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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, October-December 1943

1943-11-28 Page 2

or very dirty because every time I look out a man is hanging clothes out to dry. The line runs up to an upper window and is very tricky.
The window to the north looks out on a wooded ravine with little chicken houses here and there in it. I should judge that the good citizens of Shirley, like those of University Heights, thought it wise to grow their own meat.
The people at the house are very nice. Mrs. Smith, my landlady, asked three officers' wives and me down to Thanksgiving breakfast. We had grapefruit with a cherry, waffles with creamed chicken, coffee, and peach upside down cake. Her house is lovely, & her dining room was all rose and silver, with long, narrow windows & nice china and silver. The wives, Netta & Dora & Helen, are very sociable and always ask me to go with them or with the group when their husbands are free.
I was disgusted Friday night, because they wanted me to go to a formal at the officer's club & I wanted to go the worst way. I'd had my second typhoid shot that morning, however, & my arm was pretty sore. The thought of getting it bumped was too much for me so I stayed home.

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or very dirty because every time I look out a man is hanging clothes out to dry. The line runs up to an upper window and is very tricky. The window to the north looks out on a wooded ravine with little chicken houses here and there in it. I should judge that the good citizens of Shirley, like those of University Heights, thought it wise to grow their own meat. The people at the house are very nice. Mrs. Smith, my landlady, asked three officers' wives and me down to Thanksgiving breakfast. We had grapefruit with a cherry, waffles with creamed chicken, coffee, and peach upside down cake. Her house is lovely, & her dining room was all rose and silver, with long, narrow windows & nice china and silver. The wives, Netta & Dora & Helen, are very sociable and always ask me to go with them or with the group when their husbands are free. I was disgusted Friday night, because they wanted me to go to a formal at the officer's club & I wanted to go the worst way. I'd had my second typhoid shot that morning, however, & my arm was pretty sore. The thought of getting it bumped was too much for me so I stayed home.