Viewing page 31 of 32

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Paris will receive but the Gotha's are still  active, if only our anal? was ready. Mr. Stillman was often so depressed before the war and looking forward to troubles in our country,  he never thought of what has happened - this breakdown of civilization. The young  will be in a different world from ours and especially the young girls. They will never answer to a society life after this. You must have nephews in the army. Mrs. Rockfeller's eldest son, I know but the second is also of conscription age. Our role is the hardest to know thus so far away & not to be able to help them.   I have my nephew in The Transportation. he was first at headquarters but now is in active service. I often think of Father saying "As long as we have to destroy life to live we will never rise very high in the blue," And then again, "the brain of man is not made to understand the Universe." His contemplation of the lives of insects taught him that there is little to hope in this world. Bertha Morisot used to say she wanted to live if only from curiosity. I hope her curiosity has been satisfied in another