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Los Angeles
May 6, 1922
Dearest girl:
I have not had time to write to you before now, I am taking time. Have not ever washed my breakfast dishes but am not going to practice with Jack this morning. He is going for his lesson now.
Last Saturnday Mary came to town and Ruth and I met her at Hamburger's. We bummed around all p.m. and Mary decided to come out home with us to stay over night. We phoned Lynn to come in, which he did. Just as we were starting dinner Minnie and Lucien Turbiville drove up, so we had a house full. I went over and slept with Leona and Mrs. Smith loaned me some bedding.
Minnie had a lump in her breast which had been pronounced cancer by two San Diego doctors. She decided to come up here and find out what Ruth had done. Monday monring we took her to Dr. Duncan, cancer specialist, who said decidedly that it was a cancer. He said Ruth's was not. Four doctors examined Minnie and they all said she must begin treatment immediately; so Lucien went home and left her here. She stayed in the hospital and took one x-ray treatment a day until she had taken five. We wait for her yesterday and took her to the depot. Mrs. Moseley accompanied her to San Diego for a ten day visit.
Minnie is to come back in six weeks for an examination. She may have to take more treatments. Dr. Duncan said the lump should disappear. He told me that she had taken it in time and she would be cured. He said 85% were cured by x-ray and 50% by the knife. He has treated 5,000 cases of cancer. He said Ruth did not have a cancer but that the x-ray...
Thursday I went to the chapter meeting and I was too tired that night to write letters or read. This brings me up to Saturday, today.
Ruth is getting ready to go down town to get Dorothy and Miriam some shoes. I have not gotten the stockings etc. yet that you asked me to get - but will do so next week. Dorothy will be ten tomorrow.
Papa is much better altho' he still coughs. Mr. Harrison has a bad cough from flu. He has leased a lot at Palm Springs* and Mr. Wagner is going to build a house on it for him. He is going to spread part of every winter out there until he overcomes the tendancy to take cold.
Julia Wagner Carter is so much improved that her mother is bringing her home. They will be home next Thursday and I suppose that they will be taking her to the desert next winter.
Must close and get busy.
Did I tell you that Paul's tenants had given up the house and he has not been able to rent it again. He now has both places on his hands.
Sorry I have not been able to send Paul's birthday dollar. Will send it when I can. Heaps of love to you all. Mama
Los Angeles
May 6, 1922
Dearest girl:
I have not had time to write to you before now, I am taking time. Have not ever washed my breakfast dishes but am not going to practice with Jack this morning. He is going for his lesson now.
Last Saturnday Mary came to town and Ruth and I met her at Hamburger's. We bummed around all p.m. and Mary decided to come out home with us to stay over night. We phoned Lynn to come in, which he did. Just as we were starting dinner Minnie and Lucien Turbiville drove up, so we had a house full. I went over and slept with Leona and Mrs. Smith loaned me some bedding.
Minnie had a lump in her breast which had been pronounced cancer by two San Diego doctors. She decided to come up here and find out what Ruth had done. Monday monring we took her to Dr. Duncan, cancer specialist, who said decidedly that it was a cancer. He said Ruth's was not. Four doctors examined Minnie and they all said she must begin treatment immediately; so Lucien went home and left her here. She stayed in the hospital and took one x-ray treatment a day until she had taken five. We wait for her yesterday and took her to the depot. Mrs. Moseley accompanied her to San Diego for a ten day visit.
Minnie is to come back in six weeks for an examination. She may have to take more treatments. Dr. Duncan said the lump should disappear. He told me that she had taken it in time and she would be cured. He said 85% were cured by x-ray and 50% by the knife. He has treated 5,000 cases of cancer. He said Ruth did not have a cancer but that the x-ray...
Thursday I went to the chapter meeting and I was too tired that night to write letters or read. This brings me up to Saturday, today.
Ruth is getting ready to go down town to get Dorothy and Miriam some shoes. I have not gotten the stockings etc. yet that you asked me to get - but will do so next week. Dorothy will be ten tomorrow.
Papa is much better altho' he still coughs. Mr. Harrison has a bad cough from flu. He has leased a lot at Palm Springs* and Mr. Wagner is going to build a house on it for him. He is going to spread part of every winter out there until he overcomes the tendancy to take cold.
Julia Wagner Carter is so much improved that her mother is bringing her home. They will be home next Thursday and I suppose that they will be taking her to the desert next winter.
Must close and get busy.
Did I tell you that Paul's tenants had given up the house and he has not been able to rent it again. He now has both places on his hands.
Sorry I have not been able to send Paul's birthday dollar. Will send it when I can. Heaps of love to you all. Mama
2 comments:
Palm Springs had a reputation as a health spot since 1909 per the city's website:
In 1884, Judge John Guthrie McCallum of San Francisco and his family became the first non-Indians to settle here. McCallum, with the assistance of local Indians, built a 19 mile stone-lined ditch from the Whitewater River into Palm Springs bringing in pure, precious water for irrigation.
Throughout the 19th century, various explorers, colonizers, and soldiers came through the desert, but it was not until 1853 that the United States Topographical Engineers mentioned the oasis of palm trees and springs which they called "Palm Springs." The name did not stick at that time, however. After California became a state in 1850, various stage routes crossed the desert, and "Big Bill Bradshaw's" freight line began to stop at what Bradshaw called "Agua Caliente." The place was known by that name or variations of "Palm Valley" until 1890 when Harry McCallum referred in a letter to his post office address in "Palm Springs."
Dr. Wellwood Murray, of nearby Banning, opened Palm Springs' first hotel, called the Palm Springs Hotel, which was conveniently located directly across the road from the Indian bathhouse where his guests could take advantage of its warm, curative waters.
In 1909, Dr. Harry and Nellie Coffman started their sanitorium, The Desert Inn, which was originally a place for those afflicted with tuberculosis. The Inn later became a world-renowned resort hotel catering to the very wealthy, which included captains of industry and well-known millionaires such as the Vanderbilt and Hearst families.
Sallie's friend with the bad health in the 20s might also have been attracted to Palm Springs by the growing popularity it was enjoying with movie stars of the era. By the 20s it had become a Hollywood resort as well as a health retreat.
pictured Dorothy, Miriam and Jack Pryor?
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