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Glen Echo. I had a time getting Mabel home, but at last she came. She is a wilful stubborn girl, wholly without any sensibility for older people, almost impossible to guide, and without parental restraint at all. I foresee they will have trouble aplenty, even if only in the boy-line. When she comes to try to work she will flare up at any sort of discipline and be thrown out of her job the first thing. She is slow at books, too, and I doubt if she will get thru high school. But aside from Miss Colcord, I haven't any interest in her future, and think in another year or so, Doris won't either. She is quite aware of her faults now, but is trying to coach her in Latin which she failed in order for her not to have to take it over. And what makes me madder is, that we didn't have to go clear around that pond to swim. The children all go along the fence til they get to the water on the house side and then go in, - they were there in numbers. 

We had a little shower thru the night, but scarcely enough to lay the dust, still it rained gently a while and may today. I hope you get it. How are you managing with your washing? Are you taking your dinners out? Isn't it quite certain your leave to work up here a week will he granted?

Doris.