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[[strikethrough]] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
162nd Day   204 Days to come
cont.

tact & 'Payneful' charm with its mysterious charm over animals - but this is no time for whimseee - for 25 is the deadline for girls. That is the age when they become worried & are apt to marry the safest person around them, & then is when [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] gravity starts getting the best of them, & wrinkles & ages them with the [[strikethrough]] relentlessness that only [[/strikethrough]] patient perseverance that only nature has. I have spent my most blooming years being too fat, & I've got two or three more years only of looking my best, which is only possible when I am thin as well as young, & still I am too fat. It is a crime - & I've got to get thin now, or it will be no use in a few years. Poor Sarah is in [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] the awful predicament of being really in love with her 40 year old boss who has been married for 16 years, & has a 15 year old beau [[boy]], & now he is in Reno getting a divorce to marry Sarah. He has had slight affairs with other girls, but I think more because he is so interested in people & so lonely, than because he is a roué. He never was happy with his wife, 


[[strikethrough]] THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
163rd Day   Corpus 
Christi - St. Barnabas  203 Days to come
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but he feels very fond of her & very indebted to her for his success. Mary asked me to try to reason with her, but somehow I find it very difficult because I can't help understanding & sympathizing with her side, especially as I don't know his family. Poor Mr Davis is having a fit & it is a tragic [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] - or rather pathetic situation. I think of tragic things as more influential & universal such as war, & pathetic things as personal. thank heaven Sarah didn't break them up, as they had never been happy, & thank heaven the boy is so old. When I hear things like that, & of Mrs Poste's death, & [[strikethrough]] Charles [[/strikethrough]] the Swan's devoted butler's death it makes me frightened to ever leave, [[strikethrough]] but then [[strikethrough]] until I realize that if I had been [[strikethrough]] there I [[/strikethrough]] here all along it is worse to see them happening & be powerless to help. Yesterday I took a chance & went to see the Mongolian Russian girl (& her English artist husband) who has been posing [[left margin]] his name is Victor Warner [[/left margin]] for me in Warnekes class. I was curious to see their home-life & his work. He has real talent in drawing & designing - & is cracked on Dynamic Symmetry,