Tougaloo, Miss.
Feb. 10, 1906.Dear family,
We had a little of your cold wave here, and Tuesday there was a little snowstorm on top of the flowers. Mrs. Woodworth had been making flower-beds and setting out bulbs the day before, but had to have them covered up with straw and boards. I am going to send home a Cherokee rose in April to be set out. It won't be a very good time to take it up for that will be just the time it will be in blossom here, but I suppose the ground there won't be in condition before that time. Mrs. Mekeel-Mekeel also wants one.
Did Ruth see the eclipse Thursday night? It was a fine one. Here the night was perfectly clear, and Mr. Dooley came and waked us up about one. Some of his Astronomy class said they sat up all night so as not to miss any of it, but I have never yet convinced myself that a darkey could keep awake all night. The next morning the peculiar teacher (I always seem to be located where there is one of that description) told us we ought to have observed it thro smoked glass as was her custom.
Mrs. Dooley came last night and appeared at breakfast this morning. She is the tiniest affair I ever saw, comes up just a little above my waist, and weighs eighty-nine pounds. Now there are no more arrivals and changes to look forward to, except Dr. Woodworth's return, and I hope the rest of the year - less than four months - will pass without any breaks.
The sewing and dress-making teachers are over their heads in uniform making, blue skirts and white shirt-waists; they are supposed to be done by vacation time, Feb. 21, and there are still forty skirts uncut. I would rather teach Mathematics. even if one of the college men can't subtract one-half from two.
The teachers who are going to New Orleans to Mardi Gras are wondering whether they will see Alice Roosevelt-Longworth there on her wedding tour.
No, I don't want to sell my view[.]
My gold tooth soon became all right, but I have lost the filling from a front one and shall have to make the acquaintance of a Jackson dentist in vacation.
No, I did not send you the Cosmopolitan. You will have to look further.
I saw a butterfly a few days ago, but have not tried to catch any yet; they won't look healthy for a few weeks.
No, I don't want to sell my view for $10,000 or for any amount of mere money, but I do want a certain little triangle for landscape forestry.
With love -
Susie.