1919 5 26 Olive Rose to Florence Rose

This is the last letter that I have, as of now, dated 1919.  The next letter is dated 1923.  I will correct some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The location is Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York.

My grandmother, 'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack wrote this letter when she was 10-years old to her sister, 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Beatrice' May Rose Camp is their sister and 'Clifton' Rose, their brother.  'Papa' is their father, Elbert Rose.  'Grandma' is their maternal grandmother, Alice Estelle Clayton More.

Catskill Mountains
Pine Hill, N.Y.
May 26, 1919

Dear Florence,

Grandma received your letter some time ago.  Martha Hendricks came the other day and took the things out of the clothes room at the head of the stairs.  So, now we have a clothes room.  Papa doesn't intend to rent the whole house.

Beatrice is going to work at Mrs. Hezekiah Gossoo's this summer.

Papa says Mrs. Housman will give you $7.50 a week.  What place would you rather work?

Clifton has a working certificate that he goes dancing around with.  He is going to try some regents.

We haven't been to church or S.S. yet.

Beatrice has gone a visiting to the Shoemaker's and hasn't come back yet.  She can't go to school.  Please excuse the above.  I spoiled the pen.

Write soon
Olive

1919 4 27 Olive Rose to Florence Rose

I will change some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The location is Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York.

My grandmother, 'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack wrote this letter, when she was 10-years old, to her sister 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Beatrice' May Rose Camp is their sister and  'Papa' is their father, Elbert Rose.  'Aunt Lin' is Elbert's sister, Malinda Rose Townsend.

I have included a photograph of the school my grandmother attended in Pine Hill and transcribed the words she had written on the reverse side about 1925-1926.  I believe she intended the words for her fiance'/husband, my grandfather, Walter Schnack.  'Dot' was his nickname for her.

Pine Hill, N.Y.
Apr. 27, 1919

Dear Florence,

We got to school all right that morning.  Elsie Smith went with us. We have to get a new English book.  We would have had to get a geography book but John Lasher had one.  We traded our Barnes with him.  We got a spelling book and arithmetic, second hand.

I don't like the school one bit.  Mr. DeSilva is lazy.  He doesn't explain anything.  We are way behind.  We won't pass sixth grade this June.  The exams are 13,14.  There are only fifteen (15) pupils upstairs.  I guess there isn't twenty five (25) in the whole school.  It is dirty.  Last year's calendar is hanging

up.

Friday, I almost froze it was so cold.  Friday afternoon, as we were eating dinner, I got up to get a drink of water and I heard a noise.  I asked Papa what it was and he said it was some kid rolling a cartwheel over the sidewalk.  It kept up till

it was time for us to go to school.

Then Papa put on his coat and came.  He saw a number of people going down toward the lake.  He went down but Beatrice and I were going on to school when we met some girls we knew and we went down, too.  When we got to

the lake, we saw smoke coming from a house.  After we went further, we saw blazes coming from the top of a house.  Do you know where "The Wayside Rest Poultry Farm" is?  Well, that was the house that was afire.  It is in from the road this side of the "New Mountain

Inn".  Papa was down, he helped fight the fire.  Two boys went in to the side where there wasn't any fire and broke out 2 window lights.  The men didn't succeed in putting the fire out until it was almost burned down.  An old lady lived there all alone.

Friday morning it was so cold our water froze up.

Papa & Beatrice walked over to Aunt Lin's today.

Beatrice says she will write next time.

Write Soon
Your Sister
Olive

Written on the reverse side:

This is where I went to school a long time ago.  It is also the place where we often camp & where I hope you & I may go sometime.  Dot.

Below that, most likely at a later date, she wrote Pine Hill.

1919 3 16 Beatrice Rose to Florence Rose

I will change some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The locations are Kingston and Pine Hill, both in Ulster County, New York.

This letter was written by 'Beatrice' May Rose Camp when she was 12-years old, to her sister, 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack was their sister and 'Clifton' was their brother.  'Papa' was their father, Elbert Rose. 'Aunt Addie' was Elbert's sister Ada Rose Woolheater.  'Bessie' was her daughter who was married to James 'Jimmie' Winfield.  'Eva' was another of Ada's daughters.  'John Rose' and 'Ward Rose' were their cousins, sons of William Rose, a brother of Elbert's.  'Grandma' was their mother's mother, Alice Estelle Clayton More and 'Aunt Hattie' was Alice's daughter, Harriet More Burgett.

