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142 The [[underlined]]whole place quieter[[\underlined]] than [[underlined]]the Yacht shelters of Nice[[\underlined]] or [[underlined]]Cannes.[[\underlined]] Left for Paris with 4 P.M train. Passengers mostly Americans. [[underlined]]An American woman with rasping, monotonous, nasal voice keeps talking unceasingly to her patient husband.[[\underlined]] What I [[underlined]]cannot understand[[\underlined]] is [[underlined]]why some women[[\underlined]] who [[underlined]]spend most of their leisure time looking at their hand mirror[[\underlined]] and [[underlined]]painting their lips and face[[\underlined]] and [[underlined]]buying showy expensive clothes are so limited[[\underlined]] in [[underlined]]intelligence[[\underlined]] and [[underlined]]imagination[[\underlined]] that all their strenuous efforts to appear attractive [[underlined]]are killed off[[\underlined]] by a [[underlined]]rasping, unpleasant voice[[\underlined]] and [[underlined]]pronunciation[[\underlined]] or slovenly, illiterate use of English, and a [[underlined]]cheerless countenance.[[\underlined]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 143 [[underlined]]Oct 12.[[\underlined]] Arrived Paris at 10.A.M. Rush to Steamer office then to Bank. Left Gare St. Lazare 3 P.M. [[underlined]]Paris[[\underlined]] is a [[underlined]]noisy crowded city like most large cities. If the average Parisian waiter or man in the street ever was polite, they certainly have lost the habit of it.[[\underlined]] Feel tired and ill. Bad cold and sore throat. My left ear is half deaf and has a ringing noise. [[underlined]]Glad I am returning home.[[\underlined]] At Havre same formalities, [[underlined]]baggage leaving to be inspected,[[\underlined]] passports, then declaration that one [[underlined]]does not take money out of France[[\underlined]] etc. My [[underlined]]room[[\underlined]] in steamer is [[underlined]]large but not cheerful[[\underlined]] and is rather awkwardly arranged. [[underlined]]Oct 13.[[\underlined]] The [[underlined]]social rooms[[\underlined]] of the SS. [[underlined]]Isle de France[[\underlined]] have been [[underlined]]given over to the[[\underlined]]