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P.S. I am enclosing check for Feb. co-operative dues. If I remember correctly I paid January's. If I didn't, I will if you will tell me about it. 

January 28, 1922

Dear Folks: 
        I am getting started early this week on my letter so you will probably get it Monday as I shall mail it to-day.
        I got a letter from Jimmie day before yesterday inviting me to the Alpha Delta Pi banquet for the tenth but I don't think that I shall go for I am trying to save enough money to buy another share the last of February. 
        Myrtle has just come up and she is opening and closing the door asking me, "any tuff (stuff) to-day?" She plays at taking orders that way. If she doesn't think just as anyone else does about a thing, she will say, "I don't think so." I never knew of a child who could talk so much before two years of age. She knows all kinds of nursery rhymes too. "Not to-day, boy," she is ever saying as she looks out of the window. She still has sores and in addition a bad chest cold. Her mother ran her into the [[?]] too. She thinks the world of Myrtle, but she does not show very good sense in dealing with her, it seems to me.
          I got a letter from Doris yesterday. Tell her when you write, please, that I have done nothing as yet about looking for a coat so she will do well to get one in Washington if she can. I also got letters from Aunt Cora and Elizabeth. Aunt Cora says she can't understand why Uncle Charles should have left her the way he did but that she is trying to keep up for the sake of the children, but she is feeling badly just the same. She wants me to come up this summer. She says she is lonesome. I don't know what I shall do. She and Elizabeth both like the dress apparently, but they didn't say anything about the other things. Aunt Cora evidently