Wednesday, February 20, 1929

Chippewa Falls, Wis.

2/20/29 ~ Wednesday Eve.

 

My dearest, lovely Mabel:

After receiving the loveliest of all letters from the loveliest little sweetheart in all the world you most certainly cannot blame me in the least for answering it immediately. Now I’ll always think of you as my darling Sweetheart, because you have given me the right [to] do so. I am so glad, so happy, my darling, Mabel that I think I’ll have a hard time telling you just how happy I really am – Words seem so scarce to me right now you know how it is when you receive a great big surprise. That’s how it has fallen upon me. If you were here I’d give you a great big kiss & hug the daylights out of you. Yes my dearest Sweetheart I’d love you to call me your Sweetheart it would thrill me to the bottom of my big toe. I just knew last night already that I would get such wonderful news from you – I saw it all in my dream – I dreamed I got a letter from you and you & I were so happy.

Now my dearest we can love each other in the way we wanted to. I love you with all my heart & soul – I really told you the whole truth in my letter I wrote you from Oshkosh – that typewritten one I mean. My darling I’ve been thinking of you all the time since Saturday morning I just simply could not think of anything else but of you. If you have the song entitled “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” I’ll play it for you. I hope you have it. I’ve got it home but the sad part of it is I can’t play it from memory. I don’t play very much from memory.

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God was good to us my dearest that He planned everything our way. I shall thank Him forever for that. And your prayer has been answered too. I’m fairly well over my cold. I certainly did feel very bad. I tried everything to cure it myself but it did not yield to my “nursing” so Sunday morning I called a Doctor. He gave me some pills or medicine & I had to put mustard plasters on my chest did those plasters may be burn & bite but they are very good.

Are you over your cold, dearest? I hope so. Now I know how to cure colds and if you are still suffering from your cold, let me be your doctor?

How is your Mother feeling now? I do hope that she too is getting better. You should keep your mother very many years yet my dearest. My Mother is dead eleven years – it will be eleven on the 28th of this month. My mother loved me & I loved her deeply I did everything to help her & ease her pains. That’s why my dearest, God is always kind to me. My mother & I were two great pals & she taught me so many things she was always so proud of me I still remember the night of my graduation from grammar school. I’ll love & respect you likewise my dearest. May God help me always to that end.

My darling Mabel if nothing happens I’ll be at Wausau to share some more happy hours with you on Saturday & Sunday and if it don’t snow that the roads are impassable I’ll come on the bus Saturday afternoon and be at the bus station at 7:30 P.M. I’ll be so glad to see you I just simply can’t wait. I’m sure you’ll be there to welcome me won’t you, dear heart?

I’m so glad you find my letters interesting and yes by God my darling I mean everything I tell you in them they ring from the heart. I just simply read & re-read your letters over & over that I just about wear the ink off them reading them so much I’m just sitting on edge to receive the one you said you’d write me on the 19th. I hope it’ll be waiting for me in the morning.

When we are together Saturday & Sunday we can talk some more.

Do you know a secret? Course you don’t but I do & I’ll share it with you. I have your picture on my dresser this morning the sun shone into my room and it shone right on your smiling beautiful face and from the two – the sun & your smile, your smile was the warmest & brightest. I always say “Goodmorning” to you my dearest, right as soon as I see your face and I’ve got the little picture pasted in the inside of my watch – in the inside of the crystal and whenever I look at my watch I look at it with a smile because you are there “smiling through” at me.

Was it ever cold this morning! It was 30 below zero but I’m sure it was colder at Wausau – Wausau is the coldest spot in the state, but I’ve found the “warmest spot in the coldest spot in the state” – in your heart! Will you always keep me there?

It warmed up considerably during the day and it feels like some more snow is coming. If it snows my dearest I’ll come to see you on the train I’ll be there Sunday – wait a minute I’ll look at a C.N.W. time table. I can take two trains – one leaves Eau Claire at 9:45 P.M. & get me in at Wausau at 2:10 A.M. – this one would save me the hotel bill. But I do hope the weather stays “put” so it don’t snow then I’ll come Saturday afternoon on the bus – hold your thumbs my dear heart, will you?

We might finish up here some time next week then I think I’ll go to Oshkosh for a few weeks. That will make it very nice because I’ll have better have to come to see you. If you don’t mind dearest, I’ll come every weekend when at “Oshkosh B’Gosh.” I don’t mind distance I’ll come to see you many many times after I’m through with the season’s work. And then as you said my darling you want to come to Milwaukee to work I hope your plans work out. Even if they don’t – then my “Spirit of Toledo” will be kept humming. I love you and I want to be near you always. I wish I could get a job at – Wausau. Ask the mayor if he needs another accountant or even janitor or maybe your dad can use a “flunky” at his store.

I’ll tell you something funny which almost happened. On Saturday night I felt so bad that I simply could not sleep. And along about midnight a “bunch” of fellows gathered up at the Elk’s Club, which is located on the 5th floor of the Hotel Northern. I’m on the 4th floor. These fellows started singing – they were all “lit up” and they sang til 2:30 in the morning another reason I couldn’t sleep I was on the verge of telling the hotel clerk to stop them but somebody must have beat me to it or they quieted down – these fellows were some of the distinguished citizens of the “berg” among them was the “Honorable Mayor” which I found out Sunday morning from Mr. Mollerus. With him was the sales manager of one of the shoe companies we are to work at. Pretty important I could have considered myself if it was through my “squaking” that they were told to “clear up.”

I told you about all I can think of right now & I’ll see you with bells on, my dear sweetheart, on Saturday or Sunday.

Your Wallie xxxxxxx

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