Gloria Mau letter to Douglas Wildfang, 1944

Dear Doug, I promised you a letter about our trip to Milwaukee on the Clipper, so here it is. I hope you don't mind my typing it. It's likely to be quite long, and I can get more on a page this way. Well, we started out to take the 7:50 train to Chicago, so I had to get up a little earlier than I usually do. On the other hand Irene * got to sleep a little longer. I think I've told you that we have a dog. He is a German Shepard, and since we do not have a basement we hate to leave him in the house i • so long alone. This is for two reasons. One, because it really isn't very nice for him to stay cooped up alone so long, and two, because on previous occasions when we left him alone for a long time he tore most of the living room curtains. All this is a build up to tell you why we were taking him to the dog hospital to stay while we were gone. My father had arranged for a taxi to pick us up and take us there. We rode over to the hospital and found that they were so crowded that they couldn't take him. Maybe you can imagine how we felt. There we were with all the Clipper tickets and just about time to meet Irene at the station to get the train. We tried another place where they board dogs but no one was there. All this time the meter on the cab was ticking away. We had practically a Cooks tour of Des Plaines, but we weren't enjoying it. We decided that Mother and I would get out of the cab at the station and meet Irene. We would take the train and my Father would take the dog home, and then take a later train. The boat didn't leave until 9=30 am so he could make it. By the time we met Irene I felt as if I was at the end of a long hard day rather