144. Continuing Ruth's life story, girls growing up, Miles Sisters Trio
Mavis is born: During this winter Pratt’s service connected disability check was increased from $12 to $35 a month. We wanted more family and we decided we’d rather live on that amount than put off having another child. So by the time school was out Mavis was on her way. How thankful we’ve always been we did not procrastinate for we may have been eternally deprived of the wonderful blessing she has been to us. During that winter Pratt was able to take care of the babies part time. At other times we had a 16 year old girl. I guess she did okay for her age, but my what a contrast from Grandma Aldridge. By mid summer the doctor told me I was going to have twins. (They didn’t X Ray then much.) So I prepared and was happy with the thought of twins. I even went up to Emily Foremaster’s to spend a few hours to see how she managed with her twins plus the 2 older ones. We were expecting “our twins” about December 10th. But December 1, 1939, Mavis put in her app