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and 2 cotton rag rugs for the bedroom at .65 a-piece They are all pretty & look very well & make the place more home like. It seems nice to be in a little home again and where it is so easy to do the work. It is what might be called 3½ rooms I guess which is what you estimated as our average, you know. The front room is living room & dining room combined as they have an open arch way between them and together are only 22 feet. liv. room 12 by 13 & dining room 10 x 12. windows all the way across the front to the south. I shall have 2 get a sewing machine I can get one for ten dollars but I sold mine for $8. & it makes me mad. How is Dot coming along? Does she still wake up & cry in the night and do you still get up and spank her. Its no use to do that as I told you. You think I cannot speak from experience. Well here is what a young mother told me in the train coming back here. She told me of her own experience & that