Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Ardyth, laughing, in a new dress

Today I have seen her only briefly, soaped and laughing; she was working all day upstairs and came down only to take a bath and have dinner. She tried a new dress on that Mother had made for her—except the buttonholes, which she usually  buys at the Singer Sewing Machine Co., out of grass-green striped material with a bustle below the waist. She looked so sweet in it I wanted to be a baby kangaroo resting easy in the ventral pouch of her bustle while she grazed through the house.
     --From her husband Egon's journal, November 23, 1947

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