Stories about Doris

Dear Wendy,
What a nice idea to do this blog. It's so good to have the news and pictures, and to hear stories from others. One I remember my mother Bess telling about her older sister Doris is that every spring as they were growing up, the rugs would be taken up and cleaned. Without fail there would be spinach and other vegetables, flattened and all dried up, under the rug! Apparently, according to the custom of the era when there were no vitamin pills, children were forced to eat vegetables whether they liked them or not (not that things have completely changed!). Doris didn't like most of the vegetables, so apparently she was not excused from the table until she ate more and sometimes spent quite sometime by herself at the dinner table. From time to time, after everyone else left and when no one was looking, Doris would get the dog to eat the vegetables, or would slide them under the rug where they would be found the following spring!

Doris was so strong and healthy, that she obviously did not suffer from lack of vegetables! I appreciate her teaching me how to ride and inviting me over to their house when I was young, where there always seemed to be so much going on. In the first Mount house, I remember that after Wendy was born, Doris put a banner- like thing up in the kitchen with these words written on it: "Our House is Full of Boys and Noise- Now We Have One Pearl, a Girl!" Wendy, you have been a pearl of a girl in all the good care you have given Doris. We send you our love, Demie