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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938

1927-09-26 Page 50

-50- Finish friends: as they wanted her picture, and that of the plain dress and bonnet and shawl. She gathered mosses and a few stones as she went along; and brot them home with her. On their return to Helsingfors she was given the glad surprise of being presented with a large beautiful chiming wall clock; worth twenty-five dollars or more: which her friends had gone together to get for her. And on a silver plate fastened on the lower part of the clock were engraven the words: "Math. 14:27. Math. 15:23. Ps. 126 Ida Roiseland Chamness presented from her thankful friends in Finland 26: 9: 1927." Mamma was delighted with the present and thanked her kind friends heartily. Edith (the girl who called mamma Aunty) had come to Helsingfors to see her off; and she and the other friends, after bidding mamma a warm farewell, stood on the pier waving at her while the tears were rolling

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-50- Finish friends: as they wanted her picture, and that of the plain dress and bonnet and shawl. She gathered mosses and a few stones as she went along; and brot them home with her. On their return to Helsingfors she was given the glad surprise of being presented with a large beautiful chiming wall clock; worth twenty-five dollars or more: which her friends had gone together to get for her. And on a silver plate fastened on the lower part of the clock were engraven the words: "Math. 14:27. Math. 15:23. Ps. 126 Ida Roiseland Chamness presented from her thankful friends in Finland 26: 9: 1927." Mamma was delighted with the present and thanked her kind friends heartily. Edith (the girl who called mamma Aunty) had come to Helsingfors to see her off; and she and the other friends, after bidding mamma a warm farewell, stood on the pier waving at her while the tears were rolling