Letter 2020.102.32

Cleveland, O.

Mar. 17, '99

My dear sister Edith:

Well, Mother has gone to prayer meeting and I am alone so I will cheerfully endeavor to answer your sweet letter of the 12. Edith, you do not know how I appreciated your sweet, interesting epistle, for really I had begun to think that you had forgotten your little, (or big zooty as she is now).

Yes, I know the weather. There is perfectly delightful and you, my dear, do not wish I were there any more than I, for I think

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that country is what we many properly call, "Paradise," don't you agree with me?

It pleases me to hear of you having such "gay old times." Yes, indeed I do think that the dinner the young man got up for you ladies was simply fine, a lucky woman whom gets him, you had better set your cap for him.

I don't wonder at all at the people starting the day. You all took that hay wagon ride. Wish I could have been stared at too, for I know you had lots of fun.

How nice it will be for the hotel to have a ball for

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it's guests, do you dear dance? Thanks for your kind invitation to join you and friends on your picnic. I certainly would enjoy it immensely, but might have Sister Ducant you to be careful on your sailing trips, very careful, and dont go when it is rough at all or where to many are on board, now mind dear.

I recieve at least one letter a week from dear Mabel and she insists upon my writing three times a week which it is a pleasure for me to do she says she appreciates my letters so much and I try to implore of her to come home yet, but I am afraid.

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Our pleadings are in vain. She wants John and I to come and see her this fall. I cry over her every day and it seems as though there had been a death in the family. it is so, [l?], no Edith. I don't know anything about her gentlemen friends or love affairs at all. If I did, I would make it my business to see him at once.

Edith, my dear, you are not able to take a position of that kind in a occulist office or any kind of work at all and I don't want you to do anything of the kind for you are not made to work.

Whee! Gee, if you keep on that pace of gaining six pounds in two weeks you

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will soon be looking like a "bochy," wont you? I am tickled to death over it. keep on, and you will be O.K. for I want you to surprise me when we next meet to see you looking better than I ever did, How much do you weigh now?

Yes I am losing but I am still not bony by any means. I presume it is my female trouble ^{that pulled me down} and my cough is geting awfully bothersome, especially at nights but when warm weather comes I hope to be better, I have been trying different cough remedys but give them up, yes I, am nearly well of my female trouble but dear I suffered O! so awfully no one can ever know, the reason I did not tell you dear