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the Herald says, but I have had a lot of shocks lately and am easily impressed. When the Herald announced Mr. Havemeyer's serious illness he was dying, already dead when I got the paper; that has made me nervous - Well thank heaven you are well, and I pray may keep so. you will be going out I suppose this month, and if I am to believe the reports never has there been such falls, it is much more agreeable to think of you dancing as the $150,000 [[Raudviple?]] tale than in bed with the grip; I make of these is any truth of its being prevalent and fatal , for that is what we are told - Here we seem to feel the hard times at home more than you do the factory here only works five days of the week and there are five hundred workers out of unemployment in Miese alone - As for automobiles, they seem to go a begging, no long lists of buyers names - and no telegrams from those who are touring - When we have the money to spend France