{"id":1182,"date":"2016-11-14T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/the-book-party\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:24:08","slug":"the-book-party","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/the-book-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Book Party” <\/span>
\nA letter from Mary Lawton (“Mrs. Walton”) to Annie Fellows Johnston.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dear “Cousin Annie”<\/p>\n

The “Book Party” at the Query Club, was a grand success, and very interesting.<\/p>\n

My silence regarding it is truthfully due to the fact that I have had no cook, no laundress & upstairs girl, no water, no filler yet. No man to attend to it as his wife and the only one he has is very ill & I can’t “fuss” with him.  An attack of rheumatism, with “nerves” & vile headaches thrown in besides a few other trifles, much I am sure you will consider sufficient without giving the balance of the ninety-nine.<\/p>\n

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I represented the Christmas Vacation, Evelyn Barnett, “Madame Butterfly” in rich costume, so becoming, she really looked beautiful.  Several presented theirs in music, some in dress, others in brief talks.  \"\"<\/a>Altogether it was unique.  And Fanny is giving a book luncheon on Friday to Mrs. Creighton.<\/p>\n

I thought you could use it.  I would make a list of the books represented & how.  I have asked a number of girls, without, of course, giving reasons, what would make them maddest.  What rile them to a cross-eyed degree, and most hurt their “feelins” to the core!  Answers condensed are all the same-the little tattle-tales of the idle & mischievous ~~ of society, who repeat from one to another, get things mixed, do injustice, put people on official terms & certainly “things & feelins” get as “higglety-pigglety” & tragically topsy turvy as one could wish.<\/p>\n

Mary Forrester has been on the ragged edge of just that by her propensity to be funny and play tricks over the telephone. <\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>For instance last summer she asked one of the girls to go to a party with her, representing herself as a boy whom they all knew and who already had an engagement for that party.  Mary found out in time to correct the error & squirm out, but she has had some very narrow escapes.<\/p>\n

I do hope you can get some wee bit from these scrambly letters.  The truth is–my thinker won’t work. I am almost imbecilic.<\/p>\n

Love to each one
\n       Always Devotedly
\n March 7 –               Mary C. Lawton<\/p>\n

(1905-6??)<\/p>\n

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