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Show your jobs. Mine is for sale mighty cheap-if any of you want it, I shall be glad to confer with you. You know I am Assistant Principal of the High School here, teach General History, Grammar, Civics, Rhetoric, Physiology U. S. History; salary, microscopic. You may judge of my effect upon the children when I tell you that one boy was heard to announce that I was twenty-eight if I was a day! So you see they respect me because of my great age. But enough of me and my work. Since last June I have seen more than half the members of '98. Lollie Whitman is back in Des Moines now, and we visit every week when I am home. Then I have seen poor Georgia when she has escaped from the slow torture she is enduring at Spencer. I visited in Grinnell at the time of the S. U. I. game, and saw enough 'gSers to make things seem quite a little natural. Doesn't it seem at least ten years since our last picnic? My! What a hot, sticky, windy day that was! I hope you have all forgotten what a spectacle I made on horseback that day. I have outgrown all such youthful follies now, I assure you. Hope the letter will be in print soon, for I am so anxious to hear from you all. I know what a great many of you are doing, but there are some from whom I have heard nothing at all. How many of you will be in Grinnell for Commencement? Why not have a reunion in '99 and in igoo too? I believe I am the very busiest mortal in seven states, and I can't spend the whole afternoon visiting with my old class, much as I should like to. So, as Rip says, "May you all live long and prosper." Very sincerely, MABEL E . FRISBIE. Mitchellville, Iowa, Jan. 30, 1899. |
