San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-22
The Tangle
An Intimate Story of In.
nermOst Emotions Reveal.
ed in Private Letters
LETTER FROM SALLY ATHEk.
TON TO BEATRICE GRIM
SHAW

At last l have heard the whole
story, my dear Bee, aid it would be
intensely amusing if it were not
rather tragic.
1t seems Paula Perier was called
the prettiest girl in Albany, and
that she posed for the Acme Adver-
Using Company SO often that she was
known as The Acme Girr' TO all
their clients. In Albany, however,
she was known as Jack Prescott's
little playmate.
They were always together and he
seemed proud to be seen with her in
all public places.
Everyone seemed to think she
adOred him.
All at once, greatly to the surprise
Of everyone, his marriage was an
nounced to Leslie Hamilton. He
brought his bride home very soon and
Paula disappeared.
1t is now whispered that the child
which the Prescotts have adopted
was placed upon its fathers door
step by Paula herself. A nice. little
story, isn't it? How much of gossip
and now much of truth is in it, l do
not know.
Just 10 see what Mr.. Prescott
would say after l heard this story, |
handed HIM a poem the other day. L
cut it out of a magazine.
When John Alden Prescott (rather
distinguished name, isn't it. Bee?l
read that poem called The Law of
Love- he sat for a long time saying
nothing.
l went on polishing up and re-
tipping some copy as though my Curl
osity were not almost unbearable.
At last he turned and asked abrupt
ly, why did you give me that
poem?" .
Il thought it very interesting if
true. and | really wanted to get n
mans reaction on it." John Prescott
frowned at this.
/ thought he was going to tell me
/ was mixing psychology with bust
ness. Instead he said, "What do
you think about it?'
ITO tell you the truth" / an
swered, q do not think that the
faculty of having many loves is ex-
clusively masculine"
Don't you?" he asked in surprise.
"Oh, yes, / know that has been
;
proclaiming the fact that a man can
love many times Sainte-Beuve, VINO
was considered the great lover of his
time, said: "A woman cannot love
twice. Her nature is to tender TO
endure a second time the terrific emo
tional earthquake This is what one
would expect from the French poet
and egotist. and l have come to be-
lieve that it is what all men think.
"Your masculine pride will not al
low you for one moment to believe
that the many women who have loved
you could again feel the tender pas
sion for any other man."
"For a woman who pretends to be
most indifferent to my sex, Mrs. AtL-
erton," remarked John Prescott rather
sneeringly, you seem to have thought
a great deal about love-"
Not more than any other person
born into this Gale of tears" l an
swered eomposedly. "A woman mag
be curious about love and apathetic
about lovers, you know.
women know one thing. Mr..
Prescott, and know it thoroughly, and
that is that love is the most transit
| tory thing on this earth.
"Men on the contrary lie to them
selves, as they want to be convinced
that each love is eternal. With every
man theareal indomitable love is the
love of the moment. Be it one, two
or three-it. and it only, is genuine.
All the preceding ones are meres;
infatuations.
"Women, too, believe that each love
that comes to them-be it first or
last or those that lie between-is the