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you will remember I told you that they were going; also that last spring when I was down to see Jimmie she and I could not agree in our attitude toward Germany. Now, though she glories in some of the presents brought her, she has somewhat changed her ideas of the conditions and people of Germany. I asked her how Hedwig had found things there and she said that she had been disappointed in her sister and brothers there, especially in the brothers. She says that they are greedy and grasping, that she saw no great deprivation, that it was discouraging to sacrifice here and go over there to find them hiring servants (though there a servant costs little). One day her brothers took her to the movies but left her to pay all the bills. One of these dear relations even asked her if she didn't think (naming a relation here in America) wouldn't like to give (name of a brother, I believe) $1000? They seem to think we are made of money over here. Hedwig replied that he didn't have $1000 to give away. She says