Dear Father:
Seoul,_May"5/'1935.
As
fell on Sunday
I dated this lettef, it occurred to me that this same day
in 1912, when grandpa Maupin$was sick at our house; and
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as the day came to ^a close he said, I had hoped I might 'meet my -^ord
Sunday'1.'' I wrote in my last letter about .looking up my Diary record
March 29 of this year.  I have found some interesting items in other years
also. " On March 29,§1916 theihigh school 'debating team had dinner at our
house.  The day before in my■diarybl wrote: ^Mother is getting ready for
dinner^ tomorrow night.'* There-were thirteen guests, and~I wrote on that
night:wEveryorte wa3 present at the party tonight. Had three course dinner,
(l) chicke'n with.dumplings and gr°,vy, peas in patty shells, browned potatoes, hot rolls, grape ice, sweet peach pickel,§(2) fruit salad on lettuce,
afers, (3) ice cream, white caramel cake, and potato caramel cake. Mr. *
«ellington Pierce spoke Lincoln's Gettysburg Address which he paraphrased
to -fit, Hubert Kelley spoke, Morris 'Dreyfus.on School Journalism, Mr.
laugjilin on  The Winner, Mr. Simpson on The Good;Loser* Mr. Holmes on the
Central Spirit, and.Nelson on "Has 3 Gens'*. They left at 11:10."
On March. 29, 1918: fThis' morning at ,9:4o"-I broke the around for a
flowerbed in our back yard- Mother helped too, with word and deed, t:
March. 29, 1920: *l inked six pictures for father's book. Aunt Una
and Lionel were here today, and after.dinner she took Mother-to the Bible
Institute. !Idther enjoved the two 'tA'lks she heard there very much." ^
March 23, 1921: We drove"into Los Angeles 'this morning and stayed
all day'buying furnishings for our house. We bought a.slightly used rug for
our library,-an ivory dresser and a rocker for father and mother's room,
a pretty blue rugifor the "dinimt room, land a stove*.- Mother bought blue
draperies for the dining room, and 'father got electric 1ight bulbs for the
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house." March 29: I finished making the shelves for my closet...Father
made the frame of the south.pergola, and we helped, set it up about half
past  eleven.- Mother made the over-draperies  for the dining rooom and hung
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them this morning. That room is now very handsome; the color harmony is
perfect. * March 30: *£>obn after seven this morning we started on a trip
Riverside. 'We ate our lunch 'in the.park at Riverside, then walked round
saw-the pansy beds and fine'cactus, palm, and centuryfpiant gardens. A
gardener gave us four kindsof century plants,
to
and
win en we
set out tonight.
We drove-round and saw the town, Very warm
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own the kitchen linoleum.*1 March 31. ^The stove, dining table, and the
bedroom furniture Ttere delivered about four o!clock. Mother put a cover
on her-dresser and set her'-livory on it.. 1 + looks fine, we think. At firfct
mother was sorry to leave
fhomesick*,
the 'little old garasce'. and thought she would
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but her first-night at : the new house she found the view of
the'1 lights so pretty and her bed 6o good she liars not wanted the .-loft since.
April 1: ^Mother hung some pictures In her room and in the sewing room.
She found some pink,'And blue cloth grandma gave her at least ten years ago
and covered her shirt waist box and made a pillow for her rocker from it.
She said, fMamma, I thank you for it,fand she thought she would be pleased*
he box had books in it when1they moved from Carrollton, and grandma and
other covered- it before Nelson13 birth for his baby clothes, and again
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the two old'covers are Still on it. Father connected the
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box with
the gas Pipe tonight.'1 .'April. 2; * Helped, not:
er-naKe c*
a little
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the same pink
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and blue
a hinged cover for her room. She  covered
clothTthat she used yesterday on the other box, taking fevery
thred of itf. I fixed up two boxes to make four shelves in mother s
closet.  Mother and I ate the last meal in the garage at 11:30, bread and
radishes. We moved into the-house this afternoon. We are happy in the new
home. We had supper in the white kitchen at 5:70, buttered beets from