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[Nov. 13, 1894]

L. S. J. U. Nov- 13-

My dear Mamma:-

It made me laugh to read
your remark about the marmalade.
If you were here you wouldn't
wonder or be surprised that it
goes. Several hungry girls
can easily make way with
a quart of marmalade in a
week or so. We have no
Jam or Jelly or pickles, oh I do
want a bottle of Jim's
delicious crisp pickles.

It distressed me to learn that
you had sent the lamp you use.
I thought it was one you had
Where is your big one?

We need a lamp - because when
we are out late we have to undress
in the dark - But I will bring

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pretty good but not wholesome.

We always have mush for breakfast
& hot breads either biscuit
rolls or coffee cake, & toast. The
meat is as a rule chops or steak
and on Sunday ham & eggs
cooked the way you wish. We have
chocolate Sunday Also.

For lunch we have either baked
or boiled potatoes, huge ones -
milk is always on the table (blue),
cold meat ususally & pie.

For dinner soup mashed potatoes -
lamb, roast-beef or something
else - one vegetable - and
desert, which defies analysis.
On Sunday we have ice cream.

But the way the things are
cooked don't compare with
Jim's delicious wholesome things.
There are six long tables - longer
than ours at home. And