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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

April 4 Saturday

Fair. I stayed home + played with Bobby + Joan + Bobby's sisters. They (Bobbie + 2 sisters, Ann (6) + Mary Ellen (4) have very cute Easter dresses. The 2 
smaller ones are yellow satin + Bobby's is pinkish
purplish rose with white lace. Her mother made them all. Bobby had a hat + coat + white pumps too. I found the gold elephant pin Peggy Reinhart gave me for Christmas I last day after Christmas near front steps!
        
[[drawing: A large elephant and a small elephant joined by a chain]] 
Big elephant [[arrow pointing to big elephant]]
Chain [[arrow pointing to the chain]]
Small one [[arrow pointing to small elephant]]
Pin on back of each.
              
I found a king + queen ant! I am going to reuse them.

[[left margin continuing across top margin]] Dolores + I were taken to Clarendon by Ma + Pa in afternoon. Dolores got her little brother Carrole a 35 cent Easter egg. [[/left margin continuing across top margin]]

[[Quote - typed text hidden by handwriting]] "The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it has"--TALMUD [[/Quote]]


April 5
SUNDAY

Very Hot

We went to Plum Point but mother and I didn't walk down.

Fair. HOT. 
I gave mother the bureau:
[[Drawings of the decorated bureau's back, side and front.]]

blue card board back with design on it.

lace [[arrow pointing from top of bureau, and a drawer]]  

match boxes glued together [[arrow pointing to match box on front - used 23]]

paper fasteners used for knobs [[3 drawings showing a knob, and then two drawings showing clasp knob goes in when pushed, and when pulled out, clasp knob pulls out.]] 

I put a vase with flowers in it in that space [[arrow pointing at space in top center]]

box top [[arrow points to rectangular box on bottom]] painted ivory + streaked with pink on all sides except back which is covered with cardboard.

Gave mother the blue cardboard back with design on it.
Side - painted same as box top.
[[arrow pointing to side of bureau]]painted same as boxtop


Mother gave me a pretty apron she made.
[[drawing of the apron front and back]]

Back [[top part of back with plaid design drawn]]

Front [[arrow]] [[plaid design drawn]]

Pink ribbon fastened with clasps in middle. [[arrow to ribbon]]

[[left margin]]It is gray + red plaid - pretty.[[left margin]]

[[right margin continuing along bottom]]
I got a skunk cabbage on way home - pretty but lots of roots I didn't get. [[/right margin continuing along bottom]]

Transcription Notes:
I made changes to the transcription so that it was more readable, as per instructions. Laying out images and phrases to reflect how they fall on the page becomes very difficult to follow. I have added descriptions to relay the author's resourceful and comical use of space because they are just too precious to lose. I put spaces between entries to make it easier to read how she made the bureau, and to describe the apron.