HTML: 6A 1886-1887
<T264> Gustav Goltz, South of Foundry [?].
April 26, 1886.
Dear Friend. The cow bore a healthy calf last Saturday evening. I will bring it down this week, or next Monday.
With my regards, F.A.M.
Mr. Kuhman, Sparta, Wisc..
May 6, 1886.
Dear Friend. I received your letter yesterday evening. You say you want to buy a cow but you don’t have time to come up and look at it. You want me to bring the cow down, and you will buy it if you like it. But I don’t have any more time than you do, and I can’t drag my cow around in such an uncertain way. Goltz already cheated me once, and I don’t want to be cheated again.
The cow that is for sale is black, well proportioned, and had her second calf about a week ago. She is a good milk cow, and not mean or wild. The price is $25. You probably work in the paper mill. If Mr. Newton or the Clerk writes a few lines saying that the money is there ready for me, I will bring you the cow next week.
<Written in English.> to Henry Crouse, Moab, Utah.
May 9, 1886 [excerpt], from your Sister.
… Our boy Ernest lives at Kerbyville, Josephine Co., Oregon … has two children, a girl and a boy … Ernest Gerstenberg … of 23 summers …
<T264, cont.> August Schlomann, 45 South St., Corner of Webster Ave., Jersey City Heights, N.J.
[May or June, 1886].
Dear Children! We would like to know whether you are still alive and well, and whether the workers’ movement has harmed your business, too. We have not heard from you since March 16th. We are all well now except Grandmother who is always ailing. Ernest Gerstenberg has returned from the Pinery healthy and well. He cooked for us for four weeks, and is now working in the shingle mill in La Crosse where my Adolph works. As we hear from other people, he is well and doing find. But he doesn’t take good care of his belongings. He told us that he lost a $20 gold piece in the pine woods; last year he lost $7 at the county fair in Sparta. Here in our house, we also found a $5 bill in the trash.
We are having very dry weather, which is doing a lot of damage around here. Many farmers who live on the Ridge have no water. Their pastures have dried up and the summer wheat that just came up has stopped growing.
We have plenty of spring water and we have to water a lot. My winter wheat <T265> and corn are excellent. Let us hear from you soon. Our regards to all of you. Your Grandfather.
Mr. K.G. Wünsche, Schönbach near Löbau in Saxony.
June 23, 1886.
Dearest Friend! Your friendly letter of May 2 finally reached the right harbor after a long journey. The reason for this was that you changed my address a little. I want to express my deepest gratitude for the trouble you are taking on my behalf, to make the life of my youth mates known to me.
The clouds in the political sky are gone, but with great desire we are looking out for clouds in our weather sky, as we are tortured by a long lasting drought. Winter wheat, barley, and corn are doing well so far; rye, oats, and summer wheat are one foot high and already have ears. We will not have much hay this summer, and the fruit crop was destroyed again by frost on May 16.
The reason for your refusal to send me your picture remain quite obscure to me.
Concerning the much-praised Christian Love, I have to confess that in my opinion the so-called Christians possess it least of anyone. To prove this, I only need to direct your attention to the recent cruelties in Belfast in Ireland in the name of religion. In my opinion, all religions were invented for the sole purpose of enslaving people. Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed were good teachers of morals, but—the people who turned their doctrines into religions did it only for their own advantage; they sowed discord and forgot that all men are brothers.
August Schlomann, Jersey City.
July 7 [1886].
Dear Children! We received your letter of June 18, and were glad to hear that all of you are still alive at least. The intense hot spell and drought still continues, and even gets worse from day to day. Your aunt who has traveled to Washington Terr. probably has friends and relatives there already. What is her husband’s profession, and in which county is Ellensburg? About the strike, I fully agree with you—they want to work only eight hours. <T266> Your business could not exist if you worked only eight hours [a day]; neither could the farmers. My Adolph visited us on July 4 with his wife and two lovely children, and stayed a few days. We also expected Ernest [G.] but he did not come. People say he spends all his money in the saloons. he makes $1.40 per day. I am very sorry for him, but he won’t listen to advice. He is too smart. Emma said he was never dependent upon himself [never dependable?], and he told us that he was his own master since he was 14 years old and made his own living with strangers.
