March 21, 1933.

Tuesday afternoon - March 21 - 1933 

Dearest Mary: --

Any they say this is spring. Well its noy my idea of spring weather. Wasn’t Sunday a gloomy day? It was such a long day too. Dot and I wore our pajamas all day. We didn’t even dress up for evening we were both reading and no one suggested going to a show or even to Church. Mioldred went to Y.P. meeting. Rev. Riley is having special meetings on Wed. nights and Sun. nights for about six weeks. Mrs. McD and I went last Wed. eve. A minister from Syracuse was here. 

So last night Dorothy said – Does anyone want to go over to the show. There’s just enough gas in the car for a Goshen trip. So we all went and Lou also. It was Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville in “They Just Had to Get Married”. It was funny of course.

One evening last week – Fri. – I think “we” went over to Elkhart to see “She Done Him Wrong.” Mae West. Cary Grant, etc. I can’t say that I really liked it, never did care for her singing. It was supposed to be hot stuff but you had to imagine a lot of that. We were “lucky” in seeing people we knew, Bill and Blanche Botts and Mr + Mrs Frank Gary? 

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Dorothy is going over to Goshen now with Mabel Kile. She has to drive on Saturday and I was over two days last week and she came home with me. Last week she got off easy as she gave Mabel a shampoo - finger wave and a hair cut but I suppose this week she will pay her. O yes I got my permanent last Friday and is it curly. Oh boy – Think I will like it tho. It seems short now but after I wash it I don’t think it will be. 

Thursday night they are having a supper at the Church. They call it a chop suey supper but if people go for that they will be terrible disappointed. I’d call it vegetable soup. Ground meat. Potatoes. Rice. Spaghetti. Red beans and tomatoes all cooked together.  Can you imagine that? Also bread butter. Pickles. Pickled eggs. Set on table. Maybe it will be worth 15 cents tho’ of course we will not go. For 45 cents I’m sure I can have something to suit me better. 

I think I will have to make a trip to New Paris some day this week. Last Saturday night Tommy Botts and Mel were here and some one set the cushion of one of our chairs afire and we have a nice big hole in it. I am going to take it over and see if he can send it back to the factory (Mr Rohere I mean.) I said it was Tommy because I didn’t think Mel was smoking just then. We were listening to the ballgame and the kids were in dining room working jig saw puzzles when we discovered it. If we had gone off to bed and not discovered it we might have burned up. “Tough luck.” 

I washed yesterday but it was  terrible day and I saved a bushel basket of turkish towels to hang out today but this morning it was snowing so I had to dry those in the house. I just [unreadable] this P.M. 

Did I tell you that Mildread got a new pair of black pattent leather shoes I suppose you will have to get you a new pair but I wonder if it pays to buy them cheap ones. Love, Mother.