Editor's Notes
Duvetyne is a twill fabric with a velvet-like nap on one side.
In English Class
Dearest mother,
It is so convenient to be in a rambling lecture course. I went down to see Alice the minute she arrived last night and I was much tickled with the “box.” It tasted great and we had Helen and Grace come up. Thanks too for the cookies.
I had a letter from Marion and it seems that she has been suffering from the lack of mail like all of us. Wasn't it a shame she couldn't go to the Princeton Harvard game? We have no classes tomorrow and at least a half holiday Friday.
I think Frank might talk the team and the Oxfordians [Oxford is a village about 20 miles from Earlville] into putting off that game. It is positively the last big thing he can be here for. Friday night, the Colgate-Syracuse Glee Clubs are giving a joint concert in the Onondaga ballroom and then dancing until 12. I'll let him go to that if he wants to.
The Tatler is fine. I sat right down with my coat and hat (by the way, I have a new one) and read it. If I can find any suggestions for improvement or for editorials, I'll send them down. I'm trying for the Onondaga now and next year want to drop the Orange and get into something different before I get too one-sided.
As to the hat, it is real schwell. I went the whole length of Salina St. and every side street to find it, so it ought to be. I was downtown just looking for a hat from 1:00 o'clock until 4:00, and Gertrude and Lucille were looking for ones too. It is a wonderful quality duvetyn just the shade of my coat. The crown is soft, and it has a rather narrow brim that turns up the least little bit all around. It doesn't roll but like this. [Diagram in letter] This brim is faced with a very pretty shade of great silk and the light color looks well next to my face. Of course it had to have feathers on it. They are blue and just come to and over the edge a little. Everyone likes it a lot.
I had a real exciting weekend, As I went to a Sims Hall dance with an awfully nice SAE chap whom I met last year at a dance with Bob. He is the one who asked me to go to the SAE Easter dance last year, the night I was going home. Sunday morning, Bob called up and asked me to go walking.
The last of this letter has been written later and I have had the most terrible long French quiz that I could chew carpet tacks.
Lots of Love,
Betty
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