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literature sold and exposed publicly in kiosk and public newspaper stands. Evening went to [[underlined]] Jacobi  [[/underlined]]. took dinner with him alone and remained till midnight. He tells me that [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] tradesmen are so dishonest that ordinarily they send in bills intending to allow 25% rebate. He says they try to steal and overcharge in the most stupid way. I saw his electric wiring which is very defective altho' the best [[underlined]] Paris [[/underlined]]can offer. His plumbing is of the same poor grade. [[underlined]] Physicians [[/underlined]] in Paris [[underlined]] say bathing is unhealthy! [[/underlined]]Art, eating and other trifles or superfluities of life acquire here a preponderant importance What a race of giants compared to these [[triflers]], is [[strikethrough]] beini [[/strikethrough]] being raised on the other side of the Atlantic!
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March 31. Up early writing letters etc Till noon went for stroll interrupted again by showers. Went for lunch in a fine restaurant "Grand Vattell Saw some french women licking their fingers at table! Took nap then joined in crowd in streets Unusual number of jewelry stores exhibiting jewels of incredible vulgarity and extraordinarily high priced. This is characteristic always the unnecessaries of life and reminders of barbarian splendor of antiquity but everything else here seems inferior. Evening went to [[underlined]] Jacobs' [[/underlined]] for supper then with him to a play by Bernstein called "Le Secret". Shabby hardly ventilated little theater as one would expect in the bowery but seats cost 15 frcs a piece!
April 1. 1914. Up early. Letters all morning to [[Rahelete Geslleschaft]]. then took lunch
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