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Show Alberta Frshman 6-3 p.6 hammock to keep your shoes in. Or if you wanted them polished, you put them down underneath and they'd always be polished in the morning. To me, planes are wonderful and they're fastJand I love them. But it was great to see how the berths were made up and t-- it was just like magic. Allof a sudden become bedroom and in no time at all, You wouldn't see any trace of beds or blankets or mattressses or anything. All be put up in the ceiling J near the wall. It took 3 days to get to New York. But I loved the traveling. And i nthe train and the dining cars all had menues on the table and yet it was formally served and very goo~ood.But I always had oatmeal when my mother took us back and I still love oatmeal. It always seemed special even though we had it at home. Because we had it on;tPain. But when I went back with my aunt to leave my family when JC ~ seven, my Aunt Hanna, said, •' t ,, do you want mahmalade. She didnt pronounce the "r" in marmalade.~because she was from the east.~nd it sounded 1 ike my .,mothet)• •1fflama" I called her.And I thought that must be good,~mamalade~So she ordered it for me for my roll. And when I did taste it, I really didn't like it at all. gut I thought,~it's 11Jlamalade:1 I better like it! L Oh, that's funny. I could see that. A But toward the end of the year, I said, IJsure like to hear my mother and my brothers and Daddy :IV\ the phone and my unc 1 e Harry who was i nthe fish rna rket and doing well, said, "Oh, would you? We'll call her." He was very much-- very im- 6 .. ~ pulsive that way~ He'd do it immediately. So~ called.tTheconnections were not as good i nthose days, so that we just managed to hear each other and say, "hello, how are you ... " and that's .. and then we'd go to the next one. But atleast that was a little satisfying. And I did try to write my mother, a-t Jfthough I'm afraid like most children, I didn't write as often as I shoudl. But she did write all the time, every week. And she had a beautiful penmanship. It made me think of a poem, I thin~it's in your last book that I have about your grandmother and her writing because my mother wrote just beautifuly. Even before she died, she would sit sometimes and practice .her letters. She was very proud and we were proud of her +d/( writing and when we ~ back our report cards, atleast I would show my mother's signature to some of my friends, because I was vry proud of her. L She must have had beautiful handwriting. . _j- . - !.).- >?• .• ·'-V~ . \... much more attention to 1t.,:_ ..--.... .._ · · ·, · i .... S" ... - 1.(:0 .~ '' A Yes, we did. In those days you had to have a certain styl~ef Sp~o1i~ style,~ rro.~.L ~ P~ ,,. ~· R. style, and even when I taught school we paid much,Aattention to penmanship. There was a set time to teach it and I don't think there is anymore. I think now they're allgetting to write like doctors! L Illegibly. I was curious--there was a 1ttle part of the story you left out. You said when your father saw your mother~said he'd come back for her. What t happened. |
