West Allis, Wis.
Dearest Folks:
Received Marie’s letter this morning. There wasn’t anything she wrote in the letter before to make us angry. I wrote that same afternoon but didn’t get to mail it early enough.
I looked at a blanket this morning — it’s full size. They didn’t have a 3/4 size at all. Tomorrow the Boston Store is having a big sale, and I’m going to see what they have. I can bring the blanket with me or else send it with the next laundry. Maybe, if Aunt Tena really wants to have a shower, we ought to wait and see. I may have quite a few blankets. You’ve made 6 pining blankets, after wrapping it in one of those it gets wrapped in a blanket like you can make from a large one, and then put in bed and covered with quilts and these colored blankets? Is that the way it works?
We want to get it used to sleeping in a cold room — the books I’ve read tell you to have a window open — so if the front room is shut off we can let it sleep in there part time. I don’t want it to get cold though. There’s a way of fastening the blankets with robe fasteners so the baby stays warm. It was in the paper.
I think I’ll be coming up about the middle of February. I can be there a week or so before. Wallie says he is going to bring me up. I could come alone but he doesn’t want me to. And I would like to have you speak to Dr. Reist. Wallie also wants me to send a bottle of my urine up, so I am in the laundry. I hope it doesn’t break — that would be terrible.
No, I haven’t a baptism dress yet. They usually wait several months before baptizing a baby I thought. A tiny baby doesn’t wear a silk dress I suppose. That reminds me, I have some white silk from a slip that could possibly be used for a baby’s slip (or something else). I’ll send it in the laundry — it needs washing anyway. The flowered housedress I’m sending can stay there — it’s terribly short on me. Most of my other ones are longer.
I’ve been embroidering a good deal lately, will send up what I have finished. A border in all blue will be alright I think — the two colors would make so much extra work. I had an awful time getting the right kind of floss. I thought I had some that was silky and when I worked it up it didn’t look silky at all. (Look at the ship and sheep.) Then I bought some different floss which works up much prettier. The quilt will last a long time so I wanted to make it look as pretty as I could. If you think I ought to take out the two blocks I worked with the cotton floss, send them back and I will. Maybe they won’t show so badly but see what you think. That quilt will be so cute when it’s done.
Noticed the clipping — it must have been real pretty. She had the same wedding gift I had — the pendant with a real crystal & diamond setting. I surely like mine. I’m sending two clippings from the Journal. Do you know those Otto’s? And I believe the other clipping is about one of Margaret & Arden’s friends, LaCroix. She looks like a chinaman to me — wore a straight bob and real dark. I’m saving all “The Green Sheets” to bring with me because there’s a good story I want to read to you called “The Ape.” Wallie can send them up after I’m there.
“The Ape” - "Larry Lawrence has written a new Green Sheet serial about a Three Rivers girl in Milwaukee..."
We received a letter from Florence Wescott yesterday. She is sending us a package she wrote, the reason she didn’t send it before is because she didn’t [know] whether she had our correct address. I’ll have to write her I suppose. Her folks are living wit hthem, and they are buying a home of their own, paying it like rent. Wescott’s must have sold the house they bought on the East side.
It’s so nice out today. I went shopping this morning & this afternoon will mail this letter and buy some fish. Wallie likes fried fish, and they’re supposed to be good for me. We certainly eat plenty potatoes, a pack lasts us hardly a week. And imagine this: I like to eat starch. I get so hungry for it at times I just have to eat some. Just a little satisfies my craving. Argo starch doesn’t taste good. I’m enclosing a small order Dad can send with the laundry. Send the kind of starch that tastes best. I don’t think it will hurt me, do you? I never used to like it.
I hope Dr. Reist will keep it out of the paper. “Eight months” babies never live, do they? But “seven months” do, I’ve heard. Whatever it is, we’ll be satisfied — other people don’t count anyway. Maybe you could say to the girls sometime if the chance ever comes, “Mabel & Wallie didn’t have any trouble keeping it out of the paper when they went to Waukegan.” We did go down there a year ago the 15th of September with that idea in mind, but I knew you didn’t approve of Waukegan marriages and always made Wallie promise we’d have a nice wedding at Wausau later. We went to Zion, Ill. & North Chicago too that Sunday. I think we told you about it. Gussie can ask Mrs. Hanke if she knew that too (since) she’s so wise & said she knew we were going to be married last summer. I’m glad we did have a wedding — it’s always nice to think of later on even if it means more work.
Schrader-Polzin Wedding - Walter & Mabel (Schrader) Polzin - August 16, 1930 - St. Paul's Evangelical Church - Wausau, WIWell, this is almost all I know of for this time. I’ll be seeing you in about a month but then I’ll have to write to Wallie everyday. We’ll have a chance to write love letters to each other again. He says he’ll be so lonesome, but he won’t starve because he knows how to help himself. He’s gaining weight – 187 1/2 lbs. He used to be 182 at the most, so I must feed him enough.
Write again soon and I will too. We’ll send the sheet music, also some book reports you might be able to use.
Lovingly,
Mabel & Wallie
With a Carload of Love... 