Aunt Dora nearly always has a toothache. She has had a few teeth pulled, but that doesn’t help. Grandmother has to do most of the work by herself. Louise [Emma’s daughter, b. abt. 1881—anticipating her visit] will not have to herd the cows; they are on pasture. But there are plenty of little things to do, so the time will pass quickly for her. Dora—as old as she is—is only a child herself, and likes to play sometimes too.
July 9, 1886:
This morning we had a nice shower. The good Lord has not completely forgotten us.
July 19, 1886:
Since the single shower of rain, the hot spell and drought has continued, although the last few nights have been cold. The drought is doing a lot of damage, but hail and storms could do even worse harm. We have been bringing in the crops and making hay.
With greetings to all of you, your Grandfather.
Dora went to La Crosse with Adolph and his wife for a few days, so she is not at home.
P.S. I am afraid that I’ll never have the pleasure of seeing you visit us. You will soon become so used to city ways that you can’t enjoy farm life.
Ernest Gerstenberg, Works for Bernhard Brook, Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
Sept. 26, 1886.
Dear Ernest! On the 21st of this month Dora mailed you a <T267> package with your picture in it, at the post office at Cashton. She addressed it to Adolph F. Meissner, as you had never written to her personally. Yesterday we got a letter from Loretta, saying that Adolph and his wife and children have moved. I will write to the postmaster in Eldred, instructing him to deliver the package to you. I never received the letter that you claim to have written to me from La Crosse. If you aren’t going to Oregon you can stay with us again this winter. We are the same as always, and send out greetings. Your Grandfather.
When you write to us, use the correct address: Cashton, Monroe Co., Wis.
<Written in English.> to Postmaster at Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
26 Sep 1886 [excerpt].
… My son Adolph F. Meissner … has left for Oregon … if Ernest is still there, I wish you to deliver the pictures and accompanying letter to Ernest Gerstenberg instead of returning the same. …
<T267, cont.> Ernest Gerstenberg, Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
Oct. 27, 1886.
Dear Ernest! I see from your letter that you are well and healthy, and are making good money. Loretta wrote in a letter to her mother that they arrived safely at Ernest Meissner’s place in Oregon and that they would like to return right away if they had the money. We would like to have you stay with us again this winter. Carl, August, and Dora send their regards.
Your Grandfather.
Mr. K.G. Wünsche, Schönbach near Löbau in Saxony.
Nov. 15, 1886.
Dear Friend! I have received your letter of Sept. 12, 1886 and was happy to hear that the good Lord gave you such a good crop. We cannot complain either. Summer was very dry, the winter wheat was very god, and the whole autumn was very beautiful. We have not yet had any snow so far, and only mild frost.
I return Mr. Rade’s greeting, in the same friendly way as he has given it. I was happy to hear that he does not consider me an outcast, despite my different religious views. <T268> I also think that Minister Rade is a very good man despite his pious faith, who preaches what he is paid to preach. You seem to consider it an insult that I called Mr. Rade a disciple of Loyola [i.e., a Jesuit: see <T239> June 1, 1884]; instead, he should consider it an honor. The Jesuits, who were expelled from almost every country in Europe, have got a good foothold here and are very highly respected, as well as the Catholics of other orders. Almost every little town has a monastery and three, four, five, or six churches. You can see from this that we are pious. You find it strange that a Jewish Rabbi preached in a Christian church. Here we all believe in one God. The good woman who gave you a description of America would surely know better if she were to come over here.
Only a short time ago, eight Socialists were condemned to death in Chicago—among them Mr. Spies to whom I wrote the letter of which I sent a copy to you. [Haymarket riot, May 4, 1886: "The affair aroused anti-labor feeling, weakening the labor movement." This, along with the failure of a strike in 1886 against Gould’s railroads, led to the decline of the Knights of Labor.—World Book Encyclopedia.]
[Insert from <T269>:] In La Crosse, a town 28 Engl. miles from here, due to a complaint from all the ministers who combined their efforts to support the law, the Mayor had everyone arrested who did any business on Sunday, as there are butchers, bakers, barbers, newspaper printers, streetcar and railway conductors, beer and brandy inns, and all kinds of other stores. The next Sunday the ministers were arrested by the contrary party because they also do business on Sunday. In Sparta, a small town 16 miles from here, anyone who wants to sell beer or brandy has to pay $600 a year in advance, but they cannot sell it on Sunday. [End of insert.]