I don't have 'Aunt Lib', 'Aunt Melissa', 'Uncle Dewitt', or 'Uncle Billy' in my tree yet.  Please leave a comment if you can help me with identification.

72 Clinton Ave.
Kingston, N.Y.
Mar. 16, 1919

Dear Florence,

I have had a very hard time to get Papa to send you money but have succeeded.

I have a new dress.  It is plain blue with pique collar and cuffs and pocket.  It was $3.97.  I think that was very expensive but I couldn't get one any cheaper in the size that I had to have.  Mine is size 16.  Bessie got it for me. At first, she got one size 14 and the

length was just right but I couldn't wiggle in the waist.

Aunt Lib and Aunt Melissa and Uncle Dewitt were down here Friday and Aunt Lib said that she would come and see Aunt Addie when the girls went away.

I told you before that Papa was up to Pine Hill.  And when he was going up on the train, he met Aunt Melissa.  And, she was asking him where Bessie was and where Jimmie was and he

told her.  And, she said, "Bet they have parted" and then she went on to tell about Jimmie (all the mean things she could think of) and of course Papa let it go in one ear and out the other.  And, when she came to Kingston, she went into where Bessie is working and asked her what the matter was; why Jimmie and she were parted, and Bessie was astonished.  And then, Aunt Melissa told her that Papa had told her that

Bessie and Jimmie was parted.  And, Bessie told Eva and they were both mad at I and Olive and Papa.  And, when she came home, they told Aunt Addie and she said that she didn't believe it.  And, Bessie and Eva both said that they believed it.  And then, we told Papa and he told all about it and I don't think Bessie and Eva believed it.

We had an arithmetic test. Olive got 55% and I got 70%.  I think that isn't very good.  Bessie had stopped taking short-

hand and is working at McBrides drug store in town.  Her hours are from 9 to 12, from 2 to 6, and from 6 to ten; quite long hours.

John Rose was here this afternoon and he said that he was going to get married in a couple of months to Eva Barton.  She is a real nice girl.  She has John to Sunday School almost every Sunday.  We haven't missed a day since we started to go.

Did you know that I have a locket?

It is real nice.   It is real good.  I am going to make a picture of it so you can see how big it is.  It didn't draw very good.  One side is higher than the other.  Then, there is a long chain with it, too.

When Papa went to Pine Hill, he found your report card.  It had been there a long time so I will try and send it back to you.

I got a very nice folder from

Aunt Hattie and I haven't written to her.  I suppose she thinks I am awful.  Well, I don't blame her.  How is Grandma?

I think that we will go to Pine Hill Easter.  Papa wants to go for a week but, what I am thinking about is, where will we stay.  I don't like the idea of sponging around on the neighbors for a week.  Would you like to?

Well, how many times have your worn your new blue serge skirt?

Papa is talking of getting another job.  He doesn't like it very good where he is.  He isn't getting very good wages, in his mind.

But, I don't like the idea of him roaming around so much.  Do you wish he would hurry up and get settled?

And, Aunt Addie is talking of moving just as quick as she can find another house.  We are going to move.

When was the last time you heard from Clifton?  We haven't heard from him since

we sent him the money; only what Papa said about him.  They are having some more dancing up there.  We saw Uncle Billy down here one day.  Well, it was last Saturday, a week ago from yesterday.

You know that we have a new theatre down here with some style to it, too.  The name of the place is _____.  They have men all dressed up in a fancy costume to help the ladies out of the cars; those that come in a taxicab.

It was a week ago yesterday

that I was to the opera house and yesterday, for 10¢, a kids matinee.  Every Saturday there is one.

Ward Rose was here the other night from Schenectady with a Ford taxicab.  Eva and Jimmie and Aunt Addie were all ready to go to the movies; so he took them for a ride to the movies.  Wasn't he good?

Well, it is after nine o'clock so will have to close for tonight.

Write Soon.
Good Night
Your Sister
Beatrice Rose

  This clipping was not included in the letter.  It was published 2 May 1919 in the Kingston Daily Freeman newspaper.  I include it here simply because of the mention that John Rose intended to marry Eva Barton.

1919 3 4 Olive Rose to Florence Rose

I will correct some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The locations mentioned are Kingston, Ulster County, New York; Durham, Greene County, New York; and Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York.

Although this letter is not signed, I believe it was written by my grandmother, Olive Letha Rose Schnack when she was 10-years old, to her sister, 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Papa' is their father, Elbert Rose.  'Aunt Addie' is Elbert's sister, Ada Rose Woolheater.  Their maternal Grand 'Uncle Owen' was Owen Wickes More.   Their maternal Aunt 'Hattie' is Harriet More Burgett. 

