DID YOU EVER BANG YOUR NAIL? If your nail is banged hard, it turns blue, for a blood vessel has been injured, causing bleeding under the nail. In time, the nail loosens, comes off, and a new nail gradually forms underneath it. But if the special cells which have the power of making the nail are injured, no new nail can form again.
Perhaps I am selfish, without a thought for anyone in the world but myself. I'm sorry you think that of me, Daddy. But you have said several things today that are not like you so I should worry. You said that John has changed me and you even damned him. God bless him. God bless him. He thinks I can't be improved.
DID YOU EVER BANG YOUR NAIL? If your nail is banged hard, it turns blue, for a blood vessel has been injured, causing bleeding under the nail. In time, the nail loosens, comes off, and a new nail gradually forms underneath it. But if the special cells which have the power of making the nail are injured, no new nail can form again.
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A S.S. lesson on the Virgin Mary. What a blessed woman she was. Do we Protestant women think enough about her? I had not realized until today that I was born for you, John. You are nine months older than I. As soon as you were born, God must have taken one of your ribs and began to make me! Yes, I was made for you, Adam, but I pray that I might have an influence quite different from Eve's.
What shall we do tonight? Play cards? The Aldine? What a pleasant surprise, I just loved "Don Juan" but the "Vitaphone"* was marvelous. Yes, the first I have ever heard. When I am about eighty years old, I will tell the then "younger generation" that I remember the first Vitaphone. How old they will think I am. You have waited since last Sat. and have really wanted it. It has been a long, very long week. What do my kisses mean to you, John?
*The latest, high tech sound systems for movies. DETECTING CRIME THROUGH FINGERPRINTING is based on the fact that there are very apparent differences in the patterns of the little ridges on the fingers of different persons. Two identical patterns from two different individuals have never yet been found. At home, a nap before dinner and my (?) washed after dinner. Yes, I dried dishes tonight and I didn't mind it so much. Who would object to washing a few "pretty" dishes of her own in a "pretty little kitchen"! House work isn't so bad but I like the office too. Wore my coat today for the first time.
"Friendly" again. Our little play is coming along splendidly. "Just be yourself." Am I just like Claire, the New York "deb"? I should and it is my fault if I have no dignity and culture because I have the background or foundation on which to build it. When I have made something of myself, then I may use my middle name.
BANKING TERMS-XI: Collateral Trust Bonds - Bonds secured by pledge of stocks and other bonds. Convertible - Used in referring to a bond issue, this term signifies that bonds of this issue may be exchanged at the holder's option into stock or other bond issues. Coupon bonds - Bonds, the interest on which is collected by means of coupons. How fickle we mortals are. Last evening, I tried to make myself dislike you but tonight - I love John. I love you. You are so thoughtful. While the rest of the family was in the country, we enjoyed ourselves here, alone. That cold! But you wanted to! And if you do not get rid of it by Saturday - suicide? How cold and gray the grate is tonight.
Charlotte and I both bought spring coats today. What could pleasure a lady more? Yes, I am dull, not at all well-read, no even on movies. You seemed very impatient with me tonight, John. I really can't blame you but you are usually very patient even if I am dull, stupid, and incapable of thinking. I know you have a cold and probably feel a wreck but you are tiring of me. I felt more like weeping than I ever have. But I am too indifferent and too proud to let it bother me.
BANKING TERMS-X: Sell at the market - Order to broker giving him authority to sell at the best obtainable price. Selling short - Selling something which the seller does not have with the expectation of buying in time to make delivery. Blue Monday? Perhaps. - no not blue. I have been thinking of you all day, John, and even dreamed of you in my nap before dinner. I dreamed that you were caught in quicksand and I was crying for help. John dear, watch the quicksand of life. Don't let it pull you down but stand up, stand up. I am so proud of you, so proud.
God and a spirit of holiness was as much with us on our walk as it would have been in church. Of course Mother did not think that we were trying to deceive her. She said that "the fresh air did us good." You taught Alice and I a new dance step, we ate, talked, daddy described a tipsy cake and brother impersonated a Jew.* Which part of the evening did you enjoy the most? The church service? Ah, you even got to make a speech.
*Here I officially apologize for my ancestors. BANKING TERMS - IX: Common Stock - Stock upon which dividends are paid only after all interest and preferred stock dividends have been met. Preferred Stock - One which receives dividends prior to common stock. Saturday - with the usual problem - What shall we do? Cards again. I needed another lesson in bridge but with you across from me I cannot keep my mind on the cards. And after we had some cake and stood at the dining room window watching the moon, we retired to the parlor as usual. So you think I have a pretty foot! Too much business. Damn time. Curfew rang.
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
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