I could probably get
permission from Miss Spencer to come and visit you over Saturday
and Sunday if you are stopping at one of the five hotels on her
"permitted" list.
However, if you do decide to come here, perhaps it would be
better to leave father in New York because I know he wouldn't
like it at all with nothing but women and girls around and I am
sure that he couldn't get his glass of hot water in the morning
before breakfast and he would have a much better time in New
York. But if he does come please mother don't let him wear that
old gray hat or that brown suit, and mother couldn't you get him
to get some gloves and a cane in New York before he comes? And
please, mother dear, make him put those "stogies" of his in an
inside pocket and would you mind, mother, not wearing that brooch
father's employees gave you last Christmas?
I shall be awfully glad to see you both but as I say it would be
better if you let me come to New York where you and father will
be ever so much more comfortable.
Your loving daughter,
JEANNETTE.
LETTERS FROM PARENTS
THE same familiarity may be observed by parents when
corresponding with their children, with, of course, the addition
of a certain amount of dignity commensurate with the fact that
they are, as it were, in loco parentis. The following example
will no doubt be of aid to parents in correctly corresponding
with their children:
A Correct Letter from a Mother to Her Son Congratulating Him on
His Election to the Presidency of the United States
DEAR FREDERICK:
I am very glad that you have been elected President of the United
States, Frederick, and I hope that now you will have sense enough
to see Dr.
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