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You don't skip church when you visit Laura! But then, I'm sure Mama Margaret liked that.
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It was a surprise to hear of Will’s promotion to Col. They could [illegible] now.
949 McKinley Ave.
Canton March 7.
Dear Eva,
Many thanks for your letter and check. I am having a very pleasant visit here. The first Sunday we went to hear Dr. Manchester. Last Sunday we went to the 2nd M.E. Church to Dr. Mohn. Then in the afternoon we went down to Uncle John’s and I presented the sweater to him. It was a good fit and he was much pleased. The people in the house are very good to him and I think he is good to them. They have electric lights now and a new garage where the coal house used to stand. Mrs. Toubelle drives the auto. Monday Laura and I went over to Alliance. Mrs. Henson had gone over on Friday. Margaret and James were there and came home with us and Elizabeth took them home to Akron yesterday and will stay until Sunday evening.
Tuesday Mr. Bidwell came for me about three o’clock and I had a lovely visit there. Dr. Pirty brought me home after ten o’clock as Mr. Bidwell does not drive after night. Florence was knitting socks. She likes to make them. Ray has a half dozen pairs. His late picture looks fine. He is a good looking officer. Mrs. Bidwell will go down to the camp when the weather gets warmer. Mr. Bidwell has been down. Mrs. B. does not seem to worry at all.
Uncle John Stokey was here yesterday. He says Mary is better but her nerves are in a bad condition yet. I am going out soon to see them.
I was to have gone to see Manchesters yesterday and Grace telephoned in the A.M. that she was sick in bed - had sick head ache. This morning she telephoned me to come Monday and she would have Dr. and Mrs. Manchester there too.
I have just received the first letter from Kathleen since I came and had a picture of Billy also the group. I think it is fairly good considering how much of a hurry it was taken. Yours is the best and mine the worst. Margaret’s is good I think, I think Billy in the carriage is very nice.
Laura and I went to the picture show last night. We saw Marguerite Clarke in “Bab’s Matinee Idol”, I had read some of it in The Saturday Evening Post. We all three went one night to see The Garden of Allah. It was not as good as the play. I think you went with me to see it in New York. There are too many people in it on the screen. Laura and Elizabeth both liked it. I think I would too if I had not seen the real play.
We are having a taste of winter again. It commenced to snow last night and this morning there was a good deal on the ground but it has melted some today. I saw a robin while over in Alliance. Elizabeth has heard them here but I have not. I don’t want it to get too warm as I have only winter clothes. We shortened my satin dress as Laura thought it was too long. My heels are lower than I used to wear I think. It did seem long. I am going to send my black woolen to the cleaners tomorrow a.m.
I am going to make Laura a couple of combinations, she hunted up her pattern and material this afternoon. Try to have your stuff ready when I go and I can do some sewing and take some home.
A dollar a yard does seem high priced. I don’t think it ever was that in Civil war days, but then ginghams are nicer than in those days. Try to have patterns too if you can. I don’t want to spend much time there on account of my clothes. So you will have to be ready to go as soon as your school closes. I don’t know what day I shall go but I can go by the 15th I think - that will be one week from tomorrow. Set the day to suit you and I will make a big effort to be there. I think I will get my hat made over while in Phila.
Laura is busy tonight, she has a good many patients about all she is able to take care of. She is not real well yet. With lots of love and kisses
Mother.
949 McKinley Ave.
Canton March 7.
Dear Eva,
Many thanks for your letter and check. I am having a very pleasant visit here. The first Sunday we went to hear Dr. Manchester. Last Sunday we went to the 2nd M.E. Church to Dr. Mohn. Then in the afternoon we went down to Uncle John’s and I presented the sweater to him. It was a good fit and he was much pleased. The people in the house are very good to him and I think he is good to them. They have electric lights now and a new garage where the coal house used to stand. Mrs. Toubelle drives the auto. Monday Laura and I went over to Alliance. Mrs. Henson had gone over on Friday. Margaret and James were there and came home with us and Elizabeth took them home to Akron yesterday and will stay until Sunday evening.
Tuesday Mr. Bidwell came for me about three o’clock and I had a lovely visit there. Dr. Pirty brought me home after ten o’clock as Mr. Bidwell does not drive after night. Florence was knitting socks. She likes to make them. Ray has a half dozen pairs. His late picture looks fine. He is a good looking officer. Mrs. Bidwell will go down to the camp when the weather gets warmer. Mr. Bidwell has been down. Mrs. B. does not seem to worry at all.
Uncle John Stokey was here yesterday. He says Mary is better but her nerves are in a bad condition yet. I am going out soon to see them.
I was to have gone to see Manchesters yesterday and Grace telephoned in the A.M. that she was sick in bed - had sick head ache. This morning she telephoned me to come Monday and she would have Dr. and Mrs. Manchester there too.
