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up later.  Asks me if I'll go over next door to see his mother & father who are still here from the south.  Do so.  Find them fine, the mother very beautiful & slender, tall, finest New England type.  Just beginning to show age a little.  How sad it is to see these glorious flowers of humanity beginning to fade.  The father seems at the very height of his prime.  Fine looking man with thoughtful dark eyes,a very musical and expressive voice, much like his painter son in many ways.  They are most gracious to me and speak in gratitude of the little helps I may have extended to their son.  A very noble father and mother and the painter appreciates the fact.  Go back to D's studio.  Find Aitken still [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] in his studio next door.  All go out for a drink.  Aitken orders scotch for the 3 of us in spite of prohibition.  I propose the toast, "To the boys of 76"  Aitken & Dickinson drink it in good humor.  A had been a Captain in France in the recent war.  A brings out a bronze coin he designed for the Pan Pacific Exposition [[strikethrough]] [[Says p?]] [[/strikethrough]] to place alongside my British penny  a fine coin.
   Aitken says Weinman designed the new U.S. dime.  Says the designers at the U.S. mint were responsible for the rejection of Saint-Gaudens coin which Roosevelt ordered.  Have another drink of Scotch  I propose "To the boys of 61"  All right.  Little later we drink a beer I say "To the boys of 98"  D says "next time when we do the boys of 1918 we'll have to drink the real stuff."  So it was.

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