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[[preprinted]] 130 [[/preprinted]] Now is this not strange? I very much love my wife and children and yet I feel that now they are away for a few days [[underlined]] I [[/underlined]] am having a vacation. Why do I feel so? My way of living is simpler than ever before. nothing special happens. It is this fact that every change is welcome. Variety is the spice of life. I shall go to bed earlier than usually. get thru my meals earlier than usually and yet I am not sorry at all that my dear wife and children are away for awhile. [[underlined]] for - awhile. [[/underlined]]. I suppose [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 131 [[/preprinted]] if it were for more than a few days I would not feel the same way. Thurlow made me a disc of B. Bakelite on press to day which is so far superior to a disc of Shellac made under the same conditions as to reinforce my belief in Bakalite which during the last few weeks has become rather modest. I also found out by reading the patent of Herbert Berliner that our way of making gramophone or Phonograph records by impregnating paper with Bakelite and then compressing under