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May 28th, 1929.

Dear Diary:

This is a little more data for the bookkeeping department.

For my trip to New York I invested in one imitation or copy of a French [[crossed-out]] cpaheau [[/crossed-out]] chapeau, turban, plus a VEIL. Aha! the veil — it is intricate. This charming ornamentation for a practical head cost $18.50. Overturned my conscience, all my New England and Scotch ancestry and my own sense of thrift, and up went my defiance like a sky rocket with all of heaven to burst forth in — in radiance — and I have promenaded the dirty Toledo station platform to the tune of a reckless, gloriously extravagant recklessness of thrift with my chin up, the veil a flowing in the breeze, my uncovered eye seeing a laugh in everything an the "joie de vivre" — love of adventure, high in my blood and here is the investment it has been!

On the train the veil intrigued audience aplenty. What am I selling? Aviation — commercial aviation — Wacos — Yes, dear Diary, they were surprised and I had to excuse myself once to relish the surprise that I precipitated. A well-known brush company had drawing room on the train, and the three older officials had had enough drinks to make them at ease — to lose their usual self-consciousness. I learned a great deal about the brush business being only parallel "apres tout" of my business aviation and human nature.

I.

Results: Heard the usual reasons for the average [[strikethrough]] size [[/strikethrough]] bigness or average smallness of a [[?]] business — i. e. indicative of the potential ability and capacity of the men running it. Big men in the big jobs. Parallel - Waco - Parallel - in business - aviation.

II.

Result: Heard the usual reasons for the mediocre results of mediocre personal success or failure in life, which is marriage usually, all of which only reiterated the reasons (by lack of them) I helped make a success of my half of my successful marriages.

Parallel — Romance of Waco — Final Sale.
Result — a liason interest in aviation — and "Waco" — result — good advertising. Result — in human nature business 

May 29th, 1929.

Dear Diary:

The veil held two elevators at different times while I was hurrying to make many important gears shift noiselessly by not making me tardy, which irritates men — which makes women a "flop". Well, what about that? Keep them (men) wanting to have you around - good business any way you figure it. Insincerity doesn't do it either.

The clerks were all anxious to please. I let them know it helped me — sold aviation interest — air-mindedness + Waco — W-a-a-Ko