The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-04
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LETTER FROM MRS. MARY AL
DEN PRESCOTT TO MRS. JOHN
ALDEN PRESCOTT.
MY DEAR LESLIE:
I'm greatly surprised that you
have not come home before this.
thought, of course, the moment your
father was out of danger you would
hurry back to your husband and son.
Surely you know that when a
woman marries her place is with her
husband, especially when her child
is also there.
cannot hold with these new-fash-
toned ideas which allow a mother to
leave and go gallivanting all over
the country. OF course know when
you are with your father you have
no responsibilities whatever, but you
certainly have already had a. good
rest, and think you should be here.
John is evidently very much over
worked. He looks worried. He has
not been nome to dinner for at least
a week. He tells me he works every
evening and it would be foolish for
him to come home just to eat. He
told me this over the phone from
his office where 1 called him up yes
terday. had not seen him for over
week and he had no time to talk
to me from his office.
Sarah. too. seems very peculiar
about little Jack. She will not let
! him come to my apartment unless
she comes with him. Z insist that
he shall come here at least once a
day, but Sarah is very arbitrary
She hangs around all the time. She
will not even let him have a cooky
when he comes to grandma's. l told
/ her when Jacks father was little
there was a cooky jar just behind the
| door and all the children in the
neighborhood were privileged to &c
to it whenever they felt like eating
We made cookies every day in the
week.
BY the way. your cook has left
Dear Priscilla Bradford is making
my coffee for me in the morning
/ and we are going out TO our lunches
and dinners. Just because dear
/ Priscilla offered to make some Bos
ton baked beans and brown bread
which / have not had since l came
to be with you. your cook got very
angry. She said she wassnot goinl
to have any one poking around hel
kitchen.
Priscilla said she thought 1t was {
good thing the cook left. as she
never had seen such disorder anC
extravaganza in her life. Why, she
said you had three different packages
of sugar in your store closet. Sh'
spoke Of this to the cook, and she
was very impudent to dear Priscilla
told her that she had no business
to come poking around your place
She hurt Priscilla's feelings t.
such an extent that the brown breat
was not a success. We could not ea
il and the beans We're burned. Prls
ella said it was all on account Of thu
cook making her so unhappy tina
she could not think Of anything ex
/ cept the servants impudence~
4 When all this happened l called
I'D John at his Office and he told ms
he would not return to the apart
ment until Priscilla had left. o
course, this put me in a, terrible 20
sition. as I could not pointedly asl
her to go, and she had said moth
ing about IT.
Miss Anderson, too, has been act
ing very strangely lately. She is no
her sunny self at all. In fact, sh'
told me yesterday that she was worI
out and would probably have to TAX
! a vacation as soon as you return.
You can see you are needed her
much more than in your father
house, where you have probabl!
every luxury.
Your loving mother.
MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc
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