The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-08
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LETTERS FROM LESLIE PIlEs
DuIT 70 JOHN ALDEN PIlEs-
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BY Dear Hu1banes / know nov
that the Old mza Whg said almost a.
ths eEd ~ @ long NE. I've lad
great Deal of trouble Ia ruy life. most
q which nsvsr happened e. vas right
The things which perhaps fret -
most never happsn-
Here I've been worrying about
your being angry AZ me Jack. ever
since ! vent into business with Ruth
and you surprise me b. saying that
you are Fsrg proud o. me and pay
me All horta n compliments about
being good business WOMAN
u Il these little variations In ths
moods and character % those We
love that make ua enjoy them more
and more. am never quite sure
Jack what you viii DO next or how
you Viii do u.
] arm afraid. however. that you are
too sure Of me. that ] am too o.
pendablo perhaps 70 really be Inter
eEting. You seem 20 know that Ffvsn
a certain set Of circumstances / Will
always react IN a certain manner.
Some day I viii surprise you, dear.
By doing something totally unsT
pectnd
Dearest. you know that altho
] may make great mistakes in judE
meutA, yet / never do things that I
think would hurt or anger you. Nat.
urally, o. course. claim the right %
help a friend whenever / fell Il nee.
essary without consulting you gast
a. you have helped your friends
many times probably without con
Sulting me.
Sometimes / think u L. not the
blk troubles that mess up tas you
would call ~ the success Of married
life, but II Is the little annoyancea
that come up every day that keep
ones nerves trazzled and ones view
point warped. that makes two PEG
pie hate each other who once loved.
am very glad that you have
found out one thing by going back
home without me and that is how i'm
possible II would be 70 have your
mother live with US. She would not
DO happy for a moment nor would
she let us be happy. j have always
thought that the Puritans must have
been very uncomfortable 10 live with.
Their descendants are always 80 sure
Of their own righteousness and their
own judgments. They can become
your Judge without questioning their
own fitness in any way.
You say. dear. we will try very
hard when We get old 20 remember
how prone old people are 10 think
they know so much more than the
younger ones.
j don't blame your mother for do.
Ing what she wants 70. when she
wants to, and how she wants to, but
! DO blame her for insisting that we
should DO exactly as she thinks best
for us as well as for herself
/ think my own dear mother un.
derstRnds the viewpoint OF the
younger generation. for altho i
have said nothing 10 her about the
letter that your mother wrote me.
yet when we were talking yesterday
and suggested that she live with US
In the old house after we purchased
II, she told me she was not going TO
live with either OF her daughters.
Il know we will get along and love
each other much better II we do not
live together" she said a little apollo.
gedcaily. think mother has decid
cd 10 travel and then come back TO
live in one OF the hotels near us.
VIII you please tell Sgd that I am
going 10 write him a long letter and
1 do hope he will come over here
with you, but until / see him, he
must always remember that con
slider him my best friend.
LESLIE.
Copyright, 1924. NEA Service, Incl