Ed called me up at the bank and wanted to escort me home. John, you didn't offer!!!
For a week we have fussed about having to work tonight. It is all over now and we really enjoyed it even though we are tired. My our dinner was tasty. Betty, Eva, Anna and I ate together! Mr. Marshall brought me home! - Mamie thinks I have changed a great deal in the past year or so! For the worse, too! Oh God, help me to be something worthwhile! I do seem so useless in this world!
Ed called me up at the bank and wanted to escort me home. John, you didn't offer!!!
0 Comments
Give me the good living middle class "blue blood" or no "blue blood"* - what had it done for us! The Whiteheads are crazy and they are "blue bloods." What caused the insanity in the "Forbes" family? There may not be insanity in my family but I have not time for a string of ancestors.
*an aristocrat, noble, or someone from a socially prominent family. YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS-VII: July 23 - August 23 - Sign is Leo, governed by the Sun. Astral colors, green and red. People of this period are domestic, emotional, happy, sensitive, hopeful of the best. Sunny dispositions, love music, flowers and art. Will bear trouble rather than fight it, so find it hard to overcome obstacles. Your brother from Georgia is with you today. My aunt from Virginia is with us! She is interesting, I love to hear her talk, she has so much "news." And still I am lonely. Though she did not tell me so, she likes you very much, John.
Mamie is here with a fifteen-hundred dollar ruby ring. "What is that?" Oh, what is it? My most valuable possession. What is it, John? Is that what it means? You have waited since Wednesday for it. So have I! I wonder if you have thought of me as often as I have thought of you since Wednesday. Yes, another new dress! A pink one. I can feel your hands now holding my face. And your ever fresh kisses mean much to you. "The world." And so much to me!
June 22-July 23 (cont.) - Have poor memory and do not like to study but are fine at work requiring skill. Good common sense, persistent will and purpose. Good intuitions, inclined to be changeable. Extremely sensitive. Truest companions are Aries, Taurus and Gemini. - John - on every page of my life!*
*written diagonally across the page. John Arnold Wilson.*
*Written diagonally across the page. YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS-VI: June 22-July 23 - Cancer is your sign. Moon is your planet. Astral colors, russet brown and green. Domestic, love home, and if properly mated make good husbands and wives. Generally foresighted, good providers, neighborly, and generous. Another evening with you, John! So you really enjoyed "The Mummy and the Mumps."* But what became of Duly(?)? Je t'aime, Je t'aime Jean, Je t'aime.
*a play, "farce in three acts," published in 1925. Together or apart as we are tonight - "I have your faithful heart. You're the one I love."
May 21-June 22 (cont.) - Great tact as leaders. Impetuous and work by streaks. Sociable and adaptable. Of dual nature, generally both happy and unhappy, satisfied and dissatisfied, warm and cold, in love and out, all in the same breath and changeable. Very proud and great readers. Truest companions, Cancer, Virgo and Leo. Perhaps it is the weather. I do not know but my thoughts have been of you all day, John. Even in the midst of my work at the bank I seem to hum, "Dear dear dearer than everything dear to me. Near near nearer my heart you will always be." Mrs. De Voe came around this morning. Fred expects to marry in the fall. Lester will never bother with girls again. I did not know that I would ever break a man's heart. There are plenty of fine girls in the world, Lester. If you will bother to look, you will find one made for you! Even now, John, I can feel your gentle kiss of Sat. when we were dancing.
A year ago I did not know what it was to be lonely when I had the company of my family. Tonight I took a long walk with Mother. I really enjoyed it. Vic came down. We sat on the porch and talked. We danced; and still I have been lonely. I don't know when I have missed you so much, John. Your picture is not a consolation. I can see you better in my "mind's eye." I can see you smiling or pensive, I can feel your arms around me and your warm lips kiss my fingertips. John! Mine!
YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS - V: May 21 - June 22 - Your sign is Gemini, Mercury your planet. Astral colors, red, white, and blue. Theoretical, intellectual, talented, and learn easily. Restless, good at argument and debate. Critical and inclined to find fault. Fine imagination and splendid perceptions. |
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
April 2018
Categories |