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[typed] Sunday - - Nov.8 - '96

My dearest Nannie,

If I let Sunday go by there is simply not a second all through
the week in which I can write to my Nannie and last Sunday I slept greatly to from
my astonishment from luncheon to dinner. What a quiet election! Mrs. Rice who mothers the
Sigma Rho Eta boys asked Alice Colt, Miriam & me to spend the day with
her as she would be all alone for all the boys were in San Francisco.
So we did and had a merry time. Mr Bronco stayed home to help do the
honors and he and Mrs. Rice hired a three seater & we drove to Santa
Clara & back in the afternoon & came back to a delicious chicken dinner;
in the evening Stuart Cotton unexpectedly came back from the city &
thought he had found a young ladies seminary - we played cards and went
to bed quite late. In the morning we came up to the quadrangle about
half past eight before any of the boys came back, and we heard the
glorious news of McKinley's election. At about eleven-thirty it was
announced about the quadrangle that Tom Reed was visiting the university
and would address the students in the chapel. Mr Bronco & I happened
to meet and he piloted me through the growing mob to seats in the choir
and there we waited for Mr. Reed. In the meantime Dr. Jordan asked
Prof. Powers, to give his news of the election as he has been conducting
the class in practical politics & was a _____ Bryanite, the joke
was very much on him & the students fully appreciated for they cheered
& cheered him with shouts of McKinley. Dr. Jordan as usual said the
right thing expressing his joy by saying that now he would make his
trip to Washington to report on the Behring Sea commission in a
sleeper instead of a tourist. He excused Mr. Reed who was at the stock
farm as being too tired to give any more addresses, the students mobbed the[written]
guadrangle entrance & got a few elevating words of wisdom from him.
Since then we have been having tremendously heavy work in Shakespeare
& Wordsworth to much more than take up our time.

The Jordan party was very pretty and my gown came in plenty of
time - the dearest sweetest dress I ever had, made beautifully & fitting
beautifully too. It is quite a baby waist with small puff caps & little
__shing around the neck with a bow on one shoulder and the ribbon tied
around my waist in another beautiful bow:the skirt plain with the under
skirt turned in two ruffles with a knife plated foot ruffle underneath.
It is simply dear, or dearly simple either way. The morning after I
remembered it was the last chance I had to use the San Mateo commuta-
tion ticket and as I had a lot of clean clothes for Lolie I jumped on
the train in great haste & surprised the dear child; we had a very
happy afternoon together & I came home in time for dinner. I had a
glimpse of Mrs. Jowalman on the quadrangle one day, she looked so
beautiful; & told me about seeing you this summer. Did I ever tell you
that the Sigma Rho Eta's were the old Tizia whom we dined with during
summer school? They were dissatisfied with their original charter &
have withdrawn forming themselves with a local fraternity & probably
waiting their time before applying for a very best national one. It
was a very wise thing for them to do. They have made the strongest
laws for themselves that no smoking, swearing, drinking or chewing be
allowed in their house beside several other commendable sumptuary laws-
besides not talking with the girls on the quadrangle!

The Saturday evening after Thanksgiving the girls in the Hall are
going to give a very swell dance have Mrs. Stanford & everything very
scrumptous to celebrate the game no matter how it turns out.