{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College
Waterloo Ontario}
Jan’y 29, 1922
Dear Mother:-
No doubt you received yesterday or to-day Carolus’s letter with the snaps which he enclosed. Since he has begun writing to you you will perhaps receive quite as much news from this part of the country as you desire – a sufficiency is not a superfluity of Nachrichten. I did not see or hear his letter, but you will no doubt observe that he is quite a fine letter writer. He writes a splendid business hand and expresses himself well and has quite a vigorous imagination. In the school he stands first in his room in composition work. He wrote a composition last week at a test which his teacher pronounced perfect with the exception of one misspelled word, for which one point was taken off. He took a few more pictures to-day, but don’t know whether he intends to send you any of them or not. We had an ideal day, as far as weather conditions go, to-day. It was bright sunshiny, calm and mild and I had almost the whole family out on the ice on the Seminary rink for a couple hours this afternoon. Even Eileen was there, though she didn’t have any skates, of course. She, however, entertained the College and Seminary boys with vocal selections both in German and English and sang like a bird. She sang the Gloria Patri in German, also “Tausend, Tausend mal sei dir” and had the tune of both perfect although she sang alone. She just picked them up from hearing Arthur and Robert sing them. The children all came back from Sunday School with “brick cards” on which to sell bricks for the new parish hall St. John’s
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proposes to put up this spring. They entered upon this canvass energetically and by supper time all had sold some bricks, Marion leading with 68₵ at a cent a brick. Herman was very much disappointed at not being promoted at the beginning of the year. It seems that they don’t have much of a system in the matter and that it depends somewhat on age, and as his birth-day doesn’t come till February he was kept in his old class. I will have to look into the matter as he has been now four years in Bible Story and it is time for him to be going further. He is a bright boy and is a good deal better than some who have been advanced two or three times in that period. It would be entirely discouraging for him to go over the same ground five years in succession. In the public school he stands nearly at the top in his room, 2nd or third, and there is no reason why he should be kept back forever in the Sunday School. Last Thursday night the Seminary and College boys had a great time. They gave a skating party on their rink behind the Seminary. The Waterloo Band furnished music, Waterloo and Kitchener [?] girls and there were about one hundred in the party. The Profs and their wives were invited. Bonnie didn’t go, but I went and enjoyed the skating very much. After the skating a programme was rendered and eats were furnished. I was one of the unfortunate one who were called on to make speeches. It was well on toward midnight when the affair finally wound up. I was shocked on Thursday to receive a note from Mrs. W. C. Murray announcing the sudden death on Sunday night previously of her husband, our good friend Pastor Murray. I wrote her a letter of condolence Friday. I noticed also in last week’s Lutheran the death of another old friend the Rev. D. A. Sax. I had lost sight of him and did not know where he was till I saw the account of his death at Brookland, S.C. It seems that death
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has been making great inroads into the ranks of the ministry lately, three whom I knew quite intimately having died during this month of January. I am training my boys to look forward to the ministry and hope, if I live long enough, to see three or four of them in this work, the noblest of all callings and the one in which there is the greatest need of candidates. Bonnie and the big boys are down at Church to-night. The rest are all in bed, though the baby is beginning to wake up and let her voice be heard. She is a little constipated and doesn’t feel real well, but in general the health of the family is very good. I still have about 15 of my Christmas cigars left and a gallon or so of my cider. Well, I must close. With all good wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed]
Carroll H. Little.
