The Indianapolis times., 1924-08-29

LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIM
SHAW SUMMERS TO LESLIE
PRESCOTT

SHAW SUMMERS TO LESLIE
PRESCOTT
Dearest Leslie: 1t almost seems.
wicked and unrighteous for me to be
so happy.
Leslie. my husband, Dick, is the
sweetest, dearest person in all the
world.
| l have just read over the two SEN
! fences / have written above. and I
think 1 blushed. Anyway, I've got
ten a nice warm feeling as though
the blood had welled up from my
heart to my brain a little faster than
! it has ever done in my heart before.
This doesn't sound like the old
sensible Bee, does it? Well, I'm not
the old sensible Bee. I'm just a
blissfully happy woman who has
married the man she loves devotedly
and found in him all the thoughtful
ness and love she had expected.
Today I'm thinking of all the other
blissful brides, and hoping they are
all as happy as I am. Yet, like all
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other many times since our marriage
that no one in all the world could
ever have been as happy as we are
| 1 was awfully sorry you could not
be at my wedding. 1t SEEING a little
ungrateful to be writing this paean
OF joy to you when you are at your
fathers bedside fighting against the
grim spectre. But oh. Leslie, I want
ed to tell you all my happiness. for I
remember when you We're married
and you wrote me how happy you
were. I could hardly imagine that
what you said could be true.
We arrived In Chicago yesterday
| evening. and although I have been
here many times. even the smoky old
/ buildings and the more or less
dirty streets seem glorified to me.
This morning Dick informed me he
was going to be very busy with some
moving picture magnates all day,
and that Miss Perrier and would
have to amuse ourselves. I called
| UP her room and asked her what she
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voice that was fun OF either sad
ne or sleep. could not decide
which that she would like to go
shopping. When she said that 1
| concluded it was sleep.
We started in about an hour. I
expect that you. my dear. being a
girl who has always known wealth
and luxury. know what It Is to go
into a gorgeous shop where every
thing is found that a woman can
! possibly want to wear. and know
/ that you can buy anything you
want. have never known this in
reality I have had dreams Of such
wonderful experience, but I never
expected to be able to do It myself
or be with any one on shopping
expedition who could buy upon i'm
pulse and be sure OF not legretting
1T
Paula Perrier shopped today with
an enjoyable abandon that was as
| tonishing. Never in my widest
dreams did I think Of a woman buy
ing stockings at $40 a pair. Never
did I think Of paying $50 for rhine
stone shoe buckles to go on a s25
! pair or pumps.
Hats, coats. sport suits. lingerie,
evening clothes--Miss Perrier bought
until I felt called upon to ask her If
she had purchased nothing in New
| York.
Lots of things" she answered
with a laugh. 'I expect I have a
dozen trunks in the baggage car"
Then she grew serious for a mo-
ment.
You, of course. know" she con-
fessed. "that have only had money
enough to be extravagant for short
time, and I go on a mad orgy when I
get among such beautiful clothes as
they have here
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
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