Here in the country we live quite peacefully. Everyone believes whatever he wants. Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and whatever they might be, are good neighbors. You can see what religion can do, by the fact that in Ohio a woman claims to be a goddess in a human body. She has many followers, and a short time ago a respected preacher joined the community. Faith works wonders. The reason of many people is still very limited.
In Chicago, 25,000 workers of the "Pork and Beef Packers" (people who slaughter pigs and steers and cure the meat!) are on strike. That means they aren’t working because their employers want them to work 10 hours a day and they want to work only eight hours.
In spite of the beautiful weather and the good crop, the farmers complain about hard times anyway, because prices are so low. Fat steers sell for 1-1/2 to two cts. <T269> a pound live weight, pigs three cts., summer wheat 50 cts., winter wheat 65 cts.; butter was only eight cts. per lb. in summer, 15 cts. now.
I hope, dear friend, that this letter of mine will reach you while you are not only alive but also in good health. I feel no great change in my strength. I hope you will favor me soon with another letter. Thanking you for the many signs of friendship that you have given me, I remain your F.A.M.
Ernest Gerstenberg, Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
Nov. 18, 1886.
Dear Ernest! Yesterday we received your letter of the 14th. Until the day before yesterday, we had the most beautiful autumn weather: sunshine, mild frost and no rain. The cattle were still on the pasture. For the past two days it has been snowing all the time. We already have six inches now. We sowed wheat onto the cultivated land on the hill; the boys also made a nice road up to it. We have received 20 small carps from Washington that we want to put into our little lake. We had a crop of 68 bu. wheat and 48 bu. rye, all put in and threshed in beautiful weather. Our corn was also very nice. We fattened a cow and want to slaughter it tomorrow. <T270> We also have two big pigs that need to be slaughtered. So we won’t run out of meat and bread this winter, although money is scarce.
You wrote that you would like to have your pictures. I already told you in my last letter that your pictures were in the package that we sent to Adolph, and that I wrote to the Postmaster to give the package and the letter to you. Didn’t you sign the receipt in Adolph’s name? If you have the package and the letter addressed to Adolph, then open them and you will find everything.
You say you won’t be staying where you are any longer. What are you thinking of doing? Will you come back here or go to Oregon? Ernest’s wife wrote us that Adolf [sic] and Ernest took up homestead claims next to each other, and that they are going to build a barn right away. Both families and their four kids live together now in one small room.
Sophie Kloes, wife of Henry Kloes in Cashton, died a short time ago after the birth of her baby. Dora is not married yet—she will soon go to a cloister [joke-LPM]. We are all quite well and send our greetings. Write again soon. We have not heard from Schlomann nor from Kummerfeld for a long time.
Your Grandfather.
Louis Runkel, Druggist, La Crosse, Wis.
Nov. 26, 1886.
Dear Sir! I received your inquiry about marjoram and thyme on Nov. 23rd. I don’t have any more marjoram, but I still have 11 half-pounds of thyme stalks and 1/2 lb. of leaves. If you wish, I can reduce the stalks to leaves, but I believe that the leaves retain their strength better on the stalk. Thyme sells for 25 cts. per lb. with stalks and 50 cts. without; or if you take my entire stock I will throw in the 1/2 lb. of leaves for <T271> half price (25 cts.) Let me know whether you want to have it shipped by express or otherwise.
I still have about 100 lbs of sage, for 20 cts. per lb.
If you will tell me how much marjoram and thyme I can sell you next autumn, I will take this into consideration when I plant it.
Louis Runkel, La Crosse, Wis.
Nov. 29, 1886.
I will send you today six lb. thyme for 25 cts. per lb. = $1.50 by express.
Received with thanks.
August Schlomann, Jersey City Heights, N.J.
Dec. 3, 1886.
Dear Children! Even if you are still alive, you seem to have entirely forgotten about us. If August has too much to do with his business, Emma at least could write a few lines. We are all quite well. My Adolph went to his brother to Oregon with his wife and children and took up a homestead claim there. Ernest Gerstenberg loaned Adolph $40 more for his trip. About two weeks ago we received a letter from Ernest Gerstenberg. He was in Dakota—well and happy—and was working with a steam-powered threshing machine, making $2 a day plus food. Dora sent her picture to Emma some time ago. Did you receive it?—
We send you our greetings. Your Grandfather.
