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Conger Reynolds correspondence, December 1918
1918-12-30 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 8
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was a dandy. Your wife has them all beaten at making cream pie tho. Ooh la! la! They have to call on her for help. I was so amused at Father when I put on my wraps to go home. I forgot to put on my rubbers and he said, "Young woman, didn't you wear any rubbers on your feet?" I immediately put them on and when he saw them he sniffed and remarked, "Well you may call those slits of things rubbers, but they're not like we wore when I was a girl." By the way dear, do not, under any circumstances leave a tiny bit of your equipment over there. Father and Malen are worrying now for fear you'll discard hats or -- anything. Father was saying last night if he had only saved some things from the Civil War how much they'd mean to him now. That's not all! We must
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was a dandy. Your wife has them all beaten at making cream pie tho. Ooh la! la! They have to call on her for help. I was so amused at Father when I put on my wraps to go home. I forgot to put on my rubbers and he said, "Young woman, didn't you wear any rubbers on your feet?" I immediately put them on and when he saw them he sniffed and remarked, "Well you may call those slits of things rubbers, but they're not like we wore when I was a girl." By the way dear, do not, under any circumstances leave a tiny bit of your equipment over there. Father and Malen are worrying now for fear you'll discard hats or -- anything. Father was saying last night if he had only saved some things from the Civil War how much they'd mean to him now. That's not all! We must
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