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us over for dinner (he has woman who gets up stuff for Sunday). "You should have asked him if he was expecting to get married and have a wife to keep company" advised Grandma. Mrs. B. said she didn't tell anybody he was coming to dinner, "you know how people gabble"; but she doesn't know that when Bertha Langdon phoned up, (Mrs. B. was upstairs) I spread the news. Grandma's sense of humor was "out" today. After a long silent pause while Mrs. B. was liesurely finishing her meat, ("I'd rather use my mouth eating than talking") Grandma, in search of conversation, inquired, "Have you got your teeth in today?"

Maude tells that 6½lb. Bette Diane was born last Monday night! Mrs. Blanche Hammond came in to tell a lot of funny stories of her youthful dramatic ambitions. She is writing a book now on Mrs Somebody's Boardinghouse. [[strikethrough]] B [[/strikethrough]] "Put in the story about Grandma" urged Maude. "When one of the men of the family had been offered more pudding, he replied 'I've had sufficient.' 'You've been fishing?' 'I've had plenty!' 'You caught twenty?' 'Woman, you're a fool!' 'You lost your pole? Oh, that's too bad.'"

I [[strikethrough]] hav [[/strikethrough]] stopped in to see Mabel Sat., but she was visiting her aunt. Her mother was up, but achey. The little black mongrel, "Wiggly"