CCC Vol. 3 p. 35 Jennie Selph Cady

April first has again arrived, but here in Pennsylvania it still seems like winter. However, we have been very comfortable as we returned to primitive ways and have burned wood because the gas did not give the satisfaction it formerly did.

I hope you all have been well the past year. I don't think I have seen any cousins since October, except the ones in Nelson and Osceola. By the way, Alta and I were the only ones who attended both of the Cousins Dinners last year¹. We enjoyed both. We also enjoyed our short visit with the relatives in New Jersey². We visited some of the interesting points in New York [City].

Of the things we saw in New York, the thing that stands our most prominently in my mind is the representation of the Ten Commandments produced by Cecil. B. DeMille. Perhaps you have all seen this, but if you have not and have an opportunity to see it, don't miss it. You will find it well worth while. Our drive through the Delaware Water Gap was another outstanding experience.

I like entertainment. (There is nothing here but the Aid Society). I usually try to attend the Chautauqua which is held each year in some of the nearby towns. I think I appreciated most an English lady who pictured the difference between England and America. Her subject was "You Americans". She came here with "our boys" after the World War. She had been a war nurse. She said she could never forget the cheering as they came in sight of American shores, and she wondered what it would be when they saw the Statue of Liberty. But said she, "Then they were silent".

The lecturer spoke of our train service and, in fact nearly everything as being in advance of England. They have no porches there - no rocking chairs. The first barbershop she saw here she thought was a hospital with the operating room in front. She never heard of "hot dogs" until she came here. Once some friends from here sent her people a watermelon and they boiled it. The English like seclusion. They draw down the shades at night and live behind their hedges. Only the rich and businessmen have cars and telephones, and still we all worship the same God!

1. Almost always, the "Cousins Dinners", which were for the grandchildren of Ann CLINCH Campbell, were held in the vicinity of Nelson. One early exception was one held at Sugar Hill, in Schuyler Co., NY. But in the fall of 1924 the most distant site ever selected, Charlie Congdon's summer home near Stroudsburg, PA. Some of the Cousins were unable or unwilling travel that far, so Laura BOSARD Mourey/Mowrey held one in Farmington Twp.

2. The NJ relatives most likely wisited were Will Selph,Geo. L. Buck and/or his sister, Myra BUCK Seiders.