duly 7, 1945

Mr. & Mrs. ‘Ute Milton P. Allen, & Budy
~ #10 Prescott Street, Apt. #11
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Mit, Isabel, & @udy:

I was delighted to get your dandy letter Isabel and your fine
letter too judy. TI am awfully happy thet you had a nice trip and that
you are not loaated so pleasantly. I will write a longer letter when
Jayhawk Rebounds #17 is mailed the first part of the week.

I just canted to let you — that TI io snwell your golf clubs |
postpaid to you this morning and I sent your shoes, Mit, Parcel Post.
The Express was $1.50 and the Parcel Post .42 I tried to find room in
the corrugated box for the shoes but the golf clubs, golf balls, and
golf bag took up all the space.

Last night I got home from the jayhawk Nibble about 9:00 o'clock.
The Nibble is a little feed. and dance to weloone new students to the
. University. By the time I packed the stuff, shined your shoes and shined
Bob's it was 1:00 ofclock. You may find some difference in the looks of the
shoes because I don't believe I ever saw a “Cornier" pair, mud and Country
Club debris was securely fastened to them. I washed them off with soap —
then gave them a good polishing. I did the same for Bob.

I might ad@ that when I was a youngster at home there : was 6 of us and
somehow I got the job of shining all the Allen's shoes every Saturday night
for Sunday. You can see why I am very proficient in such a very fine
ealiing. That is the way I got my start in life, and I am continueing it
in the very same fine way. My prescription for young men is to take a box ui
of Shinola with a very good shoe brush and apply a copious portion of the
Shinola on the cleaned surface of the outraged shoe, with the use of a lot of
elbow grease. Then put another coat on and a lot more of elbow grease. Then
apply a coat of Shinole on that portion of the shoe between the sole and the
upper leather. After you have done all this sprinkle a little bit of water
on the shoe for lustre, polish again and then use a rag on the surface of the —
dampened shoe. You will then have what you are about to receive in that
Parcel Post package. ae don't keep old Grandpappy Allen shining shoes all his life,
because already Grandmemmy and Grandpappy have gone to war by talking care of
"Stormy" and Jill and all the other little Jacks and Jills that have come
our Waye \

 

I had an ideal box for the golf clubs because three years ago I had
sent my clubs to Kenneth Smith to have them cleaned and repaired. You remember
on the shelf in the garage was a long corrugated box that I had saved for
some purpose, and it was just for this purpose apparantly, that I saved it,
because I don't know where I would have gotten a box that would have filled
the — any better.