The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-06-04
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES
COLT To LESLIE PRESCOTT,
CARE OF THE SECRET
RAVVE7R

Men are such strange creatures.
was wondering how in the world I
could gain courage to ask Jack for
money enough to pay for my trip to
New York to see Alice off when he
said to me last night, Leslie, don't
you want to go and bid good-by 70
Alice when she starts for Europe?"
II have been wanting 70 go ever
since I knew she was going abroad,
dear, but 7 was afraid we couldn't
even afford the little money I would
reed for incidentaIs. You know, of
course. dad will pay all the real ex-
penses-"
stopped abruptly for fear Jack
would be angry.
Are you crazy, child" he said
of course we can afford It. You
dent suppose 7 want your dad TO
think that I am as stingy as all that?
Check for a Hundred
He went over to my desk and
wrote me a check for hundred dol
lars. One hundred dollars when
twenty-five would have been suf-
fcient!
OF course I expect that I am
nasty horT1d thing when Jack was
so generous to me. but I could not
help but think Of the way he had
rendered me that ten dollar bill the
night before. Oh. how I wished I
didn't have to take that or the hun
dred dollar check he gave me this
morning!
One was given me because he was
in a towering rage and really wanted
to hurt me and the other was given
me because he didn't want to appear
mean in dads eyes. Neither was given
me as a privilege because he loved
me.
If had known what I do now, not
one Of those four thousand big round
dollars that mother and father gave
me would have been spent for house
hold furnishings. I would have saved
It all for my own use. Jack would
have had to furnish the house. but he
behaves as though he did not have to
furnish me any money for personal
expenses.
Makes Me Feel Cheap
It makes me feel so cheap to have
10 ask for every dollar or two when
I remember that Jack squandered his
money right and left upon me before
marriage. Then I say to myself. he
gave me in his own way what he
wanted TO give. I have learned
already that man never wants to
think that his wife has a desire that
is not first his.
The money that Jack earns is al
ways his money and when he tenders
me any of It he never thinks
Of it as my due, but as a largess
which he gives to one who IS in
capable Of taking care Of 1t without
his advice.
I wonder If I am growing morbid
ever this money question? I remem-
Der once hearing my mother advts-
Ing another woman who was going
TO sue for divorce. and the woman's
POINT of view impressed me greatly
She said, Mrs. Hamilton, I cannot
live longer on sufferance. cannot
feel that every dollar that is given
me is given grudgingly. I must feel
that the work do in keeping our
house. entertaining my husbands
friends and raising his children is
worth something in the partnership
Of marriage.
Coming for More
''I have asked my husband over
and over for an allowance and he
has always answered that I would
probably spend It IN the first three
days Of the month and be coming
to him for more. He talks to me
as though I were a child with no
idea Of the value of money and you
must remember that I earned my
own living for many years before we
were married.
This thing has affected me so that,
Mrs. Hamilton, would almost rather
my husband were untrue to me than
that I were a slave to his financial
whims."
God grant the feeling that woman