MRS R S YEGERLEHNER
KENTLAND
INDIANA
1-12-43
Dear Daddy –
Will try this again. The boys have been using V-mail and I used just air mail but since you asked for this, here ‘tis. We are all better today. Mark has to stay in bed but he has only a slight temperature 4 points in the red. I told him if he kept quiet this afternoon he could get up in the morning. John will be glad of that because he has been waiting on him and doing his work and Mark’s too. David is on his bath table but isn’t liking it too well. He usually likes to lie and kick, but I just put him back in his bed and now he is ‘singing.’ The way he moves when he is awake makes me think of perpetual motion. I don’t know how cold it is today but the storm windows on the south upstairs were frosted over. I noticed Zell’s south windows were frosted too. The J.A.M.A. came today. Do you want that renewed? I asked you once or twice before but no answer. Got a letter from Uncle Wes this A.M. He said he sent you some maps and was sending an atlas. Lucile Johnson came home from the hospital today – Jimmy Ed is a week old but they are so crowded over there (Watseka). I stayed just a week longer than she did. I sent Jimmy Ed a gift and wrote her a letter and she answered. Said she thought she had better write letters before she comes home. Catty Wilson is going to stay with them for a while. At one week J.E. has gained 5 oz. and at that rate he will soon be a heavy weight. My right sinus is OK but there is some infection in the left but it keeps draining all the time, so maybe it will soon get cleared up.
Love Mother
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It will be good in upcoming letters to hear more about Jimmy Ed.
Wish I could shed some light on what kind of bath table it was….but I don’t seem to remember. 🙂
“David is on his bath table but isn’t liking it too well. He usually likes to lie and kick, but I just put him back in his bed and now he is ‘singing.’ The way he moves when he is awake makes me think of perpetual motion.”… such a delightful comment. I so love this 🙂
I always cringe when she talks about putting him on the bath table. I have visions of a tall table and him rolling off the side!
Oh… I’m so much older than you and do very well remember “the bath table” here in South Australia in the early 1950’s. It was a foldable wooden frame with canvas/ heavy material slung between the two upper supports (if that makes sense)?…
So, the baby could be safely laid in this kind of “hammock” with nappy/ diaper off to have a real good healthy kick, wriggle and exercise. It also enabled lots of fresh air to get to the bub’s “nether regions” 😉 as part of the daily bathing process.
This is how I imagine the “bath table” Gladys refers to… however, I could be totally wrong.
I imagine that you are correct. It makes more sense now. Thank you!