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Stoughton, Mass. Monday - 31 July 44 Dear Sid: Doris and Mabel are playing badminton in the drive and shrieking. It is just sunset and beginning to grow cooler. Yesterday we had a regular ripsnorter of a thunder storm and a good rain, but it isn't quite so hot, tho warm enough. I took Doris in for another sale, but first we rode down via the subway to Revere and had a dip. It was so cold we stayed in only 10 minutes for the length of a good swim, then we sat for 3/4 of an hour on the beach sunning and eating our sandwiches, and took the subway back to the shopping district, where Doris tried on dresses again for a couple of hours and came off without any. She had a wonderful time, tho, in Filene's basement,- her first experience there, and I sat on a chair I found somewhere and held our bags of bathing suits and waited patiently. I got my mother some skirts and a pair of slippers,- the things the poor soul was wearing were pretty awful,- so the Ballentines commented when they saw them hanging on the lines according to Mrs B. I forgot to say that in the middle of the street in Revere, Doris picked up a lavender slip-on sweater that was a perfect fit for her, and no owner in sight. She is perfectly happy on it, - it is an all-wool one, nearly new, that is worth about $5 nowadays.
Transcription Notes:
"Filene's" was a department Store in the Boston Massachusetts area