I don't know who 'Julia' is or how she is related to the sisters.  If you have any thoughts about her, please leave a comment.

72 Clinton Ave.
Kingston, N.Y.
Mar. 4, 1919

Dear Florence,

We received your letter today.  Now Florence, I will tell you why I didn't write Sunday.  I went over to Carter's (almost) and when I came home, I sat down and was going to write.  And, I had a lot of trash written.  Then, I asked Beatrice to finish.  She said I had told all the news she would have written.  Now, that is the reason.

I have a plan.  It is that I write some on a letter every day and send it to you on Friday.  Now, isn't that a good plan?  I received a letter from Uncle Owen Saturday.  He wants us to come out to Durham next summer and hire one (1) of his houses, but I like your plan best.  Papa says if he can get all the the wages he wants, that is just some more, he will stay to Carter's.  But, I don't see how that would hinder us.  I don't know whether we are going to stay here all summer or not.  I am going to Pine Hill for my Easter vacation.  We had a fire drill this after-

noon and this afternoon I got a hundred percent (100%) in arithmetic, too.  A girl asked us to join the Girl Scouts but Papa said we couldn't.  Papa is going to send you some money.

They say here that Beatrice is getting fat so she was going to stop eating.  But, when dinner time came, we had such a good dinner, she ate.

Mar. 5, 1919

I got up before Aunt Addie did and studied my history lesson and geography.  I am getting along fine in school.  Uncle Owen said about my watch and being a teacher.

Mar. 6 & 7, 1919

When I go up to Pine Hill in April, I am going to get Hattie & Julia (the rag dolls).  Well, I will have to close for now.  I have to help with the dishes.

1919 2 22 Beatrice Rose to Florence Rose

I will change some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  Kingston, New York is in Ulster County.

'Beatrice' May Rose Camp was 12-years old when she wrote this letter to her sister, 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack was their sister and Clifton Rose their brother.  'Papa' was their father, Elbert Rose.  'Aunt Addie' was Elbert's sister, Ada Rose Woolheater. 'Bessie' Woolheater Winfield and Eva Woolheater were Ada's daughters.  'Odell' was their cousin, a son of their father's brother, William Rose.

I haven't discovered yet the identity of 'Aunt Cora.'  Please offer your suggestions in the comment field at the end.  Also if you know what an 'optic' was.

72 Clinton Ave.
Kingston, N.Y.
Feb. 22, 1919

Dear Florence,

I received the cards and was very glad to get them.  I have broken the rules already.  You know I was to write every Saturday and I didn't last Saturday.  I started one at night and finished it Wednesday.  But, it was written with pencil and I thought you would think that I was lazy.

It is two o'clock now and I have been busy ever

since I got up.

Bessie washed the dishes for breakfast and Olive and I dried them.  I dusted in the parlor and then cleaned the bath-room and then Bessie and I went out shopping on Broadway.

Papa wrote to Clifton last Sunday night and sent him a dollar.  I was to Sunday school last Sunday and the Sunday before.

Last Saturday, Papa took Olive and I up to Stelles (the store on the corner of Wall and John Sts.) and bought us each a new pair of shoes.

Mine are patent leather bottoms and button cloth tops.  And, Olive's are just plain leather.  They both cost $1.98 and Papa bought me a pair of arch supports and they cost $1.57 and the whole thing came to $5.51.  Bessie thought that Papa got a bargain.  They had a sale and that is how we happened to get them so cheap.

We are not going to get the optic anymore.  Ed Tompkins said that it wasn't appreciated.

I saw Abbey _alace.  I think it was Wednesday she said that George Moorey was down here.

I have seen her once before with Aunt Cora's sister.

Valentine's Day was Aunt Addie's Birthday and Eva gave her the loveliest cake.  We had a surprise party and we were all in the other room.  And, Eva and Bessie got every thing ready.  And, when we came out, there sat the cake and two plates of sandwiches, beef, and coffee.  And Oh!  That cake, it was just grand.  It was round and as big as a little dishpan.  And, we had ice cream bricks; all but Aunt Addie.  She had 

vanilla as she don't like chocolate or strawberry.

We had school Valentine's Day and from half past two to twenty minutes after three, we had exercises.  And, yesterday we had exercises from 2:30 to 3:20.  Oh, I just love to have exercises.

