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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

JULY
21
TUESDAY

Fair & not so hot. I did German in morning & went with Mabel to  Brocton [[Brockton]] Field Parkway Pond again, swam once & tanned and basked some. We started at 7:45 & got there at 1:15!! (30 min) We got back about 6:00. We stopped once on way back to paddle. I think mother will get me a new bathing suit - I hope so. On way back we went to Stoughton 5¢ and 10¢ store & between us, Mabel & I bought a 11¢ bottle of leg stocking lotion - I pd. 6.¢, she 5.¢. It is a thick, light brown fluid you rub on legs & dry - pretty - looks like stockings or sun tan - I put it on my feet tonight. - pretty - soap & water takes it off & scrating [[scratching]] mars it. I spent 6¢ - had $9.04 - have $ [[strikethrough]] 8.44¢ now [[/strikethrough]]
$8.98 now

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"Keep cool and you command everybody"-St. Just
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DESKAIDE | THE SILENT SECRETARY | 1942
JULY 22
WEDNESDAY 

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[[August 1942 calendar with 23 24 and 25 circled and 27 28 and 29 strikethrough]]
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Fair & windy & cool. In morning 
I did German, went to store twice 
(once to see about painting Dad's little 
house for a surprise - gray door, yellow (house), & white finishings.)  In the afternoon I 
went to Mabel's & we put on the 
leg stocking stuff to above knees from 
feet (toes, too)  It is dark tan color & 
pretty. (prettier than 59¢ or $1.00 stuff - 
comes of [[off]] with soap & water & hard
rubbing) I put a line down back
of it with eyebrow pencil, - we both did. 
[[sketch of legs]] It looks like real stockings
exactly!!  We used the
whole bottle up.  We helped 
her mother clean a cabinet. 
(washed dishes etc.) & went to Ladies 
Apparel shop in Stoughton to see 
about a bathing suit for me.  I got 
one just like Mabel's ($1.09 & large size)!!! 
Mother (who rode my bike way over to 
get a qt. of blueberries, etc. we had 
for supper, paid for it.  It & Mabel's are on
next page.  I cut out another Jergen's coupon - have 4 now.

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"A masterpiece is not hewn from any block of wood"—Pythagoras
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We had each a plum royal icecream cone.
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Transcription Notes:
-I am unsure of what to put when a margin note is cut off. -I am unsure of what to put when dates on the calendar are circled. -I am unsure of how to notate a drawing among many lines. -There is a partial notation at top of 2nd page that I cannot read. As the first transcriptionist said, there appears to be some writing in the margins along the binding of this diary, but the is not fully opened and this cannot be read.