I have just received the first letter from Kathleen since I came and had a picture of Billy also the group. I think it is fairly good considering how much of a hurry it was taken. Yours is the best and mine the worst. Margaret’s is good I think, I think Billy in the carriage is very nice.
Laura and I went to the picture show last night. We saw Marguerite Clarke in “Bab’s Matinee Idol”, I had read some of it in The Saturday Evening Post. We all three went one night to see The Garden of Allah. It was not as good as the play. I think you went with me to see it in New York. There are too many people in it on the screen. Laura and Elizabeth both liked it. I think I would too if I had not seen the real play.
We are having a taste of winter again. It commenced to snow last night and this morning there was a good deal on the ground but it has melted some today. I saw a robin while over in Alliance. Elizabeth has heard them here but I have not. I don’t want it to get too warm as I have only winter clothes. We shortened my satin dress as Laura thought it was too long. My heels are lower than I used to wear I think. It did seem long. I am going to send my black woolen to the cleaners tomorrow a.m.
I am going to make Laura a couple of combinations, she hunted up her pattern and material this afternoon. Try to have your stuff ready when I go and I can do some sewing and take some home.
A dollar a yard does seem high priced. I don’t think it ever was that in Civil war days, but then ginghams are nicer than in those days. Try to have patterns too if you can. I don’t want to spend much time there on account of my clothes. So you will have to be ready to go as soon as your school closes. I don’t know what day I shall go but I can go by the 15th I think - that will be one week from tomorrow. Set the day to suit you and I will make a big effort to be there. I think I will get my hat made over while in Phila.
Laura is busy tonight, she has a good many patients about all she is able to take care of. She is not real well yet. With lots of love and kisses
Mother.
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1.
It was a surprise to hear of Will’s promotion to Col. They could [illegible] now.
949 McKinley Ave.
Canton March 7.
As usual, Mama Margaret is careless about putting in the full date, but the year must be 1918, because Will received his promotion to Colonel in January of 1918. And, of course, there are other indications.
2.
I am having a very pleasant visit here. The first Sunday we went to hear Dr. Manchester. Last Sunday we went to the 2nd M.E. Church to Dr. Mohn.
March 7 was a Thursday. So the previous Sunday, when they went to the 2nd Methodist Episcopal church, was March 3, and the Sunday before that, when they went to hear Dr. Manchester, was February 24. Therefore Mama Margaret arrived on her visit to Laura sometime between February 16 and February 23.
I think Mama Margaret had been hoping to get to Laura earlier, but the January cold spell caused problems - see:
3.
Then in the afternoon we went down to Uncle John’s and I presented the sweater to him.
This must be Mama Margaret's younger brother John Provines, who is in the Provines and Gracey section of this website. He was 69 at this time.
4.
Monday Laura and I went over to Alliance. Mrs. Henson had gone over on Friday. Margaret and James were there and came home with us and Elizabeth took them home to Akron yesterday and will stay until Sunday evening.
I don't know who these people are. It sounds as though Margaret and James might be children, but that's just a guess.
5.
Tuesday Mr. Bidwell came for me about three o’clock and I had a lovely visit there. Dr. Pirty brought me home after ten o’clock as Mr. Bidwell does not drive after night. Florence was knitting socks. She likes to make them. Ray has a half dozen pairs. His late picture looks fine. He is a good looking officer. Mrs. Bidwell will go down to the camp when the weather gets warmer. Mr. Bidwell has been down. Mrs. B. does not seem to worry at all.
The Bidwells are in the non-family section for Ohio folks on this website. Florence, a childhood friend of Eva's, was 32 at this time, and Ray was almost 34.
6.
Uncle John Stokey was here yesterday. He says Mary is better but her nerves are in a bad condition yet. I am going out soon to see them.
This is surprising. We usually don't hear anything about the Stokey relatives. I haven't even thought it worthwhile to put together a page on this website for them. I gather from Barbara's genealogy that this is Papa Charles's younger brother John Henry Stokey 1847-1926, married in 1875 to Mary Ann Uth 1855-1934, so she must have had a good recovery from whatever ailed her. It sounds as though Eva already knew that Mary had been ill, so I figure Laura had told them about it when the whole family was gathered for Christmas 1917 at Will's and Kathleen's home in Cincinnati. And that's interesting, too.
7.
I have just received the first letter from Kathleen since I came and had a picture of Billy also the group.
I wonder if the group picture is this:
It was a surprise to hear of Will’s promotion to Col. They could [illegible] now.
949 McKinley Ave.
Canton March 7.
As usual, Mama Margaret is careless about putting in the full date, but the year must be 1918, because Will received his promotion to Colonel in January of 1918. And, of course, there are other indications.
2.
