Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

over for I don’t know)’ anyway they gave me the information that they were going the skating-rink. That didn’t interest me, as I can’t skate, and after I had invited them over for the evening, they went away. The rest of the afternoon I spent in reading.
        After supper Joe called up the Richies – why I nearly forgot about a party we are going to give Friday night to the Richies; we have been planning it for weeks. – well Joe called up and asked Merle and Edna to get the Marburger Girls and come in, that we would write a play for Friday night and practice it. They were in for it right away. But after the fellows had come over, Edna called up and said that the Marburger girls couldn’t come in so that it wasn’t any use for them to come in; Joe then made a date for to-morrow night and told them not to have the Marburger girls down, but that we would bring June out instead.
        After this maneuvering we assembled in the living room, where Joe and Louise sat on the couch and industriously wrote out an original synopsis of a play, which they called “The Newlywed’s Christmas Party” and we just as industrious-