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Where one does not go, or see any body, it seems hard to find much to write about that is very interesting. 
Lena carried off with her some tattin that I happened to have made in my box, to trim some towels that she was going to make for presents, after find-ing out first if I had made it for anything in particular and then telling me not to make her anything got x mas. For that was all she wanted. She mind you, has done a lot for other people. when she came out before she brought home from Boston, a frame, and yellow silk to make us a shade for out lamp. The trimming is a little narrow edge composed of first a tiny blue rose and then a yellow one, I think it will make up very pretty when she gets time to do it. That us going to be my x mas from her. Arthur brought home the other night a neighbor from below us, who is making a lamp for himself and had been in town to price shades, with his wife and he said that you could not get