Bessie is taking a course in short hand at Spencer's College.  Olive got a card from Aunt Hattie and she said that she had sent me a card, but I didn't receive it.

You know, up to the ten cent store where Eva is working, they got some goldfish in and Eva bought three and the 

loveliest big bowl.

I think that I will try and get Papa to get me a pair of stockings as I need a pair awful much.  And, these old shoes are getting worn out.  And, the lining is wearing out and it makes holes in my stockings.

I told you before that Odell had a sore throat, didn't I?  Papa was here yesterday a little while and he told Aunt Addie that he took Uncle Will home Thursday night sick.  And, he could hardly breath.  And yesterday, Aunt Addie said that the doctor

said he would be alright in a few days.

I suppose you had a great time Valentine's Day.  I am sure I did over to school.  We made a Valentine's box and made Valentines to put in it.  I got one from the teacher, Miss Fitzgerald, and two or three from a girl school friend, Alice Hunter.

Well, I will close and write a longer letter next time as I can't think of anymore to say.

Goodbye
Beatrice

P.S.
You know the last letter

I wrote cost me six cents.  Sunday night, I put it in the mailbox and Monday noon I got it back without any stamp.  It is lucky that I said where it was from. 

1913 9 11 Beatrice Rose to Olive Rose

I thought I had a picture of Mrs. Elmendorf's house to include with the last post.  I didn't find it but came across another postcard...really just a birthday card, but I want to include it with my correspondence files.

The location is Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York.  'Beatrice' May Rose Camp was wishing a happy 5th birthday to her sister, 'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack.

Addressed to Miss Olive L. Rose in Pine Hill, N.Y.

Best Wishes
for Your Birthday
from
Sister Beatrice
Sept. 11, 1913

1919 2 8 Beatrice Rose to Florence Rose

I will change some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The location is Kingston, Ulster County, New York.

'Beatrice' May Rose Camp wrote this letter when she was 12-years old to her sister 'Florence' Alice Rose Lawler.  'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack was their sister and 'Clifton' Rose, their brother.  'Papa' was their father, Elbert Rose.  'Bessie' Woolheater Winfield was the girls' cousin and 'Marjorie' was Bessie's daughter.  'Minnie' Rose Springer was Elbert's sister; as was  'Aunt Addie', Ada Rose Woolheater, who was the mother of Bessie.  'Ella' Baker More is the girls' maternal aunt.  I believe the 'they' referred to in the letter is Harriet More Burgett and Alice Clayton More who have traveled cross-country to California.

Please leave a comment should you wish to share a thought about this letter.

72 Clinton Ave.
Kingston, N.Y.
Feb. 8, 1919

Sat. morning

Dear Florence,

Did you ask me any questions?  I can't find your letter anywhere so I think that it must have been in the waste paper basket and was thrown out.

Well, I got a letter from Clifton today and he sent me his percents.  I will send it to you and let you see it.  And you know that George Moore is home and Lizzie Krum and Mildred White is home, too.

Olive sent him a 10¢ tablet, 5¢ pencil, an eraser that we had, 1¢ pen and a pen holder that we

had and a penny pad that Olive got just for fun.  He said he was very glad to get it.

He said he thought that we might have the influenza.  There are five people up there that have it.  Almost every house has got a sign on it for diphtheria.  There are 97 cases of influenza and over a hundred cases of diphtheria.

I passed everything but geography but I got promoted just the same.  You know that you can miss three subjects and pass just the same down here.  Can you up there?  Did Clifton tell you that he could dance?

Sat. afternoon, half past three

Well, I have been so busy today.  This morning, I started this letter and then Bessie came home and wanted me to help her.  And, I have been busy ever since.

Bessie and Marjorie came Sunday afternoon.  Marjorie is four years old.  She is just as cute as she can be.  And, sometimes when she gets cross, Bessie will whip her and it almost makes me cry.  She will look so pitiful toward me and then her mother.

You know the bedroom we

slept in?  We are in the other room now sleeping.  And, Bessie & Marjorie sleep in the other room.  And, we put our clothes in a drawer in the dresser out in the hall.  And, what we couldn't get in there, we put in the trunk.

We got a letter from Minnie Tuesday.

Florence, do you remember telling Aunt Lib when you were up there, about what we told you that Mrs. Elmendorf said, "About that, we would have another boss now".   Well, that made her mad and she wouldn't come back again.  She said, "I won't go down there again while

they live there with that old devil".  Minnie Donovan said that Augusta began teaching school Monday.