Joseph Schamm, La Crosse, Wis.
Dec. 11, 1886.
Dear friend. I have a good fat cow that I would like to sell to you. I think it would be best to slaughter the cow here, put it on a wagon, and drive it to you. How much would you pay per lb., and when would you want the meat? Or would you rather come up here and buy the cow while it is alive? Please reply soon.
Your friend, F.A.M.
<T272> Karoline Gerstenberg, Kummerfeld near Pinneberg near Hamburg, Germany.
Dec. 27, 1886.
Dear daughter. It certainly seems that you don’t care whether I am still alive or dead, but anyhow I want to let you know that I am celebrating my birthday today and that I am in very good health. I am now 82 years old. My wife has been ailing ever since her last childbirth—18 years ago [17—see <T126>: dau, b. autumn 1869] The child lay the wrong way around and was born dead.
It seems strange to me, dear Lina, when I think of you as an old woman already [b. Nov 1826—now 60]. My two oldest sons, Ernest and Adolph, who each have a wife and two children, are in Oregon, 2,000 miles west of here. They each have a homestead claim = 160 acres and are making farms for themselves. The climate there is a little warmer than here. Carl and August are still at home, also our Dora.
Your son Ernest worked with my Adolph last summer in La Crosse, 30 miles from here, in a shingle mill. In autumn, both went to Dakota to help with the harvest. Adolph went on to Oregon, and your Ernest [G.] wrote me that he is working with a threshing machine and makes $2 a day plus food. Since then I have not heard from him. The enclosed picture shows Ernest [G—see also 1 Jan 1887 letter to E.G. below.] seated with my daughter Dora beside him and a Norwegian girl standing behind them.
Last summer was very dry, but good nevertheless. The autumn was very beautiful, and now we have good tracks for sledding, but without severe cold. We have not heard from Schlomanns lately.
With the sincere wish that these lines may reach you in good health, I wish you a Happy New Year. Your father.
August Schlomann, Jersey City Heights, N.J.
Dec. 27, 1886.
Dear Children! As you have not yet answered my letter of Dec. 5, I will try once again to rouse you from your sleep. <T273> I am 82 years old today, and am still enjoying good health; so are all the others except Grandmother, who is always ailing. We hope that you may enter the New Year happy and well. Next summer, if Emma cannot come out, you must at least send us Louise, so she can play in the fresh air.
Mr. Biron, Editor of a German Journal, Milwaukee.
[Dec 1886 or Jan 1887].
Dear Sir! If these lines reach you (I do not have an exact address. I can only remember that I read many years ago a Freethinker paper called "The Torch" (Fackel). I would like to ask you to send me a free sample issue of the Freethinker paper if you still publish it.
Respectfully, F.A.M.
Ernest Gerstenberg, Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
Jan. 1, 1887.
Dear Ernest! We received your letter of the 26th of last month, and we thank you for your kind Christmas and New Year wishes. Our New Year wish for you in return is for a young, pretty wife, and a good farm where you will be able to raise young Gerstenbergs by the dozen.
Enclosed you will find a letter from your mother. I have already answered her, and sent her a picture of you and Dora.
I tried to explain to you how it came about that we addressed your pictures to Adolph, but you seem unable to understand me. I now enclose a letter to Adolph and 25 cts. You should mail it, and they will send your pictures to you.
We are all well; there is 1/2 foot of snow and good sledding tracks.
August and Emma Schlomann
Sunday, Jan. 9, 1887.
You finally sent me a sign! We no longer knew what to think, and we were starting to fear that you had an accident. I picked up your letter on Friday when I went to the post office. Last evening, Adolph [August?] went there again and brought home your Christmas gift. We are sorry to have you go to so much expense.
On Dec. 28, I received a letter (dated Dec. 14) from your mother at Kummerfeld. She is very much worried about Ernest because he has not written. I answered her at once and <T274> enclosed a letter that I had received from Ernest a few days earlier, as well as a letter from Dora and a picture of Ernest. This should calm her down for now.
I have looked on the map for Ellensburg [WA] (the place where your aunt lives). It is in the middle of the state in Yakima Co, on the Yakima river, in a very fruitful but still very sparsely settled region, but a railroad is planned which will go close by.
