Late January 1919

Dear Don,

Am sitting here on my feet trying to keep them warm. Gosh the flu left it's traces on me. I really think I'm slightly deaf for I have to have things spoken a few times before I hear them.

From my knees down I'm absolutely frozen. I can't keep warm, my legs and feet feel just like icicle.

Edith has been left with heart trouble, but having no heart, that couldn't bother me. [Sidebar: (Where is Leones heart? I've been trying to find out and she said "ask Don.) Spoofing!]

Gosh every one writes and tells me to be careful or I'll get a relapse and Dad cheeringly wrote about a girl who died the next day after she went outdoors - after the flu so today was the big Day but you can't kill a good Scotchman and I'm here to write the tale.

No more flu for mine. If I get down again, I give up cause, gosh, can't get a nurse here and I'd be docked in salary and life wouldn't be worth the effort.

I heard from Ruth once. She has never mentioned the Xmas presents and I have written a couple of times. I'd like to be able to at least write and thank Mary and Lela but don't know what to thank them for. If you go home, get a hold of them and send them, please.

One of the teachers who had the flu is still unable to even sit up. Gosh I'm lucky!

Here they work a guy to death, sick or no sick. I'm going to put in my application for some other positions. I may get in a worse place but heck! I can't live in this no-man's O.M. Town all my life.

Edith is coming home with me for a couple of weeks this summer and then I'm going home with her and visit a while. I wrote and asked Ruth and she said to bring her along if she could stand the comfies of old sanitary. She said Harold was pretty fond of chickens and she has some scared to have me bring her.

She's a pretty good dame after you get acquainted with. Gosh she and I are surely congenial. She's so blooming good natured and does so much for he, rather youngish but that helps some when I'm getting so old.

Must quit and get a hot water bottle and go to bed. Gosh I'm freezing.

Write me often.

Lovingly, Leone

P.S. Anita Meltzer was rather dumbish and never made her grades.