Down in the valley of the Wissahickon within the city of Phila. I could have walked all day with you and mother. This day we have been together, side by side in sunshine and in showers, in darkness and in light, in valleys and on hills, riding and on foot, in seriousness and the lightest play, alone (just you and I) and with others, in short clothes and "dressed." Every moment has been a joy. To dance with you and stand by you when you play and sing, to sit close to you. You came to see me seven long months before you ever kissed me! You wanted my friendship - not my lips. To try and kiss me (as much as you wanted to) would have been too great a risk at losing me. But you have made up for it since!! Oh to sleep there on that sofa all night long with you to guard over me, and mine.
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How vividly "that night" has been brought before me again tonight. Your voice telling me that it will not rain tomorrow - the moon is shining bright and silver - telling me to look at it - then rehearsal with music like The Same Silver Moon* and Won't you Marry Marry Me.** I cannot think of My Maryland without thinking of The Student Prince.*** And I can't think of the Student Prince without thinking of two nights that followed - two precious blessings - that have given birth to the countless happy hours and hours of pain.
*Duet from the musical My Maryland, 1927. **Won't You Marry Me, also from My Maryland ***Operetta that opened first on Broadway in 1924 VALUE OF AN EDUCATION - I: Educational experts have proven by statistics that aside from culture and a greater power for enjoyment, the time spent at school and college is worth at least $100,000 to each boy or girl. I'm so glad you will go, Harriet. Pete will be delighted.
What two hearts and a little band of gold can do!! Some folks may say that "business comes first" but business was made, and built, around the hearts that love. Hearts were made to love. Our whole complicated sphere was made for them! Hearts and happiness, then business!! If things are not what they seem to be than what are they? What does it matter what they are. It is what they seem to be that matters.
You could give me a few years of happiness? Are you sure it would be happiness? What is it that moves us to utmost joy or the strongest heart to tears? It is love. THE 1928 READY REFERENCE DIARY is now ready and in the hands of your dealer. Because the demand always exceeds the available supply, please obtain your copy now. Your daddy may have said, "no," but you were right Nancy! My name is "Pal" to your Uncle Jack. My Mother and Dad have been married twenty-two years! and their love grows sweeter every day. How many mothers can tell their daughters that? But if it was not so what would become of the world? We cannot play with "hearts" and be lucky, can we, John?
How blessed we are to own such things as telephones.
Dreaming again! No. 12 - OIL OF CLOVES is for toothaches - a drop on cotton in cavity. Don't think because this stops the pain that your tooth is all right. On the contrary, you should see a dentist as soon as possible for the pain shows you have an exposed nerve through decay. Brushing teeth night and morning will do much to prevent decay and exposure of the nerves to the teeth. I wonder what my parents would think if they could know how frankly we talk with each other? How queer the mind of us humans is! One minute we laugh and talk of the lightest subjects. - The next moment our thoughts, hearts, and voices are on the most beautiful and sacred subjects of the world! Everything is beautiful through love and "unto the pure all things are pure." How much safer and happier the world would be if everyone could (or would?) be more frank.
And so it is with the world. A man may have a harder time to live a good sweet life than does a woman - but if he loses - then how much harder it is for her! If we had been in their place you would not have left me - but she was not his pal - only his tool. Is a complete surrender a sign of love? You say I do not realize how hard it is to prevent passion from powering love. But to win is the greatest victory a man can know.
No. 9 - CARBOLATED PETROLATUM, ONE TUBE. Carbolated Petrolatum is used externally for burns. No. 10 - BORACIC ACID 3 PERCENT SOLUTION, TWO OUNCES, Boracic Acid is dissolved in water. It is useful as an eyewash. Use it freely, with an eye glass, as a bath. No. 11 - CHLORATE OF POTASH. Dissolve one tablet slowly in mouth for sore throat. No. 12 - SODA MING is used in case of indigestion. Again your cheery voice!
Oh, Miss Car, you say I am in love? If you could know how much I am in love - and how much deeper it grows every second! - To hear us laughing, talking, singing this evening and making fun of the sweetest plays, songs, and poetry - one would think that none of us had a care in the world. Harriet, I know that you and I have cares - and Louise, too for she has a husband. You said so many things last evening that I cannot forget. Is mother love the only true love? Does true love know no jealously? To be alone with you in a playground in the clouds! High above the world that makes its life more complicated when it strives to make it easier! One hand holds your heart and physical successes while the other (the right) holds your soul and moral successes. Oh God if it is true that I have saved or made a man - even at 18 my short life has my been worthwhile. I wonder what you are doing tonight!
No. 8 - FIVE-GRAIN BISMUTH SUBNITRATE TABLETS, FIFTY IN A BOTTLE. Four tablets powdered afford a safe remedy in diarrhea. It is better to give a purge first. After a free movement of the bowels, the bismuth should be given and repeated, when necessary, every four hours. The food is always very important in diarrhea. At first, eat nothing, then begin with boiled milk and gradually get back to an ordinary diet. |
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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