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Sunday

Dear Folks:

It is about quarter of six.  I have been at home all day nursing my cold and reading.  The folks have gone away.  Miss Naylor has just brought me in a large saucer full of ice cream and now I am in the kitchen writing while my handkerchiefs are boiling out.  I don't like to give them to her to do when I have a cold and, besides, I might need some of them.

I hope that you are escaping this epidemic.  I thought that I was getting the best of mine once last week but it grew worse again.  For all that, I don't feel sick other than for the disagreeable chest and nose condition.  I have been in school right along.

That Washington affair was bad, wasn't it?  I wondered if you felt anxious about Doris and Sid but concluded that, as the papers said many government employees didn't even get to work that morning, you would probably decide they weren't even in for work to say nothing of theatre going.  I thought Doris might telegraph just the same.  I am looking forward to her letters and yours to-morrow.

Buster, the dog, has been very sick.  He came down some time before the rest of us did.  Indeed I am wondering if he passed it on to us.  Myrtle had it after him.  Of course she proceeded to cough and sneeze profusely.  Anyway, we are all now - even grandma Naylor - engaged in concert works.

Mr. Millington is after me again.  He told Mr. Cole the other morning that anything of Oscar Wilde's was taboo in the school.  He Mr. C. said he didn't know what he meant and asked me if I did.  It came to me that a modern play I had encouraged the children to buy, since we can get so little out of the school authorities in that line, was one of his.  It is most strongly recommended by Prof. Baker of Harvard, Jimmie told me, and is also on the Boston list of outside reading as well as on that of the Harvard-Cleveland course of study which I got at Harvard this summer.  I showed both lists to Mr. Cole and explained my position - that, following the idea as outlined by Mr. Thoms: my summer teacher, I desired a modern play to take up before going on with an ancient drama,