July 11, 1907Dear Jane:-
Congratulations for getting a prom man so early! The girls have told me all about it because they knew how bashful you were about it.
I'm "lady of the house" now & enjoy it ever so much. Help with everything but the washing. You'd laugh to hear me telling Gerda how to cook things which I couldn't cook - study it out of a cook-book & then go out in the kitchen & tell her about it as though I really knew something about it. Last night she said to me - "Vat a good cook you is." I could hardly keep a straight face. To-day Bess is off for all day & Gerda has gone to a funeral so I've got to brace up & show what a good cook I am because I've invited a couple of the girls in to lunch. The bride returned a couple of days ago & we have been monopolizing her when her husband - we love to ask her about him - isn't around. Alice Clark, aother one of the girls we've always "played with" is still at home so we see a good deal of her too. She & the bride are to be my guests. (Ahem).
Afternoons we've been awful gadders going all around. Alice & I especially. The 4th we went every minute from the bonfire at midnight the night before till the fire-works at night but we had 4 escorts - 2 apiece, all old play-mates whom I had lost sight of in the last few years but they are quite in evidence now. Prom men? Who knows?
Now I know you'll be disgusted when I tell you I've got one of Dick's play-mates on the string - 16 yrs old. Poor kid its a shame, but he is really quite interesting. The only trouble is his calls are getting too frequent.
By the 1st of Aug. probably I'll be gone from here so try to write before then & I'll try to answer sooner than I have this time.
I'm a bird just at present with poisoning all over one side of my face - don't know where I got it unless it was down to the "Holy Jumpers" - we go down 'most every night to "get saved."
With love,
Lucy.P.S. My report-card was the same as in Feb.