P. S. Well Mom, I am very much puzzled for I have just got this
afternoon’s papers and there is another story about the Spokesman and
the Spokeslady and it contradicts every word of the other story because
it says now that the Spokeslady has got Herself three especially
beautiful new Easter hats and far from getting along with only one
sixty-five dollar suit of spring clothes the fact is that the Spokesman
has just bought Himself a dozen suits of spring clothes that cost a
hundred and twenty-five dollars each.
And it is a story that seems to be give out from the big white house
just like all the other stories that Mr. Edgerton has had charge of and
I don’t see what it can mean because it will ruin everything I have
done and what are the plain people going to think when they see one
story one day and then exactly the opposite the next day they will stop
believing anything they read in the papers and how will the Spokesman
be able to instruct them in what they had ought to do?
I am terrible worried about it because what can I think except that
some of them Bolshiviki fellers has got in their dirty work somewheres
undermining American institutions and spoiling the work that I am doing
for the Spokesman? I am on pins and needles waiting for Mr. Edgerton
to call again and hope it will be soon. I am not allowed to call him
because of course it would not do for him to be making dates with
ladie’s voices over the telephone at the big white house where the
Spokesman speaks.
* * * * *
P. S. Again. Well it is another day and I have not heard from Mr.
Edgerton and it is a shame there had surely ought to of been some way
that I could get hold of him in a time of public danger like this. It
seems to me like the Reds is running away with the country and I could
not sleep good all night I dreamed that I seen twelve Spokesmen all
alike riding around on twelve electric camels and each one of Them
had on a hundred and twenty-five dollar suit of clothes. And there is
an editorial in the paper this morning saying that of course it is
necessary for the Spokesman to be clad adequate to His high Station and
of course He would not be stingy to His wife at this joyous Eastertide.
And Floradumbelle says she guesses she will have to have her new hat
after all and she will stick some gentleman friend for her movie
tickets so you can see how the whole country is getting demoralized
again.
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