(1958 April 6)
Well, dear, the Oriental rugs [from the estate of Alfred Kay] have not only arrived but are laid. Mrs. (Angel) Gray happened to be here and helped me. A big one is down in the dining room and covers almost the entire floor. We wonder if we should have it there but argue a colonist might have had a seafaring relative who had brot one back from Syria or Turkey. The one in our bedroom makes the bedspreads look just too folksy. And our slippers are all wrong. We are going to ask for some that turn up at the toe for Xmas. The scatter rugs are scattered here and there.
December 15, 2009
December 14, 2009
Glockenspiegler
(1958 April 6)
Well, MM has been pretty worried about the contest Friday and here she is unable to practice her glockenspiel. I called her band teacher who wants to look at our piano Saturday. He said she is afraid to hit the bells hard enough. She maintains no matter how hard she hits the cymbals drown her out. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Well, MM has been pretty worried about the contest Friday and here she is unable to practice her glockenspiel. I called her band teacher who wants to look at our piano Saturday. He said she is afraid to hit the bells hard enough. She maintains no matter how hard she hits the cymbals drown her out. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
December 13, 2009
Spanish by the direct method
(1958 February 11)
Como este Vd.? I have been to my Spanish class twice now and enjoy it a lot. My teacher is dark and handsome with no crew cut. We seem to progress slowly and I wish we had more in the way of a real assignment. The texts are still in the thinking stage and as there are only ten classes, I can see how beneficial they will be. But it is fun taking an academic subject and I have things here to practice on. I am no good trilling rr's.
Como este Vd.? I have been to my Spanish class twice now and enjoy it a lot. My teacher is dark and handsome with no crew cut. We seem to progress slowly and I wish we had more in the way of a real assignment. The texts are still in the thinking stage and as there are only ten classes, I can see how beneficial they will be. But it is fun taking an academic subject and I have things here to practice on. I am no good trilling rr's.
December 12, 2009
Junior High woes
(1958 February 11)
I know you are always interested in M's grades so I will enclose them. As in points A = 4 and B = 3, she tells me she thinks she is on the Honor Roll for the last 6 weeks but there has been nothing in the Oriole [school paper] or the [local] paper. I think it is so difficult to interpret these marks. The A in Singing was put on by mistake: the teacher is not supposed to give 7th graders a mark! Yet they go and they sing. She does not know why she got a C in Phy Ed except the teacher does not like the way she runs. She says there's a strut to it. Also some remark about having too much poise. Last week she was sent to the office from Math class, teacher furious because she had all her problems right but two. L had checked them over with her after she had done them alone. Miss S forbad her taking her book home again. Her gym shirt has been stolen. A bag was found in the hall containing one of her drum sticks broken to bits with a note, "Ha ha I did it again." She dropped her activity ticket at a game. It went under the bleachers and before she could get it, a boy tore it up. This goes on and on.
I know you are always interested in M's grades so I will enclose them. As in points A = 4 and B = 3, she tells me she thinks she is on the Honor Roll for the last 6 weeks but there has been nothing in the Oriole [school paper] or the [local] paper. I think it is so difficult to interpret these marks. The A in Singing was put on by mistake: the teacher is not supposed to give 7th graders a mark! Yet they go and they sing. She does not know why she got a C in Phy Ed except the teacher does not like the way she runs. She says there's a strut to it. Also some remark about having too much poise. Last week she was sent to the office from Math class, teacher furious because she had all her problems right but two. L had checked them over with her after she had done them alone. Miss S forbad her taking her book home again. Her gym shirt has been stolen. A bag was found in the hall containing one of her drum sticks broken to bits with a note, "Ha ha I did it again." She dropped her activity ticket at a game. It went under the bleachers and before she could get it, a boy tore it up. This goes on and on.
December 11, 2009
Child Life
(1958 January 2)
Here are the tree ornaments you cut out of Child Life and pasted together. At the time I surely had no idea they would last all these years. I believe you made the star in kindergarten. Hope you have a place for them on your 1958 tree.
Here are the tree ornaments you cut out of Child Life and pasted together. At the time I surely had no idea they would last all these years. I believe you made the star in kindergarten. Hope you have a place for them on your 1958 tree.
December 10, 2009
Tech talk
(1958 April)
My dress is cut with not a half inch to spare. Hardest of all is to follow printed directions. I think I can read English until I start on those. It seems unless you already know what they are trying to say, you cannot work it out from the directions.
My dress is cut with not a half inch to spare. Hardest of all is to follow printed directions. I think I can read English until I start on those. It seems unless you already know what they are trying to say, you cannot work it out from the directions.
December 9, 2009
Fair days
(1957 September, Sunday)
Saturday was a big day around here with the Fair on and all. Mary M <12> is going with another farmer, Sam Anderson, who lives beyond Premo's Orchard. He phoned me he had, with a friend Denny Coppernall, fixed up an old surrey and would call for her at 9:30 to take her to the Fair. Also call for D's girlfriend K.D. About 10:30 they pulled in the drive, the surrey drawn by a team of gigantic white work horses. Behind was tied Dolly, Sam's beautiful brown riding horse. Well, I took a lot of pictures. She was covered with confusion, poor girl. It took Sam 2 hours to go from home to fair [about 2 miles]. Daddy and I also went to the fair - in our car - and sat in the grandstand for as long as we could take it. Saw the stock auction, the 4-H club parade. Many of MM's farmer friends in this, some girls leading monster bulls, Sam on Dolly, leaders in surrey, kids with projects. Then M and friends rode back to farm where they borrowed surrey and now returned it, 2 hours. Sam and MM doubled on Dolly to Andersons. Then Sam brot her back in his car, old Ford. Today she is highly indignant because she has to spend a quiet day at home. Nearly kills her. Also Friday she was all day at fair with other friends and spent nearly $5.
Saturday was a big day around here with the Fair on and all. Mary M <12> is going with another farmer, Sam Anderson, who lives beyond Premo's Orchard. He phoned me he had, with a friend Denny Coppernall, fixed up an old surrey and would call for her at 9:30 to take her to the Fair. Also call for D's girlfriend K.D. About 10:30 they pulled in the drive, the surrey drawn by a team of gigantic white work horses. Behind was tied Dolly, Sam's beautiful brown riding horse. Well, I took a lot of pictures. She was covered with confusion, poor girl. It took Sam 2 hours to go from home to fair [about 2 miles]. Daddy and I also went to the fair - in our car - and sat in the grandstand for as long as we could take it. Saw the stock auction, the 4-H club parade. Many of MM's farmer friends in this, some girls leading monster bulls, Sam on Dolly, leaders in surrey, kids with projects. Then M and friends rode back to farm where they borrowed surrey and now returned it, 2 hours. Sam and MM doubled on Dolly to Andersons. Then Sam brot her back in his car, old Ford. Today she is highly indignant because she has to spend a quiet day at home. Nearly kills her. Also Friday she was all day at fair with other friends and spent nearly $5.
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