"To my surprise I had a long letter from my Aunt Ida today. She is 87 years old -- had a slight stroke once and spent a year or more in a wheel chair; also had a cancer cured with radium. And this is what she did last week:
She took her letter to me, out to her mail-box in a pouring rain and the postman had been there, so she brought the letter back and found herself locked out of her house! She finally remembered she had put a small piece of lead pencil under one window, so went to her garage, got the step-ladder and climbed in the window! She was soaking wet, but changing to dry clothes, suffered no ill effects.
So the letter had two parts -- the second to tell me about her escapade and here I had no idea she could even get along without her wheel chair! I did not hear from her at Christmas time, so thought she must be worse." {this would be about Latons mom?LLW}
Then the letter continues about herself. {Stella} Briefly, let's see what she's doing in March, '43:
"It must be after ten, so I must go to bed. Tomorrow we have D.A.R. meeting at Mrs. Gooding's. And church services three nights in a row and Thurs. evening our Business & Profesional Circle meets, too. I have a committee meeting hours. afternoon to plan the Mystery Mother & Daughter dinner for Mar. 30th. A busy week. It was 10° below yesterday morning; 20° above this morning with snow and colder predicted."
EXPLANATIONS:
Stella/Mother is 63 at this time.
The mystery Mother Dinner concerns the Methodist "Standard Bearers" program for high school girls. Their focus was mostly on home and foreign missions pls some socializing (Stay away from boys !") Mother directed this program from about '32 to '42. Now, each girl had a "Mystery Mother" who had various secret contacts with the girls during the year; then at the May banquet the girls met their Mystery Mother.
Both Mary and Kit were in the group but at different times and didn't know each other then. The monthly meetings were at the church and at various homes as I remember.
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