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Osawatomie April 9, 1889

My dear Sister,

It is a cloudy morning but decidedly warmer than before the rain. We have had breakfast, German? and I, John is eating and Mary has not got up. She sat up last evening to write and hence laziness--to tell the truth she is not at all well. Her head troubled her a great deal yesterday so that she looked very badly and I doubt not felt worse--there she is dressing now. We have a shawl hung on the supports of a shelf John has near the ceiling about the middle. We mean to make a curtain but took the one we had for our little clothespress. I sit one

So we do not know just how to do it. I wonder if she would be willing to write again how. Can you not get along without much house cleaning this spring? Have you noticed the favorable opinions in the papers of stained floors and rugs--in place of carpets? and what is your view? I sent the other day for the Agriculturist for the rest of this year and a copy of the Farm and Household Cyclopedia for