We also received a letter from Oregon yesterday. Last autumn the boys build a house, a barn, and chicken and pig sheds on their claims, and cleared four acres of land. They have not had any snow yet. Winter has just started, with rain.
We had a very dry summer, but a good crop nevertheless. Now we have 1/2 foot of snow and good sledding tracks. The boys are getting firewood for summer and making railroad ties. Farm products are very cheap here. I just sold a fat cow for $18.
If you, dear Schlomann, have trouble with your business, why don’t you confide in me. You think of me as a friend. We hope you won’t make us wait so long again for news about you. We all send our regards. Your Grandfather.
<Written in English.> Adolph F. Meissner, Kirbyville, Josephine Co., Oregon.
Jan. 1887.
Mr. Hase, Ellensburg, Washington Terr.
Jan. 9, 1887.
Dear Sir! I am the grandfather of Emma Schlomann in Jersey City, and for a long time I have been planning to sell out here and go to Washington, and I just heard from Schlomann that you have already lived there for several years. How do you like it? Aren’t the summers too dry and the winters too wet? Is there homestead land near where you live? How much does land cost per acre? Do you have good drinking water, or is it alkaline? If you could give me some information about all of this, I would be very much obliged to you.
<T275> Michael Biron, Milwaukee, Wis.
[Jan 1887].
Dear Sir! You will find enclosed 10 cts for the issue of the "Lucifer" that you sent me. After having read it, I understand that you write for a mostly Catholic audience. With your permission, I will tell you some of the thoughts that crossed my mind while reading.
You commend Jesus’ doctrine as the ideal humanity that makes man happy. But I believe that the deity, or the "Word," as you call it, has spoken through many wise men before and after Christ. Christianity (the Christian church) can exhibit more cruelties than any other known religion. Jesus’ doctrine, we must love our enemies, is impossible. Prussia is arming herself, fearing France’s hostility. She should say instead, "Oh, dear France, don’t hurt me. I will gladly give you whatever you want."
You prove by old books that Christ was a child of love. My reason already convinced me of this a long time ago. Among plants (as well as animals!) no female being brings forth fruit or seed if it was not stimulated by a male being. The origin of Christ is supposed to honor all illegitimate children. There is a natural marriage and a legal marriage, just as there is a religion and a church.
You say that the New Year will bring us a step closer to our ideal. It seems to me that the present era is going backward. I cannot find any of the big newspapers that think quite free. They accuse the Socialists and the Freethinkers whenever anything bad happens. All over the place, monasteries have been built and bigotry raises its proud head.
I also cannot agree with you on the question of property. You say that nature has been formed from stones, so the material from which it is made cannot be separated from Nature itself[?]. I would certainly like to know, when you go out in the wilderness and spend long years carving a farm out of a raw piece of land with hard toil and deprivation, <T276> how you can separate your work from the earth and soil that you have brought into this beautiful condition. You want inheritance tax like in England, where the real estate that one has occupied reverts to the King if the family dies out. You take the Bible as your rehabilitation [authority?], but who made the Bible, God or men?—
In America, the land belongs to the people. Anyone who wants to work can have 160 acres for his own use. Unfortunately, the representatives of the people have wasted millions of acres. Now let the people make a law that the 160 acres that are managed and occupied by a family are tax free, and that all other land is supposed to pay a certain amount of tax. Then tax capital, not labor. A farmer whose farm is supposed to be worth $1,000, but who is $1,000 in debt, has to pay taxes on $1000 and interest on $1000 as well. The capitalist who owns the money does not have to pay anything.
I don’t want to bore you any further with my idle talk. I have little hope. People are too stupid. Papers like yours are not read widely enough, and the big newspapers all turn their sails into the wind.
To make myself better known to you, I will tell you that I am 82 years old and that it has taken me a long time to get rid of the prejudices that I swallowed with my mother’s milk, but now I think I am almost entirely free, and have chosen reason as my guide.
Respectfully, F.A.M.
Ferdinand Kaiser, Eisleben.
Jan. 27, 1887.
