Morganville
Monday, July 19

Darling,

We are sorry about the tooth. Let us know if we also have to extract $15.

Today is the first day of the Clifton Picnic. And I was going to ride a horse but you know Lloyd. He wouldn�t help us get the horse up there. Says they have to work - can�t go - those things are for grasshoppers not ants. I bet $5 they would all be there but no takers. I�m working myself today. I want out of here. No matter what we ever try to do we have to drag dead wood for several hours to clear the path. I�ll do any of that if it�s necessary but I hate to have people throw it across the road for the fun of it.

It was pure uphill getting them to pick the town they�re going to adopt but that seems more natural - We�ve picked on a little village of Feves in Alsace-Lorraine France. V.H.Y. [Velma Hahn Young] is a joy. She speaks up anyhow and is alive. So are the Millikens - Everyone else works on pulleys. So is Vance - he was here and talking. Wait until he has gone to college and really broken away.

Must get your green blouse off. Have the pants come yet? Let us know -

The letter to Phillipe Young came back today all marked up with innumerable Chinese characters and stamps and stickers. I�ve sent it to the alumni office hoping someone will be able to tell if he�s dead, disappeared or what. Too bad if he�s out of reach.

Sent the $5 to Emporia - won�t your green suit be the thing to wear so late in August to Lora�s wedding? It all depends where, how big, etc. etc. Write and ask her and let me know. Linnea is in California with her family. Vance is getting interested in Barbara again. Wish I could come to California, I mean Colorado, to meet you.

Rains every night and the mosquitoes have made the back yard uninhabitable. So I�m not getting my suntan - My my, what a lot of complaints! I�m writing again however and I hope something comes of it this time.

So Frank is sorry. Well, something has to win. If you do you will feel safer. If not, you will be better off. But talk to Joannie Swenson who went Catholic for J. Solbach. She�s very sorry. It wasn�t worth it. It�s raising kids to cross themselves that comes to irk. But I�m glad to know Frank is as nice as I first thought he was.

I�m sleepy. Read a book last night in order to be awake through what threatened to be a cyclone. Heard the clock strike 2 and the whistle again at 7 and I have to have my 14 hours of sleep or else.

How sad, or is it, that just as you get acquainted with the little girls they all go and you have to begin again? And you will now be someone�s example all your life! How do you like teaching by the way?

Oh of course the parents are important! The customer�s always right you know.

How are you for money?

I am now wearing my black linen and pretty soon I�m going down to Rit it black again. It�s rusty. Have a new green and black plaid halter dress.

Do make the horse accident good. You, of course, lifted off the tired horse? Well, be careful yourself.

Baby, tomorrow I�ll be able to think. The book I read last night was �City in the Sun� about Japanese evacuations on west coast. I�d know idea we were so ruthless.

Lots of love,

Velma