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have "nervous prostration" before. I guess my whole life I went through enough worry + all the rest. But I am living to a good old age just the same. 
Last night it was graduation Barbara + Norma got their diplomas. Barbara Marden has got A's through the whole four years in every thing. she excells in everything she undertakes. they are talking Jackson college for her musick to major on. for which she is a number one. a very smart girld. Edith Trollope has just this year graduated from that same college. I am wondering what she is going to make. she is very much improved in health during these four years she has been away from home. so now she is like a good normal child. I hear Richard is improved, he is now living beyond the average of such children.
A fire today in the coal stove seems good all day yesterday I was cold it was a rainy day + no sunshine but to day being Saturday we have a fire to cook by so it will be quite nice to warm us up by
   Lena sent in my letter a couple of leaves for me to pin up to the curtains + plants start + grow from  the little notches "air plants" something to watch them come out she thought it might amuse me. you are not to worry over the measles now it is a good time to have them I had them in March a bad month + was very sick run down        Ma