As payment for your bill of Feb 2 1886 for 23.15 Mk, I send you herewith a money order for 22 Mk. [I have assumed credit for:] Phlox, best mixture, first quality, 1.40 Mk. From these phlox, not a single plant came up. I still had a few seeds of the same variety that I received from you two years ago. They all grew nicely. About the other seeds …
<Written in English.> Adolph F. Meissner, Kirbyville, Josephine Co., Oregon.
Jan 1887 [excerpt].
… near Ernest …
<T277> August and Emma Schlomann
[Feb. 1887].
Dear Children. We received your letter of the 3rd and we were glad to hear that all of you are well. We are all still the same as always.
I certainly believed for a long time that the continuing strikes are doing a lot of harm to your business. The farmers here are also having hard times because of the low prices for farm products. However, many people who own wooded land can help themselves out by making railroad ties, which bring more money.
We have had a very moderate winter, little snow, no severe cold except for a few days, and very good sledding tracks. Yesterday we had the first thawing weather this winter. It rained all day, but not enough to destroy the sledding tracks. Today we have north wind again and the weather is bright and clear.
Greeting all of you from us, I remain, your Grandfather.
Mr. Karl August Meissner, No. 519 Astor Street, Milwaukee.
Febr. 25, 1887.
Dearest friend! I see from the announcement that you sent about your entrance into the Chas Bainboal [?] Co. that you have not completely forgotten about your name-mate. I also see that you are still in good health. I was 82 years old last Christmas, and am still enjoying very good health.
I still have about 60 lb. of good sage here. If you could use it in your business, it would surely please me. I sell it here for 20 cts. per lb. wholesale and 40 cts. retail. If you wish, I will send you a sample.
With my friendly greetings, your F.A.M.
Mr. Sternberger.
March 25, 1887.
I received your letter a bit late. The new Postmaster in Sparta probably never heard of Mt. Pisgah. Since the railroad was built, the name is changed to Cashton. I therefore ask you to excuse me for being late.
<T278> I enclose the Stocks seeds that you requested. If the weather permits, I will come to Bangor next week.
With my friendly wishes, F.A.M.
Ernest Gerstenberg, Eldred, Cass Co., Dakota.
March 25, 1887.
Dear Ernest! We received your letter of March 17. Do you want to get married, since you need money so badly? I would be glad to send you $100 if I had it, but unfortunately I do not. It is so hard to sell anything. If you want to have a cow, you can certainly have one. If we have good winter wheat, I might make some money in autumn.
Have you written to your mother? Adolph’s address is: Kerbyville, Josephine Co., Oregon. We will be happy to hear from you now and then.
Your Grandfather.
August Schlomann
May 24, 1887.
Dear Children. You are surely wondering why I have not yet answered your letter of March 29. If one puts off something once, he will hardly ever get around to it again. As an excuse, I can say that I had my head and hands full all the time. Carl has been sick in bed for the past five weeks now. Also my wife has had a bad leg for about the same time, so not only were both of them unable to help me, but also Dora had to nurse them day and night. So August and I had to do all the spring work alone.
You say you have a lot of time now. Why don’t you send Dora [?? should be Louise?] to visit us? How do you dare to think that a farmer and gardener has lots of spare time in the spring, even if no sickness gets in the way?
We were all glad to hear that your little family was increased by a small boy, and we hope and wish that Emma and the little prince are well.
Karl feels better now, but I am afraid that it will take <T279> a long time for my wife to get well. We are having a very hot and dry spring and are waiting for rain every day, but in vain. You see that everyone has their own trouble.
With greetings and a kisses, I remain, your Grandfather.
P.S. It has been a long time since we last heard from Ernest. He was in Dakota.
See <T126>: A daughter died at birth in autumn 1869 when she was 32. Her last live birth was Nov 1866. See also <T272> Dec 1886. "My wife has been ailing ever since her last childbirth—18 years ago [i.e., 1868 - should be 1869?] The child lay the wrong way around and was born dead." This letter to August and Emma Schlomann dated May 24, 1887 is the first mention of her "bad leg," which was sore for the rest of her life, beginning just about at her 50th birthday. See <T297> Dec. 1888: "Her leg is sore from her foot almost up to her knee. It is swollen and infected, and a watery liquid comes through the skin, along with considerable itching. She has tried all kinds of lotions, but nothing helps. New skin forms but then breaks open again." These symptoms resemble "adult onset" diabetes, which could have been aggravated by childbirth.
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