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94 very much a well staged and well played dramatization on [[strikethrough]] Stev [[/strikethrough]] Robert Louis Stevenson's [[underlined in red]] Treasure Island. [[/underlined in red]] Just the play in time with my recent experiences. [[underlined in red]] We enjoyed the play immensely felt as interested as children. This was a real jolly evening for us. [[/underlined in red]] Nov 5. 1916.(Sunday) [[underlined in red]] All alone in the house. The children both at college. [[/underlined in red]] We feel as if we were beginning housekeeping again like during [[underlined in red]] first years of our married life. [[/underlined in red]] Nov 6. A very busy day getting thru my belated correspondence Phoning to office, factory and to Brooklyn etc. [[underlined in red]] Kirk Brown [[/underlined in red]] wrote a [[/underlined in red]] nasty letter and tries to frighten us [[/underlined in red]] by threatening a law suit. At factory they have some trouble with the [[underlined in red]] quality of cresol imported [[/underlined in red]] from England. [[underlined in red]] Orders [[/underlined in red]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 95 [[underlined in red]] have been good this month [[/underlined in red]] and prove to [[underlined in red]] be largest on record [[/underlined in red]] Was able to brush thru most of my belated correspondence. Nov 7. This is election day. [[underlined in red]] George [[/underlined in red]] has arrived from Cornell to vote for the first time. He [[underlined in red]] looks much better [[/underlined in red]] and says he is no longer worried with rheumatism. He [[underlined in red]] shaved his moutache. [[/underlined in red]] He is full of life and nearer his old self again. Drove around in little Buick car He voted for [[underlined in red]] Hughes [[/underlined in red]] I voted for [[underlined in red ]] Wilson [[/underlined in red]] but split my ticket over several political parties. Most beautiful mild weather. Like usually everybody is smiling and kind and considerate at election day. [[underlined in red] What a difference with my former experience of election time in Belgium, [[underlined in red]] where election day was a day of unrest and fight and quarrels. [[underlined in red]] Election day is the safety valve for the pent up [[/underlined in red]]