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and the first day 50 women came and it was advertised only in one paper and in a very inconspicuous place.  At 3: 15 when I left the League, poor Miss Moore who is in charge of it was still taking their stories and had had no lunch.  We hope very much that the city will take this over quite soon and the sooner we can put the facts before the city the better.  In the meantime one society after another is having conferences on the unemployed which is good publication if for nothing else .  The unemployed being still hungry!  It is exasperating indeed to have to be so frightfully slow.

Kate is not yet particularly well and if on Sunday i can get away I am going for a night into the country to come back on Monday;  she has to be a little bit careful, and ought to have someone to look after her.

There is some wonderful sculptury on exhibition here in New York, by Muenier, on Labor subjects.  I hope that Kate and I will be able to go up to Columbia and see them.  I will write you about them when I have seen them.

How is Miss Peggy? And is she still waiting under the mistletoe?!  It was too bad she did not allow me to have my little joke with the Doctor that day.  I am sure that one kiss would have been hers anyway, and who knows what else?  But she looked so dangerous I did not dare, and you looked so shocked.

I must stop now and get up and get dressed and scoot