A Letter Written on Apr 1, 1907

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Templeton, Mass.,
April 1, 1907.

Dear Sister:-

Don't be alarmed because this letter is late for Mama wanted to write and didn't get around to it yesterday and so I thought I wouldn't use up my valuble [sic] time yesterday. I think it will be a pretty good April Fool on you. Ruth & I have got an April Fool for Eva. Ruth is going to mail her a letter in Baldwinville this A.M. There is a nice clean blank piece of paper inside and the envelope is addressed to

Miss Eva Grey Akers
Templeton,
Mass.
U.S.A.

Important

We hope that she will think that Mrs. Martin wrote it. I directed the envelope & Ruth is going to get Emma to mail it so Ruth didn't have anything to do with it. She wants to be with Eva when she gets it & as I am going to be in Gardner to-night, I shall be safe.

Friday A.M. Ida called me out of Chemistry to ask me for my graduation essay. Then she brought up a note that Carrie had sent inviting me down to her house to-night. She is going to have Roger, Dwight, Paul and perhaps Drake & Cowee & I don't know who for girls. I have been able to think of nothing else since then. I am so tickled I don't know what to do. I am going to wear my pink dress for I shall not have to go out of doors & then house is heated by steam. I expect to go down at 3:30 provided the cars run. I was pressing my pink dress when Mr. Aiken came in & something was said about it. He thought I had better stay in the house if I was going to wear that.

The honors have been given out down at school & horrible dictu! Beatrice Lowe is first. Of all cheats she is the worst. It will be terrible graduation night to have to sit & hear her. Marjery Sawyer is second & she ought to be first. When Mr. B- announced the honors, no one clapped & only a few spoke to the girls. There is only a very few tenths between their averages. Miss Barron told me she thought that both ought to have it. The class feel terribly about it. It will just spoil their graduation.

Ralph Whitney, Chessie's youngest brother, had his foot caught in the elevator at the Bay State Wed. His shoes & stocking were torn off, his big toe crushed somewhat & the nail pulled off the next but it was not as bad as they feared at first. He was around Thursday.

Mrs. Scollay called here a few minutes Sat. to inquire after Mama. She told me that Mrs. Fred Stanley had has been very sick with the grippe & still is pretty miserable. She also said that Mrs. Arthur couldn't get sick any other way so she fell down the barn stairs. She was at church yesterday so I guess she isn't badly off.

Herbert Wright came to town Thursday. He expected to find his grandmother here but lo and behold she wasn't. Dorothy said that he went up to the house & tried to walk in but couldn't. Then he knocked & pounded & finally became very angry. She came that P.M. I guess,. Just think! he knew me down in Gardner. He was out playing ball Friday P.M. with Theo & Winthrop, two Hawkes, two Skerryes & Harold Seaver. I walked from Grace's over to the Brooks' with "Betsey" Sun. A.M. She said she was real worried over "Fritz". He had a bad cold & he had coughed all night. She didn't go to church so she must have been pretty anxious about him.

Sigrid Anderson has been staying up to Carrie's until her home was fumigated. I guess Mary is getting along all right now.

We had a postal from Cousin Esther Saturday. She thought that Cousin Emma was losing instead of gaining. Friday was so warm that she did not feel as well. Cousin Esther said that she thought that if Cousin Emma grew no better they would not try to have an operation. We think that Cousin Esther would was blue & discouraged when she wrote & we hope that things are not as bad as it sounded though they are bad enough. Cousin Emma is in the hospital now & does not sit up at all. Cousin Esther has picked up her things & taken them to 101 Austin St.

Sat. A.M. I made brown bread, two pies, cake doughnuts & some lemon jelly. Didn't I do well. In the P.M. I travelled up to the church several times. Auntie sent her ferns & two hyacinths up. Mrs. Greenwood, Mrs. Seaver, Mrs. Skerye, Marion & the girls did the trimming & things looked fine[.] They had Mr. Skerrye banked in so that he could hardly move. After church & the opening exercises for Sunday School I took some of our plants home & then went to Mrs. Ingraham's, Mrs. Pratt's, Miss Cuttings, Mrs. Moore's & Miss Wilkinson's with Easter cards from the L.A.H. Mrs. Pratt wanted me to come up & see her waist. Isn't it pretty? She is going to dress up in it when Mason comes. He comes next week Sat. & has a week. Last night Auntie & I went over to the other side to an Easter concert. It was fine. Mr. Burnham sang with them yesterday. He sung a lovely solo in the evening. Raymond & Georgie were the best. They went up on the platform & of course Georgie was way behind. They then faced each other & Raymond asked questions & Georgies answered them. There were five or six of them. I think they did pretty well to learn so much. Both stood with their hands down at their sides, stiff as pokers. Georgie moved just as he does out here at play.

Wednesday night Eva invited Ruth & I over to play "Donkey", & if we didn't have a circus. Frank is always full of it but he was worst than ever that night. "Donkey" is just like our "Muggins". (Strange what names things have isn't it?) If you don't play on the center first or don't play on the other folks someone yells "Donkey" & if it is Frank you jump about a foot & become so rattled you don't know what you are doing. Each of the players gives you a card at such times. Our ears grew so long that htey were very uncomfortable. Ruth & I had ours cut off. I must stop though it seems as if 3:30 would never come.

With love,
Molly.

Thank you very much for the handkerchief. I carried mine yesterday. Auntie sends thanks for hers.