Mrs. Culp's Diary, Tuesday, October 12, 1937

Else gets her hair dyed

The Culps drove over to St. Petersburg today to surprise Else, but the surprise was on them. Not knowing they were coming, Else had made an appointment with her hairdresser — “she had her hair dyed,” Mrs. Culp wrote — and she was not at home. Apparently the Culps had a key to her new apartment, which Mrs. Culp opined was “O.K. for the money.” Walter too…