{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College
Waterloo, Ontario}
Oct. 1, 1922.
Dear Mother:-
For once I am home again on Sunday, though not for the whole day as I am to preach in Elmira to-night. I will not have to leave here, however, till after supper as I am having a man to drive me up in a car, and as we have concrete road practically all the way now it will be a matter of only about ½ hour. I am taking Bonnie along with me to-night and we will probably be back by nine o’clock. This will be my only Sunday at home this month. I am booked for Hamilton next Sunday and for Brantford the following Sunday; and the last Sunday I expect to be in Buffalo unless I should decide to come back to Hamilton to preach.
We are having beautiful weather now, more like August than October. We had a very heavy frost the first part of last week, but ever since then it has been warm and summery and we have needed no fire even at night. It is a good thing too as it will give time for coal to come in. I don’t think any has been received in town as yet, but I understand it is on the move and is liable to land here any day. I don’t know what the price of it will be but it is likely to be higher than it was last year when it was $15.50. I got myself a pair of double lensed glasses last week, regular spectacles. I tried the nose-pincers with the large glasses and couldn’t keep them on. So I decided to get a pair that would stay on and that I could wear all of the time. They don’t look as well, it is true, but they are far more comfortable and satisfactory. I had to pay a good price for them though $16.50. Enclosed I am sending you a couple
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snap-shots, of the children which Carolus took. He has taken a number of others, but these are all that he has developed to date.
The school is running along fine with a new student coming in every once in awhile. We have now 10 students in the Seminary and some 60 odd in the College. We have also secured a new teacher for the Classic Department in the person of a Mr. McClennan who took his M.A. at Toronto University last year. He is expected to arrive Tuesday or Wednesday. Prof. Zinck will then be released largely for Seminary work, though he may still have to continue the higher mathematics in the College. He will take over some of my work, which will make it a little easier for me.
Last Thursday our boys played the Galt Collegiate in Rugby. They put up a good fight but lost on kicking and running by a score of 31 to 0. Our new professor, I understand, is a well nigh professional Rugby player and will no doubt bring our team up to the proper notch of efficiency.
Bonnie had a letter from Meda the other day. She is now in New York taking Violin lessons from Franz Kreisel, as near as we could make out the name, at $150 for [?] (10) lessons, payable in advance. She may get that much good out of it, but I am doubtful. She plans on starting up a school of her own when she returns to St. John next spring. Muriel, Don’s wife, was examined at the health clinic in New Germany sometime ago and pronounced as having incipient tuberculosis and was planning when she wrote to enter the “San” at Kentville where Lynton is and is probably there by this time. I don’t really think there is much the matter with her, but the Masons fairly dote on sickness and have an idea that it is aristocratic to be an invalid and be waited upon.
Bonnie has about finished her canning and has more fruit put down than ever before, though I don’t know how many jars. We ate the last of our canteloupes yesterday. Had a very successful crop this year. I set out last week about 700 winter onions which will come on early next spring. Well, I must close. With love to you all, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed]
Carroll H. Little.