I am having a very pleasant visit here. The first Sunday we went to hear Dr. Manchester. Last Sunday we went to the 2nd M.E. Church to Dr. Mohn.
March 7 was a Thursday. So the previous Sunday, when they went to the 2nd Methodist Episcopal church, was March 3, and the Sunday before that, when they went to hear Dr. Manchester, was February 24. Therefore Mama Margaret arrived on her visit to Laura sometime between February 16 and February 23.
I think Mama Margaret had been hoping to get to Laura earlier, but the January cold spell caused problems - see:
3.
Then in the afternoon we went down to Uncle John’s and I presented the sweater to him.
This must be Mama Margaret's younger brother John Provines, who is in the Provines and Gracey section of this website. He was 69 at this time.
4.
Monday Laura and I went over to Alliance. Mrs. Henson had gone over on Friday. Margaret and James were there and came home with us and Elizabeth took them home to Akron yesterday and will stay until Sunday evening.
I don't know who these people are. It sounds as though Margaret and James might be children, but that's just a guess.
5.
Tuesday Mr. Bidwell came for me about three o’clock and I had a lovely visit there. Dr. Pirty brought me home after ten o’clock as Mr. Bidwell does not drive after night. Florence was knitting socks. She likes to make them. Ray has a half dozen pairs. His late picture looks fine. He is a good looking officer. Mrs. Bidwell will go down to the camp when the weather gets warmer. Mr. Bidwell has been down. Mrs. B. does not seem to worry at all.
The Bidwells are in the non-family section for Ohio folks on this website. Florence, a childhood friend of Eva's, was 32 at this time, and Ray was almost 34.
6.
Uncle John Stokey was here yesterday. He says Mary is better but her nerves are in a bad condition yet. I am going out soon to see them.
This is surprising. We usually don't hear anything about the Stokey relatives. I haven't even thought it worthwhile to put together a page on this website for them. I gather from Barbara's genealogy that this is Papa Charles's younger brother John Henry Stokey 1847-1926, married in 1875 to Mary Ann Uth 1855-1934, so she must have had a good recovery from whatever ailed her. It sounds as though Eva already knew that Mary had been ill, so I figure Laura had told them about it when the whole family was gathered for Christmas 1917 at Will's and Kathleen's home in Cincinnati. And that's interesting, too.
7.
I have just received the first letter from Kathleen since I came and had a picture of Billy also the group.
I wonder if the group picture is this:
Christmastime 1917 in Cincinnati.
8.
Laura and I went to the picture show last night. We saw Marguerite Clarke in “Bab’s Matinee Idol”, I had read some of it in The Saturday Evening Post.
“Bab’s Matinee Idol” - Wikipedia says:
Bab's Matinee Idol is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy film, based on the Mary Roberts Rinehart novels, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This was the final film in the trilogy of Babs films that starred Marguerite Clark.
As described in a film magazine, Bab (Clark) is in love with Adrian (Steele), an actor, and cuts his picture out of a newspaper and worships it. An epidemic of measles breaks out and Bab is sent home. A few days later Bab learns that the play with her idol is in town, so she borrows money to see a performance with her hero. She writes him a note, and he invites her into his dressing room. She learns that unless the show gets more publicity, it will close. She arranges with Carter Brooks (Barrie) and her father (Losee) for Adrian to apply for work at her father's ammunition factory, and after he is thrown out the story will be in the newspapers. However, the Honorable Page Beresford (Chadwick), who is after Bab's sister Leila's (Greene) hand and fortune, arrives at the factory to place an order for shells and, mistaken for Adrian, gets thrown out. When the real Adrian applies for work, he is hired and not allowed to leave, and misses the matinee performance. His irate wife, searching for Adrian, soon puts matters right. Bab succumbs to the measles and the revelation that Adrian is married completely shatters her thoughts of romance, at least for the time being.
All three Bab's films are now presumed lost.
9.
We all three went one night to see The Garden of Allah. It was not as good as the play. I think you went with me to see it in New York. There are too many people in it on the screen. Laura and Elizabeth both liked it. I think I would too if I had not seen the real play.
Will took Ruth and Kathleen Farmer (he wasn't yet even engaged to Kathleen) and Eva to see The Garden of Allah in December 1915 - see: I wonder if Eva remembered it.
10.
We shortened my satin dress as Laura thought it was too long. My heels are lower than I used to wear I think. It did seem long.
At first I thought this was about skirt lengths becoming shorter during World War I, but now it sounds as though it's only about the height of the heels on Mama Margaret's shoes.
11,
I am going to make Laura a couple of combinations, she hunted up her pattern and material this afternoon.