Oh say, I found your letter this morning while I was working.  It was in my trunk.

Yes, I forgive you for not answering my letter in so long a time because you wrote me such a long one when you did write.  And, I knew that you were having examinations so I forgive you.

Obed Cure and Fred Blodget were over to Carter's the week before last after Papa and they went out on a, I don't know what you

call it.

Yes, we went to the movies.  I have been almost every Saturday.  But, today I couldn't go.  But, if Olive had wanted to, I could have gone because Olive went downstairs and dusted for Mrs. Elmendorf.  And, she gave her 10¢.  Wasn't that nice?

Yes, I will do that if you want me to about writing every week; and, you can write whenever you have time, but let it be often.  Will you?

Say, why don't they write to us?  They said they would.  We can't write to them

because they don't know how long they will be in on place.  And, anyway, you didn't say what place they were at.

The weather has been fine here for a long time but today it has been trying to snow.  Not very much, though.  We have only had one snow storm this winter and there isn't a bit of frost on the ground.

I have tried to get Papa to get you some money but he won't.  He is as tight as he can be.  He won't ever send Clifton some.

Clifton is going to join the Boy Scouts, too.

Oh!  Say, you didn't say

anything about Aunt Ella's letter or whether you got the dye or not.  We sent it a long time ago.

Well!  I will go and get a pail of coal for Aunt Addie and then I will finish this.

I have got it.

I have got to write to Clifton and Minnie.  Minnie's letter came Tuesday morning and yours came Friday and Clifton's came today.  And, I have to write to Aunt Ella, too.

Well, I can't think of anymore to say this time.  I think it's long enough.

With Love
Your Sisters
Beatrice and Olive

1919 2 6 Harriet Burgett to Olive Rose

I will correct some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  The locations are Sebastopol, California which is in Sonoma County and Kingston, New York in Ulster County.

'Aunt Hattie' is Harriet More Burgett.  She writes this postcard to my grandmother, 'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack.  'Beatrice' Rose Camp is her sister. 

Mrs. S.H. Burgett
Sebastopol
Calif.
Route 4 Box 20

Dear Olive,

I sent Beatrice a card from Altoona, Iowa so will send you one this time.  How are you both and your father?  We arrived here at Sebastopol, Saturday evening, Feb 1st.  It is nice and warm here.  Is it very cold there?  You and Beatrice must write me a long letter soon.

Love,
Aunt Hattie

1919 1 24 Beatrice Rose to Florence Rose

I will change some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.  Kingston, New York is in Ulster County.

'Beatrice' Rose Camp wrote this letter when she was 12-years old to her sister, 'Florence' Rose Lawler.  'Olive' Rose Schnack was their sister and 'Clifton' Rose was their brother.  'Papa' is their father, Elbert Rose.  Elbert's sister, 'Aunt Lin' is Malinda Rose Townsend.  'Aunt Addie' is Ada Rose Woolheater, another sister of Elbert's. 'Eva' Woolheater and Bessie Woolheater Winfield are Ada's daughters.  'Margie' Winfield is Bessie's daughter Marjorie.  'Grandma' is Alice Clayton More.  'Aunt Ella' is Ella Baker More, Alice's daughter-in-law. 'Uncle Will' is Elbert's brother William Rose. 

72 Clinton Ave.

Kingston, N.Y.

Jan. 24, 1919

Dear Florence;

There is no school this afternoon as there are commencement exercises down to the High School.

We didn't have any examinations down here.  Our everyday work counted for promotions.  All of the sixth grade got promoted and we will go in another room tomorrow.  I got promoted although I didn't pass in geography.  I got 66 2/3 and 2/3 counts one or 67.  My class standings I counted out to be

60.  When I told the teacher, she said she didn't believe me; that I would have to figure it over again but I didn't.

I have just got my dishes done and Olive dried them and now Olive is taking the carpet off the stairs.

Say Florence, did you think that we were not going to write at all?  I will tell you how it happened.  Last Sunday, Olive wrote a letter to you and Clifton and Aunt Lin.  And, of course, I thought they had been sent. Last night Papa was here and he asked if we had got a letter from you.  And then, Olive happened to

think that she had not sent them.  Every day through the week, I kept asking Aunt Addie if we had any mail and wondering why you didn't write.  When I heard her say that last night, I was mad to think that we hadn't written.

Eva, Jeanette and Al, Jean's beau, went to Poughkeepsie on Tuesday.  Eva bought Jimmie a bag of chocolate; and, Aunt Addie and Olive and I, a great big bag of hard candy.  Jeanette bought herself a dandy new spring hat; black straw with a little blue feather on each point.  It was a shape of a triangle.  It was beautiful.

