Blue Ink Letter
Dear Don,
Nothing is to good for you so here goes right on my perfectly new stationary.
I've been so blooming busy I simply have had time to talk to you. I got your letter this a.m. and I had begun to wonder why you didn't write. I've been so blooming busy I hardly know my name. I guess I told you all about our flu epidemic. So far I'm not a victim, but no telling. Feel tonight like I could fall to anything.
Gosh, I have an idea now what army life is. This awful routine I'm going thru day after day. Edythe has been sick for over a week. I took care of her and finally telegraphed her mother. I gave her baths, emptied her "private toilet" etc. until now I'm a full fledged nurse. I was nearly ready to collapse by the time her mother came for in additon to all this I have charge of Diet Kitchen over at school - get the noon lunch for about thirty teachers and plan dinner every night at the Club. At last we have a cook coming tomorrow and that will relieve my duties a heap.
I was glad to hear about your good fortune in getting recommended to O.T.C. Maybe it will all come out right yet. I think so. Gee I hope peace has been declared at last. I do think it would be grand to get "over there" but think of all the terrible things you will escape. I'll enclose a letter I got from Elizabeth and I shall expect fifty cents in return for the compliments passed on. It doesn't seem possible its so near Thanksgiving and then Christmas. Do you think that you will get home for that? I'm afraid I'd better spend mine in Biwabik. Then I can do something real exciting next summer.
I think the School Board better tack a bunch of money on our salaries for the work we are doing now. Mr. Lums [sic] sure makes me as peeved as ever. I like my work in this school so much but I can't teach under that Kaiser another year that's a cinch. I'm going to start early in the spring looking for something worth while.
Edythe's mother is a grand woman but she worries too much about Edythe. She's the kind that has such high ideals for her daughter she'd drive them to the dogs. She was bound to take my temp. tonight so I let her and it registered 99 1/5 and she was sure I am sick enough to take castor oil. I told her I was too much of a Christian Scientist for that.
Must go to bed and get lots of rest.
Write oftener,
Much love,
Leone.
P.S. You didn't tell me anything about M.C.