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Mama and I had been working a good deal of the [[strikethrough]] time [[/strikethrough]] day at the dinner card and menus. These were written with white ink on blue ribbon and fringed at the ends. Mama wrote them all while I fringed and cut.

The table when all finished was very pretty. Inside of the table, I mean near the center, was a blue cloth and the outside a white one. The center piece was of violets and another

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blue flower. Two side pieces were of the blue flowers with ferns. Ferns were also spread out on the table and the blue menus and dinner cards looked very well.

The shades to the candles were also blue, and a small flag with Y on it hung from the mantle piece.

In the hall a large blue flag with an enormous Y on it hung in front of the large mantle piece and so the first thing seen was this as a