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village - All of this sounds like the lovely castles in the air we build in conversation & I need only Mr. Whitney to tear it down piece by piece with cruel realties!

This is Labour Day! A casual listener would decide in panic that he was in the heart of Russia on the verge of assassination by a revolutionist. I never heard such a noise and wouldn't dare to set my foot outside the door. I only wish I were quietly at work in the office. I feel that there would be less confusion there!

I am enclosing a clipping which you have probably already seen, but you may not. If Mother gets abroad this coming winter, I'm prepared to [[?]] with you, if they'll take anyone who doesn't do stenography. Did you see that the Marines were calling desperately for stenographers only that was for the duration of the war. Heaven knows what we're all going to do but I'm glad I'm at work. It takes you wonderfully out of yourself and makes you realize that your life is only one of a thousand just as vital as your own.

If you want to get away from Newport,