by Chris Evans | December 31, 1921 7:47 pm
[Envelope addressed: Mrs. J.B. Dickey, Saskatchewan, Canada. Postmarked: Worthing 6 AM 9 Jan 1922 Stamp removed.]
Dec. 31st 1921
Meols, 3 Centurion Drive.
Dear Janet;
Your nice letter came this morning. I wish you could have the rest you need, if you could only follow slatternly ways, neglect everything, but I believe you would suffer more then! Try and eat butter & eggs & cream, and I am sorry you have to bake for me, let them buy bread. It was some comfort to charge $2.50, not a bit too much. I hope the Mortons are satisfied now, they have put the Deans to great expense at the cost of publishing to the world Mary’s – indiscretions – it won’t hurt Fred’s character because every body knows he would do whatever he could when he got a chance.
I was glad to get your letter & the children’s this morning, very, very sorry that your health was such as it was.
We are having rather a dull time here, rather far from Liverpool, costs about 50 cents every time we go over, either under the Mersey or over on the ferry. Capt. Hewson & Barbara have season tickets. Barbara is working late these days, the last of the year. Next week we start out on our real travels, being near Liverpool at Birkenhead, and then we go to Worthing, then to London & France, then to York & Scotland. We came away with no more notion of Mrs. McDonald’s address than that it had something like “Goosie” in the name & that it was in Scotland, we have it now & a letter from Mrs. McDonald, the place is “Kingussie.” She cannot get over the news of Amy’s twin boys.
Geoffrey’s 19th birthday to-day, he & Brian cut up split & sawed the stump of an old elm tree yesterday. Geoffrey was quite ill the first week here, but is nearly quite well now. They trot Papa out for walks. It blew a gale last night & rained (it rains every day) tore a hole 30 yds. wide through the embankment & promenade. The little girl next door has a doll’s house, all furnished with a bath room & tubs & electric light. But those doll’s houses soon lose their charm & cost a lot.
Papa’s collars & ties are being improved. A good remedy for a cough is from 10 to 15 drops of Friar’s balsam on a lump of sugar, cured Geoffrey’s & mine in no time, suck the sugar slowly.
Capt. Hewson thinks he has the very nicest family in the world, and they are nice, too, so kind. It takes too much brain power to write letters to four grandchildren, so won’t try it this time, but send them my love.
Your loving mother
Alice Cairns.
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