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Letters to Barbara MaxwellEntry/Object ID
2021.2.589Scope and Content
A four page letter, handwritten on both sides from Marilyn Maxwell, St. Joseph, Mo. to Miss Barbara Ann Maxwell, Columbia, Missouri, dated April 21st Wednesday and postmarked April 22nd, 1953. The stationary and envelope are light pink. The envelope has a 3¢ and written diagonally beneath sender's address is "Why Don't We Teach Honesty?"Context
Queridisima,
Whew! Summer is here! It is "hotter'n the hinges", . . . a wonderful, sunny, warm day! , . . . . , we had the car washed . . . ! It was pretty dirty after all the weather it went thru Sunday.
For circle meeting Monday, I was to give the program report on Church Extension. . . I knew nothing whatsoever about it. . . I stopped at church Mon. evening. John was just leaving . . . but he turned around & went back up to his office . . . to get me an "enermous" book with a report from the Board of Church Extension in it. (and) his copy of Sunday's sermon, . . .
I stopped to chat with Joyce Ann, & . . . she told me about her leaving to take the Christian Church job, . . . She will get a $50 a mo. increase, . . . I guess you can't blame her for leaving, . . . .
Things have been happening fast & furiously to me this week. Mr. Wallace . . yesterday . . . ask(ed) me to go with him to the Jr.-Sr. banquet, today he is in the hospital! He had some sort of attack while out driver-training, . . . the kids rushed back to school, they called an ambulance & took him to Mo.-Methodist. He seemed to be partially paralyzed - . . . I surely hope he gets over it, . . . doubt he'll recover . . . before next Thursday! . . . . .
Isn't it something that everything happens at once & neither Fred not Vic can go? . . . . .
We haven't had any more office news lately, but Daddy is to go to a meeting of all the Western Division construction heads in K. C. the 11th & 12th of May. . . . we plan to come down & celebrate his birthday and Mother's day at once on the 10th, . . . he won't be home for his birthday. . . . . I'll have to talk with you this Sat
Tonight I shall wash my hair - . . . . figured it would look better Sat. if I didn't wash it too early in the week.
Now for John's ideas om "Why don't we teach honesty?" First he quoted from the Louisville Journal, . . .. How can we expect the youth to act honestly when the very system . . . involved is dishonest? . . . .
If we expect our youth to be honest, we must place him in an honest environment, one in which honesty is only a part of the moral picture, one of many true values. . . . .
. . . I disagreed with some of his remarks, . . . . But I have to admit that many of his remarks were too true, . . . .
Well, ma & I will mail this, as Papa is out of town. . . .
Lots of Love,
Tonight I'm going to stay home & sew on my dress! . . . I'm making the chartreuse & black for the banquet.Lexicon
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