Wed 28 Dec 1921
Mary's Journal Entry
we all washed clouded up clothes did not dry well
Letter Sent Home
[Letter started on 27 Dec and completed on 28 Dec]
Dear ones at home,
Pa finished pict. yes. so are sending you some one of each tho’t you might enjoy tem more than New Years cards. Steve just read in the paper they have had over 15 in. of water in Escondido, so J.P. had the same San Diego is cut off bridges all gone the worst rain Calif. had ever known (Rather unusual for Calif.) Steve always says up on Mount Wilson, 24 in. think what it means all that water coming down hill it just takes every thing in its path stones & dirt wash down & just cover the roads. good old New York can’t keep up. it rained hard all this A.M. about 11:30 Pa come in & said come on I want to show you some water so Pa & I put on our coats & he drove over on one of the principle St. for three or four blocks the water was a foot deep from curb to curb pa drove thru it & we called on Leon’s a minute then coming back he got water on Lizzie’s lungs & strangled her so we had to sit in the middle of it. lucky for pa he had got out of the deep water but when a car went by the wave would go across the high place pa was standing on. we sat there about 20 min. before she would even cough. we had fun just the same. got home just as the girls were going to eat their dinner 12:45. I have not done much today don’t care to very much maby will get my ambition some time. if it clears up we will go over to Len’s a couple of days this week. I ought to wash a little (plenty of water) they did not send to the laundry this week both girls home I heard Eunice complaining about the washing & would not be surprised if it went yet. the three here makes more fuss over one young one it makes you sick. Helen knows all about children just how to feed them & just how often she was in Dr. office just long enough to know it all. Eunice knows all about them too but is perfectly willing some one else should do it. give her bath & all when they are both here she likes to have Helen take care of her & little Helen is ten times worse than when they are both gone. Poor Phebe don’t know any thing how to feed or care for kids after raising 7 of her own. it makes you sick. but she can wash & iron all the time she knows how to do that. Eunice don’t half appreciate what her mother does for her then on the other hand Eunice is the main spoke the only one earning anything she bo’t the place & as far as I know has all bills to pay. the three girls have gone over to Leon’s tonight. Eunice, Helen & Golda. don’t know whether you get them straight if you can’t ask me. Dortha is getting over chicken pox. they are to have the girls (little) adanoids out Fri. I believe & believe me I wont be here if I can help it they will make me wild Dr. did not come today so no test in three weeks. well don’t know whether I will write again this week or not. hope you are all well. we are.
Mother & Dad
Wed. 28th
Mother & the rest washing sun shone this morn now Hellen wants to know what they will do with all the clothes Florence please send me statement as to money you have banked I get mixed on it all O.K.
Pa