The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-24
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LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIM
SHAW TO RICHARD SUM.
NIERS

] am sending this letter to YOU in
Chicago, dear Dick, because 1 could
not explain by wire just why I was
not going to meet you.
In the first place. Dick, you don't
particularly want to see me. You
want to see Paula Perier. You should
know, however, that I do not care to
see Paula Perier. She is nothing TO
me, and / know without seeing her.
from the things 1 have read between
the lines Of your letter, the things
which you did not intend to tell me,
but which stood out palmer than what
you really wrote That is, that you
want me to meet Miss Perier so that
1 may sec how irresistible she is.
Credit Given
All this / know, dear Dick ] give
you credit for being loyal, as men
look upon loyalty. I give you credit
for hating to hurt me, but I also
know that you have met a very beau
tiful woman of a kind you have never
known before. and she has swept you
right off your feet
am not sure that, even had you
never met her, you and I would be
happy together out there In Holly
wood where you will probably make
your home in the future. This, dear
Dick, is not because I could not adapt
myself TO the life Of Hollywood, which
is probably not so much different
from the life anywhere else, if we
only knew 1t, but because you would
oil 70 -
Hollywood. or the life of your Bohe-
milan friends, wherever we might live.
You have put me on a pedestal.
Dick; you have made me something
very impossible. very cold.
I wonder how many women who
have been raised to a pedestal in
their husbands minds have hated
and despised that cold. narrow place
in the walls Of mans affections
All Alike
l know enough about my sex. Dick
to understand that we women are all
more or less alike. II the men who
marry us would treat us with the
same frankness the same sincerity
that they do the Paula Periers and all
to from us there probably would not
be so many divorces.
I am bidding you goodby. Dick
Don't try to see me. It would be
foolish Of you to come way up here
in Minnesota just for the sake OF
narrowing your soul and mine with
a conventional parting. And now
am going to be Just human enough.
dear Dick. to tell you that even il
Miss Perier returns your love you will
not be any happieh with her than you
would have been with me.
You are thoroughly lmbued, my
dear. with the idea that no one WON
an can be all things to one man
II YOU marry Paula Per.er after the
first flush OF the honeymoon is over,
you will miss finding in her the calm
ness and quiet affection which you
think only I can give you.
Wrong, Wrong
OF course you are wrong, Dick
Either one Of us could probably give
yoA everything you desire If you
ask It of us, but you never will. From
Paula you will ask the fire and al
ways be seeking the GOODNESS and
sanity which you remember are mine
OF me you have received the content
and comfort of an everyday au-round
woman, but you would never think Of
appealing to me In any great emo
tional stress. I am afraid you will
never he happy. Dick. under any cir
cumStances. BEATRICE
(Copvright 1924. NEA Servicef Incl
T0M0RROW-Leslie Precott adds
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dent ended.