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Lusambo Aug. 16, 1925
Sunday-
Dearest homefolks:
B. M. and Miss Fontaine have gone to visit some stations across the river and I am staying at home to take care of the baby. I never like to take him out in the middle of the day, anyway. I can't take him to church yet. He is too much of a live wire. I took him to tea down at the "State" day before yesterday and did nothing the whole time but run after him
to keep him out of mischief. He is walking now and in a short while can go anywhere he wants to. The fartherest he has walked so far is about six feet at one time. Of course, we are proud of him and he gets lots of attention. He stands up, opens the screen door, goes out and is still standing up. Miss Fontaine thinks he has learned to do this unusually young.
So far he is ahead of all the other babies of his age out here. I don't know how it will be about talking for he shows no signs so far. I am so sorry you can't see him now for he is at the cutest age, I think.
Max is outgrowing his white dresses fast and I am going to have to get to work right away making him some rompers. I have been making me a dress out of the pink gown Miss Cassie gave me and it is going to be a beauty, I think. The sleeves are a mess so far but Miss Fontaine is helping me and I think they will come out all right in the end. I put a
drawstring around the waist and think I will have a crushed girdle. The pieces that went over the shoulders I am using as cuffs and the yoke I cut off above the eyelets where the ribbon was run and made a ruffle around the neck using the top hemstitching to bind off the neck. I am more undecided than ever how to make my voile dress, but I must make it before Mission Meeting, as it has been decided for us to go on if there is any way to get our stuff there. I took the loose panels off the red dotted dress you had made for me in Livingston and it looks nice now. The .85 dress I got in Dallas with all that embroidery to do on it I did on the boat leaving off most of the embroidery which was too coarse and too much and now it is one of the nicest looking dresses for everyday I have. It does not fade and fits nicely. If you have not already had the voile dresses made, please wait for a while as I think I have plenty to do for a while. There won't be anyone coming to bring them soon. The McKees are the next ones coming, I believe. Sometime after Xmas. I would rather you would wait until next spring styles come out. I imagine Mrs. Tucker would be the best one to make them;. I am very well pleased with the dresses she made me, only I had much rather you would pick out the pattern and material. Perhaps one light voile and one light colored silk, whether georgette or crepe de Chine might do, whatever they are using. Be sure if you get pink or blue to have a slip of some kind to go under it. I think sateen would
do. I believe the mail would be safe enough as there seems to be no trouble that way. Don't send the pongee dress now and perhaps I will need the pongee dress more when I come home.
I get plenty of Xword puzzles to work from a daily paper of a M.E.C.M. missionary on furlough that they said we might have as it came through and I enjoy them; very much.
A committee is to meet here the first of Sept. to decide what is to be done with Lusambo station and we are expecting two nurses for M.E.C.M. up from Kinshasa in a day or two so I imagine our quiet days are over. Four people from a mission three hours down river from us are to make us a visit tomorrow--together with doing some shopping at Lusambo.
Later. August 20. Our letter from Lusambo by cape (?) leaves here on Friday and I am trying to get you a letter off every Fri. So I will add a few more lines and send this oft. The baby walks pretty good now for a beginner and often walks the whole length of a room alone. My! but I'm proud of him. He weighs 21 lb. and looks real pretty to me with his hair in ringlets and his cheeks so rosy. I guess he is not what one would call a pretty child, though. He wins everyone though with his sweet smile even though he does hide his face in his mother's dress once in a while for he has gotten to the bashful stage. I dread putting him in rompers for he looks so sweet in his white dresses of which he generally has three or four a day. your card saying the map came reached us today, also the leather bound book from
August Miller. I can't make out whether it means he is a graduate or not. I can't understand though why I didn't get a letter. How often do you write?
I must close now. With lots of love to all.
Dorothy
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