Aberration of Starlight

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Dear Katie,

Thanks for your lovely postcard. Atlantic City must be beautiful this time of the year and what a relief it must be to get out of the hot city for a few days. Poppa was saying last night that he wishes you would think it over about coming up here for a week in August or more, if you want. There’s plenty of room and I know you’d enjoy it because you always have.

It’s funny here without Momma God rest her soul and I think that Poppa really feels it but he won’t say a word just plays his croquet as usual beating everybody. The Sapurty’s are here and Grace is still the same accident looking for a place to happen that she always was, trying to look like a school girl. There’s another family here through the second week of August a nice woman and her husband and, their two girls who are both Boy Crazy. Specially the oldest girl who makes a spectacle of herself at the lake with any thing that wears pants. Her father eats like a stevedore as he sure wants to get his moneys worth. You remember Helga Schmidt? Well, she is here too, the heart broken widow and it is pitifull to see how she is playing up to Poppa who doesn’t even know she is alive.

Eleanor and Dave Warren will be married in the Fall. Eleanor is still homely as sin but Dave would not win any beauty contests either so, they seem to be a match. God love them. There is another man here and the gossip according to Grace Sapurty and her Big Mouth is that he just got a divorce. He seems to be a real gentleman to me and has taken a shine to Billy and they get along together just like ham and eggs. He has a real sense of humor. Next week he is going to drive us on an outing to High Point. Remember going there when we were just girls? They were happier days God knows.

Well that seems to be all the news for now. Write to me and let me know how Leonard is doing with that back of his and drop a line to Poppa too? And really think it over about coming up for a week anyway. Say hello to Leonard and Arthur and Janet and give them my love.

Marie