Here's what I found in:Victorian combinations are a one-piece garment that combines a chemise and drawers into a streamlined sort of romper. It’s the first undergarment you put on and thus provides a barrier between your corset and skin, protecting your corset—which often cannot be washed—from your body’s oils and perspiration. It has a fitted upper body and a loose lower body. The crotch is split, which makes using the restroom much, much easier. Don’t worry: the edges of the crotch overlap, providing modesty and preventing drafts.
12.
A dollar a yard does seem high priced. I don’t think it ever was that in Civil war days, but then ginghams are nicer than in those days.
It's unusual to see Mama Margaret talking about the Civil War.
12.
I don’t want to spend much time there on account of my clothes. So you will have to be ready to go as soon as your school closes.
It sounds as though Mama Margaret is going to visit Eva in Philadelphia, and then once spring vacation starts (note: Easter was on March 31 in 1918), they'll both go to Alma's in South Hadley.
13.
I don’t know what day I shall go but I can go by the 15th I think - that will be one week from tomorrow.
At first I read the 15th as the 18th and wondered about the date of the letter, but things got simpler when I realized it was the 15th. So Mama Margaret arrived at Laura's somewhere around February 20th and was planning to leave around the March 15th.
14.
Laura is busy tonight, she has a good many patients about all she is able to take care of. She is not real well yet.
So Laura has been sick. I wonder what the illness was, and whether she was sick during the Christmas gathering.
Laura and I went to the picture show last night. We saw Marguerite Clarke in “Bab’s Matinee Idol”, I had read some of it in The Saturday Evening Post.
“Bab’s Matinee Idol” - Wikipedia says:
Bab's Matinee Idol is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy film, based on the Mary Roberts Rinehart novels, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This was the final film in the trilogy of Babs films that starred Marguerite Clark.
As described in a film magazine, Bab (Clark) is in love with Adrian (Steele), an actor, and cuts his picture out of a newspaper and worships it. An epidemic of measles breaks out and Bab is sent home. A few days later Bab learns that the play with her idol is in town, so she borrows money to see a performance with her hero. She writes him a note, and he invites her into his dressing room. She learns that unless the show gets more publicity, it will close. She arranges with Carter Brooks (Barrie) and her father (Losee) for Adrian to apply for work at her father's ammunition factory, and after he is thrown out the story will be in the newspapers. However, the Honorable Page Beresford (Chadwick), who is after Bab's sister Leila's (Greene) hand and fortune, arrives at the factory to place an order for shells and, mistaken for Adrian, gets thrown out. When the real Adrian applies for work, he is hired and not allowed to leave, and misses the matinee performance. His irate wife, searching for Adrian, soon puts matters right. Bab succumbs to the measles and the revelation that Adrian is married completely shatters her thoughts of romance, at least for the time being.
All three Bab's films are now presumed lost.
9.
We all three went one night to see The Garden of Allah. It was not as good as the play. I think you went with me to see it in New York. There are too many people in it on the screen. Laura and Elizabeth both liked it. I think I would too if I had not seen the real play.
Will took Ruth and Kathleen Farmer (he wasn't yet even engaged to Kathleen) and Eva to see The Garden of Allah in December 1915 - see: I wonder if Eva remembered it.
10.
We shortened my satin dress as Laura thought it was too long. My heels are lower than I used to wear I think. It did seem long.
At first I thought this was about skirt lengths becoming shorter during World War I, but now it sounds as though it's only about the height of the heels on Mama Margaret's shoes.
11,
I am going to make Laura a couple of combinations, she hunted up her pattern and material this afternoon.
Here's what I found in:Victorian combinations are a one-piece garment that combines a chemise and drawers into a streamlined sort of romper. It’s the first undergarment you put on and thus provides a barrier between your corset and skin, protecting your corset—which often cannot be washed—from your body’s oils and perspiration. It has a fitted upper body and a loose lower body. The crotch is split, which makes using the restroom much, much easier. Don’t worry: the edges of the crotch overlap, providing modesty and preventing drafts.
12.
A dollar a yard does seem high priced. I don’t think it ever was that in Civil war days, but then ginghams are nicer than in those days.
It's unusual to see Mama Margaret talking about the Civil War.
12.
I don’t want to spend much time there on account of my clothes. So you will have to be ready to go as soon as your school closes.
It sounds as though Mama Margaret is going to visit Eva in Philadelphia, and then once spring vacation starts (note: Easter was on March 31 in 1918), they'll both go to Alma's in South Hadley.
13.
I don’t know what day I shall go but I can go by the 15th I think - that will be one week from tomorrow.
At first I read the 15th as the 18th and wondered about the date of the letter, but things got simpler when I realized it was the 15th. So Mama Margaret arrived at Laura's somewhere around February 20th and was planning to leave around the March 15th.
14.
Laura is busy tonight, she has a good many patients about all she is able to take care of. She is not real well yet.
So Laura has been sick. I wonder what the illness was, and whether she was sick during the Christmas gathering.
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