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some bureau scarfs and doilies that a woman brought in. I do not myself care for machine hemstitching, but, as such stuff goes, I thought it looked pretty well. The woman wanted it merely as an edge to crochet into, so I hope she will think it O.K. 

I hope you are keeping well. Did you go anywhere Thanksgiving? I hope you were not alone. Jimmie had eleven to dinner - us three, her sister, husband, and three children, Haudschi's sister, and a friend of Jimmies - Miss Meigo, and Ruth was home for just a little while - long enough to eat dinner. Ruth, you will perhaps remember, is Jimmie's daughter. She graduated from high school last June and entered a hospital in Gloucester in September to train as a nurse. Her probation period lasts five or six months, so we don't know as yet whether she will qualify, but she seems to be doing fairly well, and appears enormously improved in her general attitude toward work and people. Her Aunt Harriet gave up her position as Superintendent of nurses in the Obstetrical Dept. of the Lynn Hospital, and drove her car and some passengers to California just before I went this summer. While she