The old postcard is postmarked September 22, 1913. On the front is a picture of a boarding school for girls. The message reads, “Dearest, I got your letter this morning and sure did enjoy it. Will answer it real soon. Please be good and next Wednesday send me a package of chocolate cakes. If you send it then, I will get them by Friday. Am very happy up here. Love to all from the ‘noise of the family’.”
No matter the amount of planning and preparations we make for children, the child will ad lib all the way. It is always interesting how much children of yesterday and today are alike.
a new day . . .
the mockingbird’s
old song
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Dan Hardison
Note: The Columbia Female Institute was an Episcopal finishing school for girls established in 1835. It was forced to close in 1934, a casualty of the Great Depression. The school was located in Columbia, Tennessee.
Cattails
April 2023
