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Show MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER 142 am very bitter in my heart. Colorado has separated Harold.16 me from The May 11: Tonight I feel better, right with the world. rest has improved me. Barnard is able to be up. True, Elizabeth came home from school with a temperature, but she has a sore throat. They are still wild little (mixed) brats, but I feel today that in time and with rest I can cope with them. Julia is improving and her meals are divine. She watches the diet too. Aunt Annie's letter crystallized my deci sion to go home immediately when school closes. "Act as if it were impossible to fail." From "Wake Up and Live" [a 1936 musical by Dorothea Brande]." A week later, May 18, was the birthday of her younger sister, Ruth. Madelyn wrote: Thinking of her and all she accomplishes lets me realize that I am just plain lazy. I use my leg and my health as an excuse. Mother was always telling me that I knew what place to was paved with good intentions. Well, I am always going do things, and I'm going through particular hell. Maybe that's my chief trouble. I am irritable and nervous, because I don't feel myself doing things. This morning Elizabeth's teacher called to say that Elizabeth [who was six] had reported that little brother had scarlet fever and the quarantine sign was put up yesterday. All day I debated what to do. I finally decided only a whip with a willow would be sufficiently impressive. She ping objected at first and for a few minutes afterwards. Then she the was eager to be agreeable and behaved nicely the rest of afternoon. Barnard sucks his thumb constantly. But I have decided to simply ignore it and try to make life interesting for him." The next day: Tonight Harold and I came near to a real quarrel. I had counted all day on meeting him to look at a house. Then he |
