South Hadley.
Feb. 5, 1908.Dear Sister:-
I am doing odd jobs to-day so among other things I will write home. Quite a number of things have happened since Sunday though probably come to write there won't be anything to write. Sunday P.M. I wrote letters in Ruth Furber's room. Later we made fudge and popped corn. The Vespers were great. Mr. Griffith, the Welsh minister, was better than in the A.M. He was almost equal to Mr. Skerrye. I stayed to hear Mr. Hammond play. He played the "Pilgrim's Chorus" and it was perfectly lovely.
I spent Monday in the Laboratory. I stopped to get my cards so that it was about 9:30 when I arrived there. I came home to lunch and did Margaret's dom. work as of course she didn't feel very well and had an exam to take in the P.M. Miss Smith is never there to lunch. Mon. toward the end we had quite an exciting time. Margaret E. and Marion Osbourne said something at the same time so they wished. Well, each was used to doing it a different way so they didn't get along particularly well. Then after the performance was over Margaret never thought & said "What did you wish? I wished I might pass my exam this P.M." We raised a shout and she was in despair for she shouldn't have told.
I got back up to the Lab. about two and worked until five & got the stuff done - all that Miss Kennedy said I needed to do. The others did more but she said that when it was good weather she & I would arrange to take a walk to-gether & she would show me the different kinds of mosses. Won't that be nice?
The girls wanted another skating carnival so they thought it would be nice to flood the lake so they took their blue pails & went out - they being perhaps a dozen girls mostly Sophomores. I had an invitation to go but did not accept. They succeeded in flooding about half of it and then it went & snowed & spoilt it all. About 9:30 I found that I ought to read more of Stevenson than I had read so I went to work & did it. I had fooled all the evening & read a short book through.
Tues. A.M. was my Eng. exam. It was the best exam I have taken. I don't imagine I did anything particularly brilliant in it but it was a good exam. I fooled around until lunch. Then I finished a letter that I started Sun. to Cousin Esther. The house was pretty quiet & I lay down & slept for about an hour. Then I studied Botany most of the time until dinner time. After dinner we went over to the Gym. & danced. The girls told me it would do me more good than to study so I went & had a splendid time. Margaret went but had to take a sit-up to get ready for her German exam.
This A.M. I went up to the Lab. to take my Botany exam. Miss Kennedy didn't give me a regular exam. She just had me write out what I had learned from the work I had done in the Lab. Mon. Wasn't she nice? I got home about 10:30 & Margaret & I set to work & cleaned house. We did every thing up in grand style - even cleaned out the closet. I did some washing. It was a case of necessity. I had to wash a napkin iron it wet so as to have one for dinner. I got some cream & sugar & Margaret, Ramona, Edith Knowlton, Grace Hoxie & I made & ate some white fudge. The house is a pretty quiet one this evening. The Seniors - a hundred and eight of them - have gone to Belchertown on a sleigh ride. They started about
twothree & probably will be backforto go to bed. Marion had been home you know. To-day at lunch Jessie had her mouth all open to say she wondered what Marion would say when she got back & found them gone when in walked Marion. Every body was delighted. My tam has gone on the sleigh ride. Mildred Gutterson has it. Ruth Taylor asked me for it for Miss G.The Juniors in Wilder are having a progressive supper. They had creamed chicken in Marion Hoyt's room, salad in another room, ice-cream in another & coffee in Dorothy Rowell's. After dinner I had the brilliant idea that we ought to serenade them but as we hadn't any songs we couldn't. The Sophomores are trying for the play to-night.
I had a letter from Bertha yesterday with her picture in it - a very minute one. She will send me her graduation one later. Also I have had letters from Aunt Ada & Elsa. I received the stockings and starch safely. Many thanks for them. The stockings were a little white but it brushed off. Your last days of school were interesting weren't they. I hope you folks are all well.
With a great deal of love,
MaryI have a couple of dirty collars so I will send them home. No hurry about them.