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Show 24 9 whose room overlooks the waterfront. She has been visited in Ocean Park by daughter Ellis and desires that Nellie and her family soon have the same opportunity. Somehow Nellie has forgotten to tell her whether "those people are still at 713"-if not, she may need to return to Salt Lake to see that the place gets rented again. Two days later, having been a guest of her old Salt Lake friend, Lillie Freeze, Ellis is waiting at the Los Angeles train station for a return to Gridley where her prospects of earning money are better than they have been at Ocean Park. "You know what my goal is, my darling, don't you? freedom from the bondage of debt and return to my priceless treasures in our own dear blessed home." (This is a 72-year-old mother speaking to a married daughter who has a family of her own.) This letter, like all of her letters, is richly embroidered with expressions of her interest in and love for her extended family. No detail is too small for her comment; no tidbit of information which has been given her gets passed over. Darling, try to count your blessings although these are trying days for you such as all mothers have. I had them too but kept praying and struggling and striving and pleading with the Lord to give me a chance to bring out of my nature its highest possibilities-making it that which would prove the best good of those dependent upon me for their highest advancement. By mid April Ellis writes from Shelley, Idaho that though the weather has been terrible she has been "entertained with he very best and carried from place to palce in automobiles accompanied by bishops and their wives and Relief Society presidents." |