Friday night Nov 1
My dearest darlingest Maurie
I have just been to dinner with Elenor Carey, and had a pretty good time, but they were never have as good things to eat there as we do at Mrs Whitlocks!
Yesterday night was haloean (is that how you spell it?) and the sophomores each year play a joke on the freshmen. We wondered what it would be this year. Finally when we went to the supper table, at each plate there was a tiny dress-suit case. Inside there was a little doll dressed in green and a little printed book bound in green and entitled “Diary of Eva Maurie Freak 1905.” It was full of funny hits at the freshmen and we all roared as we read it.
To morrow night the Juniors


2.
give a party for the freshmen. Everyone is supposed to go as a nation, that is a nationality. Well, we thought that would by sort of hard to do so we girls at Whitlock’s decided to go as Mrs Carrie Nation and Family. Here is the cast
Carrie Nation Mary Pratt
Mr [Nation] M. Starr
Conster [Nation] Ella Meyer - boy
Combi [Nation] Grace + Phyllis twins
Cora [Nation] Florence Stapf
Indig [Nation] Cerene
Perigri [Nation] E. Comstock
Imagi [Nation] A. Hardick
Halluci [Nation] Sella Hubbard - boy
Condem [Nation] Lois Veile
Machi [Nation] Grace Norcross - boy
Alie [Nation] Edith Talent
Desti [Nation] Ella Ost
Culmi [Nation] friend of Amy
Expla [Nation] Ethel Parrott, Grace’s little sister who is visiting her
Vacci [Nation] Peg Shipp - boy


I am going to be kodaked in my costume. I shall wear my hair tucked up under so as to look about as long as Natalies. A great enough straw hat with red streamers, my gym suit with white sailor collar and enormous red tie. Red belt and red shoes and stockings. Ha! ha!


3.
I composed a song for us to sing as we come in, to the tune Bulah [yale].
Behold this wondrous family
Assembled here to night
We all are Nations as you see
And carry hatchets as is right
Behold the famous Carrie here
And her husband dumb with fear
Now you will soon know each one’s name
For we shall tell you of the same
Chorus
Consternation, Combination
These names need no
Explanation
Coronation, Indignation
Imagination
‘Tis even so!
Machination, Condemnation
Culmination, Destination
Hallucination, Alienation
Peregrination, Vacination[Vaccination]!!!


Cerene is going to take a flash-light picture of us in our costumes and I will send you one as soon as they are done.


4.
Saturday morning.
I had to stop writing last night to go to a party given by Ella Ost and Florence Stapf where we had an awfully good time and drank chocolate and ate cake! I recited Brer Wolf says Grace, and they seemed to like it. Mrs Parrott and daughter Ethel aged 14 came yesterday to stay till Monday. They are both awfully nice. So was Grace’s father.
I have been just as busy as could be all morning helping Grace and Phyllis make their costumes and painting a little sign for each girl with her name on it. We are all going to wear one. Won’t VACCI be a cute name? Grace + Phyllis are twins and their dresses are bright green with yellow moons.


5.
They are made on a yoke, hanging straight down you know, and just come to their knees.
Lately the girls in the cottage have been more together. Everyone of them has good points and it is lots more fun than to be so cliquey.
This is the end of the first six weeks, and the teachers send flunk notes, that is notes saying that you need a tutor, to girls who have not gotten along well. You would be surprised at how many girls tutor here, but I didn’t get any such epistles. My math instructor said I was doing very well. My English teacher said I had my material very well in hand. My greek is said to be pretty good, and though I haven’t heard from Latin, I’m not worrying about that.
I see I left out a page of the letter I sent this morning so I will send it now.


Mamie, Phyllis + Polly both want a picture of me so can you send me 2 of mine, one side and one front view?


5.
Our work in English so far has been entirely descriptive composition and it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here are some of the subjects that have been given us.
Describe a Street Scene
[Describe] The Noise made by a Street Car
[Describe] A Sunset
[Describe] A Country Road
[Describe] An Accident
Of course if there is any action it has to be arrested action. For my accident I took a little boy’s falling off a sled which was hitched on being a sleigh, and his sled’s going off without him. She said it was very good. For the street scene I took a hurdy gurdy and children. She read this one in class. There are two girls in the class who are perfect geniuses. They do write splendidly! They have travelled a lot through and


6.
have seen more unusual and interesting things to describe. One of them, a Miss Howe, was not [tremed] by having to write essays, but by studying the great essayists. The plan certainly worked well.
I feel so sorry for Mrs Donnan! I hope her book will be a success.
The girls can have young men any day but Sunday, and then if he is a brother or fiancee. Mr Fulton is very very nice. I have not seen him enough to know whether or not he is clever but he is polished, good-looking, and very sweet and gentle. He is studying very hard at law.
Well, I have to manufacture some paper hatchets now so with love to yourself and dad
“Ever thine”
Peggie
None of the girls are homesick anymore


Rule about men
Most informative
Wonderful nation party
6 weeks over
POUGHKEEPSIE, NOV 2 130O 1901 N.Y.
Miss Shipp
1010 N. Delaware St
Indianapolis
Indiana