January 1, 1943 The New Year, The City People, The Eggs, The Cheese and The Rogue's Gallery

Dear Mother & Daddy,

"Here it is the first day of a new year and I have really celebrated.  I did a two weeks washing this morning and had just hung out the sheets when it started snowing.  I hung everything out anyway and most of it is still there.  This afternoon I cleaned the apartment and waxed the kitchen floor, so I won't have much to do the rest of the weekend.

New Year's day here seems almost as important as Christmas.  Everything is closed today and tomorrow.  We went to a show last night and there was an awful mob down town.  As we came out of the show people were just jammed into the front of the theater waiting to get into the next show. Everybody had horns and whistles just like you read about. Now we've seen how city people celebrate New Year's Eve.

We're glad you liked the presents.  We had a hard time buying things that wouldn't weigh too much or break.  The lace on the hankie was fancier than the pattern looked but I knew you would appreciate my work.  I forgot I had it until I had all the packages wrapped so I had to put it in an envelope and stick it on top.  The pictures were only proofs and I colored them up a bit.  They were taken so the main office could have my picture in what they call the Rogue's Gallery.  They have the pictures of all the girls that work for them, in the personnel director's office.  B's mom liked her picture too.

She was certainly pleased about you sending her the eggs.  She said they were the nicest white eggs she had ever seen.  We buy eggs all of the time but don't use a lot of them.  The last we got were .47.  Most of them are cold storage eggs and I don't like to eat them so we use most of them to cook with.  I wish we could trade some of our sugar for some of your sugar cured meat.

Who wanted to buy the place?  I don't think $4000. was enough, either and unless you get a big big price for it don't sell it till I can see it once more and be at home again.

I knew Daddy and Nobel would like the cheese and I hope Daddy didn't get the stomach ache.  It is Baby Gouda cheese (pronounced goo da) and was .29 for the piece.  It's about .41 a pound.  The larger ones are called Edam, but it's the same cheese and they weigh about 1-1/2 lbs.  You can probably get one or the other.

I forgot to tell you I had a new dress to wear Christmas.  It's blue wool jersey.  Rather plain, but pretty.  I'm going to get a blue hat to go with it, I think.

Write soon.  We're always looking for a letter."

                                        Lots & Lots of love,
                                        
                                                   B & Bonnie