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intelligent!  She just looks at you as though she knows and understands everything you say and do.  She seemed to remember me and let me carry her right away without any fuss.  She is on the go every minute--has energy unbounded!  And, as Willie says, she is just overflowing with mischief-- the looks that she gives you with those big eyes--you have never seen such devilment in your life!  Willie looks better and has a great deal more pep that when she went away.  She went to her book club last night and delivered her 28-page paper on an "Introduction to Modern Drama" that she's been working on for the last month. ...... We are going to stay on here for another year.  We hope someone nice will take the upper flat soon.  The Henshaws don't look very promising right now--think they will stay where they are.  The people are moving in next door and someone has moved into one of the little houses back of us on Oxford Place--don't know any of them even by sight yet.  Majorie can be with us only for a week.  She says her heart is weak and the doctor has absolutely forbidden her to work.  We are both sorry for her and for ourselves in losing her.  Am going to try to get someone else right away.

[[underlined]]To Mother, March 16, 1930[[/underlined]]:  Babka continues to occupy the limelight in our household.  Today it was very warm and we took some pictures of her with her "tam" on--she was too cute for anything.  We got a gate for Bab's room and put it up across her door so she can be in there and look out.  It seems to work out well.  Bab was in her room for along time alone this morning amusing herself.  She is so active that she is continually tumbling around but never seems to hurt herself appreciably.  This afternoon she was on her pottie-chair in her room.  I was down cellar and Willie stepped into the bathroom for a moment.  There was a crash in Bab's room and we found her underneath the upset pottie-chair, with the pottie upset and its contents distributed over the floor.  She had got ready to leave the chair and had tipped the chair over on top of her trying to get out.  After a brief crying spell, she was none the worse for the experience although the rug was somewhat the worse for it.  She throws a ball as well as a child three-years old, I think.  She doesn't make sentences yet but her vocabulary is enlarged and she makes up all kinds of words.  Wait till you see the pictures of her. ...... We are trying to get a girl to take Majorie's place.  Majorie has left but will come in evenings to take care of Bab when we want her.  We are having some people in Wednesday night to try to repay some of the hospitality extended me while Willie was away.  We are also going to the Griswold Club dance next Friday night.  Willie is very well and seems to be in about as high spirits as I have ever seen her in. ...... Your New York State income tax is all taken care of.

[[underlined]]To Mother, April 4, 1930[[/underlined]]: I had to go to Cleveland yesterday on business. ...... Bab seems to have thrown off her cold with