Saturday 1-30 P.M.
Nov. 23, 1940Dear little Girl: The 400+ envelopes are finished - so I am taking pen in hand again - to write. Everything is very dark in the sky. Looks like a thunder-storm - but I guess it is just wind-clouds. Papa is going out calling - and is going to get his hair cut. If he does not succeed, I will have to braid it to-morrow morning. What color hair-ribbon would you suggest?
Andy and Brownie are right here. Andy on the table and Brownie on the desk - right by me. They have a white poodle staying at the Neary's. Too cunning for words. It belongs to the other married daughter. The poodle came up on the porch to investigate Brownie - but was afraid of said cat. The poodle is old - and filthy - rolls in the dirt and dust and they can't keep her clean.
Here is a joke. A colored man asked his wife what the word propagander meant. She explained it this way in dialect "My first husband and I were married four years - and had four children, my second husband and I were married four years and had four children - You and I have been married four years - and we have not had any children -
You are notThe goose is all right but you are not a propaganda (proper-gander)." Have you heard it? We were not able to go to the play last night - the copy for Dan - did not get to him and Papa had to drive over with a duplicate copy. Then Matilda Carl came in at 7 PM. Wanted a letter to the "Beulah Pentecostal" Church in New Haven. Papa could not give her one as the Pentecostal Church is not recognized by the Methodist Church. Her relatives go to that church - and she says her two brothers and their West-Indian wives are going to leave the Catholic Church and join this church. Papa warned her against the Church - and she went on her way. I think she is "intrigued" with one of the colored ushers. She has 4 brothers - three of them living in New Haven.There is not much news since yesterday - so I will close and retire to the kitchen-pantry for an hour or so.
The quartette sends greetings.
Mamma.