The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-13

LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES
COLT TO RUTH BURKE,
CONTINUED

So you see. dear Ruth, Jack and I
r just about wher eve were when
I came home to mothers.
He is absurdly jealous of Karl
Whitney. I wonder why it is that
a man is always more or less
jealous Of the man his wife refuses.
Can not he understand that she has
settled the question once for all
which man she cares for enough to
marry by choosing him?
At that moment. when my mother
came in. it just seemed to me as
though I could not go on with it
all. Ruth, why do we women have
TO keep lighting, fighting, to keep our
husbands love? Why do we have
10 flatter them by word and deed all
the time? Why is It the magazines
are always telling women what they
should do to keep their husbands
still loving them? Why don't they
sometimes tell n man what he
should do to keep his wife's love?
Why don't they make him under
stand that 1t is just as hard for a
woman as a man to keep on loving
without some announcement?
More Tears
I turned 10 my mother, and for
the life of me I could not keep the
tears back.
What is it. dear, what is it?" she
said.
Mother, I'm going to have a
baby"
rs hat what you've been telling
Jack? Doesn't he want onee'
Yes. he seemed very happy over
the news"
Then why are you crying, my
daughter?'
Because I've just received a
telephone from Karl. and Jack was
quite horrid about It,"
Karl is very silly to telephone
you. my dear. He should have real
lied that men do not talk over the
long distance telephone to other
mems wives unless they are very
much interested in them. OF course,
l know that Karl is perfectly loyal
fine in this. Why, yesterday he
called me up and talked with me
about a half hour. Long distance
telephone doesn't mean anything to
Karl, o know. He does love to
tell his troubles.
He's very much worried over
Alice, and so am 1. Leslie, make it
Up with your husband at any cost
to yourself. Nothing in the world
is worth the tears you are shedding
now. Let Tne feel that 1 do not
have to worry over you any more"
Forgetful
oh, [ expect we will make it up."
| said YEARLY. but why should he
forget instantly all about the lovely
things he had just been saying to
me? Why should the fact that Karl
Whitney was telephoning me to ask
what he should do about the letter
he had written to me blot out all
the ecstacy and unity of soul that
we had just been having? Why
should he make me feel a kind of
sordid and self-indu1gent thing who
must still be ftattered by the atten-
tons of a man l have refused to
m3rry-a man who is already mar
r1ed to my Cwn sister?
Fly implication he has made me
one of the most immoral of women
He has made me feel that he thinks
[ could be a traitor to my sister as
well as disloyal to him, to crafty
my W pride of conquest.
Mother, I al not bear 1t. Jack
will nave to make some wonderful
apology and some very fair promises
I can forgive him. This time
he has hurt my pride. and I can be
probably quite as implacable as he"
This letter is so long, my dear
that I ON going TO stop. 7 don't
know what the next hour will bring
but I will probably save that
tell you when I see you
Lovingly. LESLIE.
1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
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