San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-13
LRETTER FROM LESLIE PRES.
COLT TO ALICE HAMILTON
DEAR LITTLE SISTER:


have been intending to write to
you for the last few days but after
one has been i'll quite time things
get at skies and sevens if you are the
one who has been running the
house.
There is so much want to say TO
you, dear, that i don't know where
TO begin. | wonder if you appreciate
what wonderful time you are hav.
ing. practically doing just what you
please. When mother let me 60
abroad / went with n whole lot of
other girls and we had two old maid
school teachers who kept strict
watch over us. One always went
ahead in the Louvre and came back
to explain that We couldn't go into
certain rooms for fear we would see
the nudes.
And here you are. over in Paris.
going anywhere you please. AL
though you haven't told me | have a
bunch that you have been pleased to
go to Montmartre and all through
the Latin Quarter with only very
lonely young man TO pilot you and
Bette around.
Alice. dear, l note what YOU say
about Karl's being mere Intellectual
and hav:re more heart nId mere
yconey than jack, consequently yoT
wondered why l loved JtCk. Al
though l DO not Assem-. 10 any of your
contentious, yet If they were all true
l would probably be loving Jack just
the same.
One thing you haven't learned yet.
little sister, which is probably be-
cause you have never been in love.
When you do fall in love you will I'M
derstand people do not love other
people because they are intellectual ;
because they are brilliant; because
they are handsome or because they
are even kind. You just fall in love.
That's all. my dear.
Sometimes think the old phil
osophic idea of Empedocles. Of mat
ural love-" by which he means those
sympathies which attract stone TO
the earth and make rivers flow TO
the sea, can be applied TO men and
women. Two people just naturally
gravitate 10 each other. 1t is a
chemical affinity-the thing that
make axygcn attract hydrogen.
Anyway, you cannot give any better
reason.
You may so on and on for long
time. People may think they love
you. You may think You love others.
Because some chemical force in YOU
seeks 10 unite with some chemical
force in another. you may think you
are in love. but you soon find out in
neither is that force attractive
! enough to overcome certain thoughts
and idiosyncrasies and the thrill
dies.
All at once two people meet. Ev'
cry force within one seeks and unite'
with the similar force in the other
At last you know love.
These two persons need not ever
he of the same tastes. They may
dislike each other very much. still
they will be what people generally
call lin love with each other
! IL is queer sort of feeling. m,
dear. Sometimes man or woman
never attains real love. They accept
substitutes. 1t is very probable il
| had not met Jack | woulG never
have known the love l felt for Kar
was not the real love, the great Low,
that now fills my life. l would prob
ably have married Karl.
As il was. the moment | saw Jack
I was taken directly off my feet And
now that | have my little home. my
husband and my baby. l am afraid
it is all too good TO be true. Honest
ly. Alice. I wake up in the middle
Of the night my heart going pitapat
and seem TO be waiting for some
thing TO enter into my Eden and lay
it waste. 1 have been and am Sc
happy.