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Show 38 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER and dance lessons. But by January 1915 she had quit. During the winter she went ice skating, sledding outside, and swimming in the at an indoor (she took swimming les pool gymnasium ward sons). She attended dances held by the school and by the character were There balls, and, at age thirteen, even had dates. dances, surprise parties, and "soft shirt" dances. She pack apron had the mumps in the spring of 1915. When school was out in May that year, she and her classmates chanted: No more pencils, no more books. No more teachers with cross-eyed looks. In her diary Madelyn was sufficiently self-conscious that her for October 1915-she was still fourteen-has her diary entry describing herself: I am tall, quite slender, with medium sized feet, but enor tell me they're not very large, but I know mous hands. People better. Oh well, perhaps I'll grow up to 'em some day. I have times look almost green), a straight nose, grey eyes (which at even white teeth, and a chin which makes my pliant mouth, face look long. My hair is a dark, hazy color, verging to a black. I think my hair gives me more trouble than anything else. I can't do it to suit Mama, it seems. I do it every way, and still it won't suit. About one time in ten I suit her, but then I don't like it." Just as self-consciously, in November she was telling her diary: I'm dying to go to a dance and have a perfectly devoted to see how it is, you know. I don't imagine I'd partner, just like a boy that was too devoted. I'd like to meet a fellow and have him get positively infatuated with me, invite me to go to should send flowers for me a party or something. He pig-out and call for me in his motor car. Wouldn't this be a lark? And then he'd continue sending flowers and candy and to wear, |
