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Seems rather empty. Lunch table d'hote $3.50, badly prepared and clumsily served. Fat, clumsy looking women most part middle age, lounging around chairs, dressed 30 and fourty years [[strikethrough]] above [[/strikethrough]] below their age makes them look still more insipid and ridiculous. Their husbands looking just as middle West seem as bored as their wives but they are sunburnt, dividing their time between [[strikethrough]] go [/strikethrough]] golf and fishing. Mr. So and So, the biggest Soup manufacturer in the U.S. Mr. Hire's - the big Root Beer King etc. etc. Middle-West Mediocrity. People whose efforts have all been directed exclusively in making money and do not know what to do with themselves as soon as they leave business - Monotony, mediocrity
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Middle western atmosphere and conversation. I suppose they rate a hotel by the amount of money it costs then to live in it and be able to patronize some clumsy lazy, incompetent nigger head [[strikethrough]] wat [[/strikethrough]] waiter. The futility of merely possessing money!
March 9. Chartered Ketch Clara Lee for the day "Capt." Gould inspires little confidence as a sailor. His boat is all right but poorly kept and his rigging is slipshod and needs overhauling. So do many things inside his boat. Had a good breeze and returned by evening, but my head, face and arms are much sunburnt.
March 10. Sunburn kept me awake most of night and this morning my face is swollen and painful