Perhaps you saw Eva's shoes that I think were in the closet in your bedroom.  Anyway, they had low heels, brown cloth tops and brown leather bottoms.  Eva gave them to Olive and Papa had them taped and the heels straightened.  They make her a dandy pair of shoes to wear for best but Eva said for her to wear them to school.

I haven't had my teeth fixed yet and they need it pretty bad.  I am not going to have that double tooth crowned because it is too far gone but the two front ones I am going to have filled with gold.

Don't you think that will be alright?

I have not heard from Grandma yet, have you?  When I do, I will thank them for the things.  It was very nice of them.

I suppose you will be glad to get a letter written on good paper, although, the writing isn't very good.  Florence, if you knew how nervous I get when I try to write a letter, you wouldn't expect me to write at all.  I have written so much over to school in a hurry and it simply spoils my writing.  Now when I try to write a letter good, my arm aches so.  But I will have to

get used to it.

Bessie and Margie, Bessie's little girl, are coming up here to stay quite a long time. Bessie's husband, Jim, is going out west and work.

Oh say!  While I think of it.  How long is Grandma and the rest of them going to stay out there?

We, I mean Papa, got a letter from Clifton yesterday.  He said that they butchered Murray's pig and Kate cried.  He said that he laughed right in front of her.  And, he said that the chimney caught on fire up on the farm and the house came near to burning up.  He told Papa to get his furniture insured.  And, some boards came near burning into (we don't know exactly what he means by that) and that Obed cut his leg down to the bone.  And, Papa said, "I wouldn't have cared if he had cut it way off."  Clifton told you about the boy staying at Obed's by the name of John Lasher.  He told Clifton that when the chimney was on fire, that the bricks were red hot.  And, that John Lasher drove the team all over and that they came near to running away from him.

Of course I don't believe in dreams but, it was just a few days, or nights, I mean, that I dreamt that the house came near burning up.

And you know, when I read that letter it made me awful homesick and I don't know why.  I didn't get to sleep till about twelve o'clock.

I think maybe that Olive and I are going to the moving pictures tonight.  I think maybe that Papa will be over tonight and take us all.  Or, if he doesn't come, then Eva is going to take us.

We just got a letter from Aunt Ella today (this afternoon).  She said it was storming up there.

It rained very hard here last night but today it is funny.  The sun

will shine for a minute and then go under the clouds.  It snowed just a little this morning but all it's doing now is the wind is blowing quite hard.

Uncle Will isn't working now.  He has been quite sick.  It is his kidneys now.  The doctors say he'll be alright if he doesn't have the Dropsy.

Since you went away, Aunt Addie has got herself a dandy new coat.  It is something like Jeanette's coat only it has black seal fur collar and cuffs.  And, Eva has a new suit with a black seal collar.  It is wine colored.  She paid $39.00 for it.

And, Jean has got her a new blue serge dress and a new $10.00 pair of brown

shoes.  And, I forgot to tell you that Eva got her a new pair of shoes with kid tops and patent leather bottoms.  And, Olive has gotten a new blue velvet hat with streamers on it.  It was on sale.  It was a two dollars and 87 ($2.87) hat and they got it for a dollar ninety-eight ($1.98).  I didn't get anything new.  Isn't that a shame?

Jimmy gave Olive and I each a stick of gum this noon.

I think if I can get Aunt Ella's letter in with this, in an envelope, I will send it to you and let you read it if you will send it back.  I think you will like to read it.

None of us have been uptown since we got your letter so we couldn't get the dye, but we'll try and send it the fore part of the week.

I forgot to tell you that Eva got her a dandy black seal muff to match Aunt Addie's and her coat.  I mean the fur on their coats.  It is Hudson seal.

You know, while we were washing dishes, Olive thought of a plan.  She said that if anyone slapped faces or pulled hair or quarreled, that they would get shut up in the clothes press and locked in for 15 minutes.  I wouldn't do it

and she got mad and undressed and went to bed.  She went upstairs and we didn't know where she was.  I went upstairs to see where she was.  She had made the bed and was in her night gown, and the window up a little ways.  I told Aunt Addie and she told me to shut the window.  I covered her up and shut the window and it was just two minutes after I was down, that she came down and said she wasn't asleep at all.  Well, will close with love.  If you write just as long a letter as I do, you will do good.

Beatrice