Sunday 6:00 PM
Dear Betty and Mother and All
I don’t know if this will get to you before you leave or not but I’ll take a chance. Grouchy kid is going to be home again so soon. I used to love to have a chance to come back and finish up all the things I had wanted to do but didn’t do during Xmas vacation. Are the Fielding girls coming home with you? Don’t tell me you’re going to make some underwear. I know a darling way to make a chemise. Miss Bircher just made her own and last night Miss Eulestine and I each got a couple of yards to make us each one. It’s a stiped dimity and we’re going to make it like Miss Euestine’s sister made her one for Xmas with a heading of colored organdie around the top and bottom. You could use your lavender and make these stand out awfully
and have it hemstitched on. [diagram] Have you your kerchief finished or hemmed yet? If you get any cute ideas send them to me for making kerchiefs. I’m making one now I’ll give you as soon as its finished.
I nearly passed out in my class the other day. It’s got all my cute kids in it and I looked back and there was my Garwood Craig pulling his ear and as he pulled, his tongue automatically came out,- he looked so perfectly absurd and funny that I just had to laugh. It tickled the kids to death-guess they’d never seen me laugh before. They then discovered that all they’d have to do would be to look at me and grin and I’d have to stop and laugh and begin all over again. It was perfect agony. I thought the period would never end- but they were so cute. I discovered after school that this was on the board and I supposed helped things on though I know they all didn’t see it-- “Miss Briggs is engaged.”
What do you suppose we did Fri night? I had a date until about 11 o’clock and when I came up the other 3 ladies were playing bridge so I took my kerchief and sat down with them to work on this. We fooled
and joked and laughed on at such a high rate of speed that I guess no one realized what time it was getting to be. I thought I’d stay up as late as they so said nothing about the time till finally I thought they must be losing their minds so asked them to guess. They guessed 12 and 12:30 and when I informed them that it was 2:15 we all nearly died. We decided then we’d better have breakfast so Miss Bircher put her tea pot on for the second time and we had tea and apples. Miss Eulestine is a perfect scream when she gets started and we had the best old time. I arose Sat. at 11:30, had a bath and my dinner and then maybe I didn’t do some mending. And then I got out that silk dress that you had dyed, mother, and cut off the top and took up the shoulder seam and got one sleeve cut out of it and a few yards of fullnon cut out of it and sewed back in-by that time I was so weary I wouldn’t do it to the other sleeve. You’d be interested to know that at the present moment I have the blue silk taffeta waist on. It’s beautiful.
Mother, I wrote a letter to Dad Fri night but doubt it he would get it. Also sent Uncle John [Broad] a birthday card at Aunt Bess’s suggestion.
I’s been a wonderfully sunny bright day down here and I went to church this A.M.
I’ll have to be leaving if I go to-night.
Heaps of love,
Marion
As well as being a committed teacher, Marion also seems to be a creative seamstress. I really don't understand what she's doing with the silk outfit but she seems determined to use and reuse the fabric she has on hand. The sketch above is from her letter home describing the chemise she is making.
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