Thea's seventh birthday

Brilliant sunshine on snow today. I can't imagine it'll last too long, but there's an awful lot of it.

Here's a gem I've been meaning to post here. It's written in the back of Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple, probably by grandma. I'm leaving out the superfluous apostrophe's [sic] so I don't have to keep writing [sic]! Years ago I typed this up and mailed it to Thea.

Jan 26th 1915
Oakland, Cal.

Thea's birthday party.

At three thirty in the afternoon, ten little girls came to celebrate her seventh birthday. The decorations were all in red, and green, seven cupids hung from the chandeliers, with huckleberries in the hanging baskets, and ferns and carnations for the table, being near valentine's day hearts, and place cards and crepe table cloth, doilies, plates all matched. Favors were japanese wonder nuts, chocolate with mottoes on, of sugar, spoons, knives, raisins, Thea's was "If you love me as I love you no knife can cut our love into [surely this was "in two"]. Sister Nelda's was "as sure as the grass grows around the stump, U.R. my darling sugar lump." They had a peanut hunt, and Helen Kastens found the most and won the first prize, a book. Claire Williams the booby prize, a toy. They sang and danced, spoke pieces. Formed a March, gave each a bonbon, marched to the refreshment room in order, as follows: Thea Soares, Helen Kastens, Gene Andre, Carrol Toutau, Nelda Soares, Paula Delucki, Fern Covalt, Helen Covalt, Claire Williams, Louise Gould, Virginia Lee, Elinor Davis. Mama was assisted by Helen Foote, Mildred Fenwick, Grandma Niesen, Glenn Soares. Thea received a few gifts from the little friends, a bottle cologne, five kerchiefs, ribbon, two books, doll's fur set, fan, postcards from God Father Pete Engel, Great Gran Ma Knorsa, Howard Gates. Doll's coat from Aunt Donie. Two bath towels, pink-blue, a crochet bath rag made by Grandma Niesen.

For refreshments, cakes, candies, ice cream, birthday cake, with seven red candles on it, and stood in front of her (Thea) and at the other end, were seven candles in candelabras.

Was a rainy day.

Glenn's birthday will be two days later, so he imagined it was his birthday, was very indignant because he could not sit at the table, but he will be the guest of honor at his dinner party, just three years of age then.