[Some paragraph breaks added for ease of reading.]Templeton, Mass.
Oct. 27, 1906Dear Sister:-
Really I have done very little & nothing important has happened to write about. Six days do not have so much news in them as seven. Mama and Auntie have been to Hubbardston four days this last week so I am getting to be an experienced housekeeper. They went yesterday so I had full sway. I got up quite an elaborate dinner I thought. I roasted pork (imagine the baby doing thusly) and cooked potatoes, made gravy and some fruit pudine (to use up some milk). Mr. Clark has given us some cucumbers so I had some. Besides getting dinner which of course was a work of time I made a cake & some jelly, washed & ironed some things & did most of the house-work & studied some. My practising had to suffer as it has had to for the last two weeks. I hope Miss B- won't come too soon though I am tired of played [sic] the same old things.
I went down to Cousin Minnie's Fri. & found Cousin Esther there. She is coming up to spend the day either Tuesday or Wednesday Cousin Minnie's sister Ida was there & I guess she thought I was you for she thought I was teaching this year.
Roger sent me a postal & Nellie gave me one so I have 202 now. I only need two more to fill my book. I went to church & heard the minister who tells stories. He was better to-day but there is room for improvement. His old style kept cropping out. I don't think "gift of gab" is a pulpit expression. Harold Cobleigh played on his violin during the prelude. He does very nicely. Bessie came to church. She was telling a very funny story. She said that the principal at Fitchburg Normal got her up in class to tell about the troubles in Cuba. She said she didn't know anything about them. He asked her if she read the daily paper[.] She said no that she only read the funny page on the Sunday Globe. I wonder how he felt.
They are going to have a farce at the Union Tues. night. Mrs Searles told me she was going to try to get her men started so I may have some fun. Thurs. P.M. the Ladies' Society have got the Unitarian minister at Winchendon to talk on "Arts & Crafts". Marion Stone told me that after supper they are going to have a Parish Meeting & discuss ministers. She says that the choice lies between the one we had to-day & Mr. Buckingham. I didn't see Linnie again. She didn't come up & as I knew Marion was there I didn't go down. Cousin Minnie told me that Mrs. Searles had a bad cold & about noon Mon. had one of her bad spells so Linnie had to do a lot of work, wash & iron three suits, get supper for the men & get her own breakfast & start off early in the morning. The men all went home yesterday over Sunday.
Mr. McNamara gave me a hundred in my Chem. exam. Isn't that wonderful? Katharine Bailey & I did not get quite that but it was so near that he gave it to both of us. We will have two periods of Chem Fridays & he made those that didn't pass take their exam. then & if any wanted to raise their marks he let them take it. The rest had two periods of laboratory work There were only five of us & we had a circus. The first of the period we were talking considerably & we didn't know but that Mr. McNamara would sit on us but he came & shut the door & let us have things our own way. Leonard Smith was in there & he hindered us as much as he could. We didn't get many experiments done that's certain.
I made some plain fudge to-day. There was just one square of chocolate in the house & when I came to use it it was wormy so I used cocoa. I don't see as it tastes any different. It is certainly eatable, to say the last.
I am reading Rob Roy & I think I would rather finish it than to write letters & I ought to write about half a dozen.
How did your Hallowe'en party come out. Did you turn your guests out by the Unitarian church? How is Jack & Hugo? Is Miss Bliss's cold better?
Helen Maynard & her baby have gone back to Phil. Persis can't come this week so I don't know what Mama will do. Did it sprinkle in N.S. THursday? It didn't stop even to pour here. I didn't have to go until 9:30 & it had about stopped raining then. Mama brought home a box of ribbons last night. There are some awful pretty red ones, wide enough for hair-ribbons. The new meat-man has arrived & he is a dandy little fellow. His name is Fitzgerald & he has been working in Gardner[.] Rena says she has known him for some time. My ideas are postively [sic] exhausted.
With love,
Molly. xx