Send to Mother
312 No. Second Street
Millville N.J.
Sun. P.M.
Dear Lib-a-the, [Elizabeth]
Well I ‘spose that after two or three continued all day and all night sieges you have at last gotten packed off and are “there” at last. I was surely going to write a letter earlier in the week so that it would be there for you Sat. but if you ever knew how busy I’ve been. Never worked so hard in my life. I really haven’t had a chance to breathe all this week. Don't let anybody ever tell you it's easy work teaching school. I don't think
there can be anything harder. Guess it will probably be easier after I get used to it. The conditions here in the school are terribly crowded and they have to have the two single sessions like they have been having to have in so many schools. The Seniors, Juniors and Soph's come in the morning from 8 to 12 and the freshman from 12:45 to 5 in the PM. Some of the teachers have just afternoon work and some just morning. But you See, I have both. So I have to be there in the AM from 9:20 to 12 and in the PM from 2 to 5. I have a study hall to start off with in the AM, but it isn't half bad. I'm not terribly crazy about the principle so far, but Mr. Sickles is great.
It's awfully nice here where we are. It's in the best section of town and just one block back from the main business street and one block from the school and a Method., Presby. and Baptist Church. The tutor who is to live here has arrived, and she is very typical, prim and proper and from Boston. But guess she won't bother us any. Miss Orvis is very nice and the French teacher, Miss Eulenstein From Brooklyn, lives with Mrs. Mayhew's sister on the other side of the house and eats here too. Then a Miss Stern the history teacher lives next door and eats here. So there are 5 of us eating here. Miss Eulenstein is young and not school teacherfied. Graduated from Cornell and taught 3 years at Weston College for women in Ohio. You would never think it to see here. She seems to have travelled quite a bit, San Francisco, New Orleans, etc. but I haven’t had a chance to get terribly well acquainted yet. Miss Stern lives here in N.j> between here and Philadelphia and is real nice but quite proper. She just graduated from Univ. of Penn this year and this is her first year too. There are a lot of teachers (H.S. and grammar) who are home teachers. There is an awfully nice girl who lives here and is the Eng. Teacher. This is her first year and she is Pi Phi from Univer. Of Virginia.
Your suit sounded good. Why did you think Id be mad because you got it. Didn’t I pick out a blue suit for myself. But I suppose yours is a lot darker. It all sounded real swell anyhow.
How’s the weather up there. If its anything like it is here to-day you’ll certainly enjoy wearing it.
It’s the hottest day we’ve had down here. I’m wondering how much you have worn your clothes according to the schedule.
Hope you could get registered and fixed up Sat. You’ll have time Mon. and Tues. if you didn’t. I wouldn’t advise you to take Latin but you’ll want to start French or Spanish. Try to get hold of one of the oratory school girls and ask them what course you could take in school of oratory outside your liberal arts work. Then go to Prof. Tilroe about it. He’s awfully big and burly but he’s nice.
I don't know anything about whether they'd let anyone do it or not. You will take Eloc. I Anyhow, but maybe they will let you take something more advanced along with it if you ask to. Of course you wouldn't get college credit for it. (At least I think not.) Cathy Wilcox is in oratory, but she probably wouldn't be able to tell you much about it.
I'll be anxious to hear about everything from you. Don't leave out any details. Go to Y. W. and Org. meeting and all the freshman doings. Don’t get one-sided and don’t think you have to think the way everyone else does. It’s easy to “go with the crowd” in college. Write me about everybody I know. I’ll eat “Daily Oranges” right up to if I get a chance. [Syracuse’s color is orange. I assume this is referring to this in some way]
Heaps of love,
Marion
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