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Lena says for you to bring home your plaid skirt and have Bertha fix it up she things your old garnet dress would make a blouse to go with it and she is going to give you her old brown velvet waist which she had got with nothing to wear with it Mamie Wales was here one day this week to dinner she has been through the operation for the trouble to her face and it was terrible, she called it brutal and its nothing lasting they say, too bad. Helen has taken her Master of Education degree at Harvard. Dont get you anything for waists for hot weather Lena has chartered a store and brought home its contents, you'l see when you come home. I hope you wont see come till then, shirk all you can and let the house work go till you feel better and its cooler. no use to kill yourself in that beastly elimate that is not fir to live in, except for niggers. The Selises have moved away from the Elmes house and every one is glad, they were awful noisy people. the two coons they brougt with them from Baltimore were entertaining fellows nights & I guess Mrs Elmes in the bungalo, had the benifit of some of it. hope so any way. well this will do for this time
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