The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-17

LETTER FROM SALLY ATHER-
TON TO BEATRICE GRIMSHAW
Dear Bee:
I was so glad to get your letter
and know that you are so happy in
your new home. OF urs you
would be happy during your honey
moon. 1 remember that glorious
first few months with Sam, after
our marriage, and l lever expect
20 experience such dellrious happi-
ness.
At first, to come home from the
office and hurry to get some kind IF
a pickup dinner was 4 Joy, especial
ly as Sam was always hanging
around the kitchen making love to
me and clumsily trying to help.
But after a little 1 found my poor
physical machinery rebelled at The
overhours it was made to work. 1t
did not take into any consideration
that the extra time was given to a
labor of love. Labor was labor to
it. and nothing else.
More and more often l got the
dinner in paper bags and recepta-
Giles from the delicatessen on my
way home. More and more often /
neglected even to remove the con-
tents of these paper bags TO some
Of MY dainty china. Mere and more
often we ate a catch-as-catch-can
dinner from these same paper bags.
until Sam rebelled at having to get
his ham and potato salad and other
time-honored dainties Of the hur-
ried house wife from the corner gro
Gerry.
Then we tried going out for u
dinners. but after reaching home We
found usually we were too tired to
DO this. In a little while l was eat
ing my paper bag dinner in soil
tary state and usually adding to it
the salt of my tears. while Sam, on
a plea of business. stayed down
town until eight o'clock or after. and
lie usually came home with a liquor
laden breath,
Of course this will never happen
TO you, Bee. ensconced in your belu-
t.ful hilltop home with nothing to
90 except engag9 in the delightful
Tine Of spending five thousand dol
lars for beautiful things to make
your home more beautiful.
Yes, l know. dear Bee. what I
lave just written sounds enyious
and cattv. but you know 1 always
was catty, and frequently envious.
7 want YOU to know, however, that
I would not take from you one Of
your blessings. You deserve every
thing good that can be given TO
you, and I would have Won keep
them all your life. I'm just trying
10 tell you that in whatever envir-
onment one is placed. after a time
it looks to me as thoug'. the secret
orchard Of somebody else which lies
just beyond always i~ntrigues ones
fancy. That secret orchard usually
bears Gnarled and bitter fruit. but
while We are outside Of il. the
peaches and apples and pears seem
luscious.
Like all the rest Of the people out
7.de Of Hollywood. I am intensely
Interested in It's life. and I aU glad
] SHAH know it now from first hand.
Some day I may be coming out
there for q vacation. You know I
have always been more or less ~ a
gypsy. ana the California trail has
always beckoned.
You ask me to tell you about Les
lie. I know really nothing. EXCEPT
that she is staying at her fathers
home where he is. as you know,
quite III. He is getting Better, how
ever.
7 am sure that Mr.. Prescott and
leslie have had some sort Of a quar-
rel. for TO letters have come TO the
office for Mr.. Prescott with her
handwriting upon them since she
has been away. During the last
week, however. he received a tele.
gram from Mrs. Hamilton telling
him his fathcr-inlaw wanted TO see
lin. and to come and bring the
baby.
Mr.. Prescott. with the silly stub.
bornness Of a small boy. insisted 10
could not leave his business, but l
noticed after receiving a long letter
Nlth Mrs. Hamilton's -eturn address
upon it. he was much tcoubled over
something.
Copyright. 1924. NEA Service. Incj
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