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we had sent immediately, and the other we kept to have altered slightly to better adapt to our needs. 

Yesterday we fixed our front room in Japanese style. We put our davenport and large chair, my old k'ang table (a kind of stool or table with top about 18 by 30 inches, and about 10 inches high), a black sacrifice table (or sideboard with drawers and cupboards), and a high narrow Chinese table in the room. Our three framed prints, the very excellent ones I got in Japan we put on the wall; the Buddha, with a piece of old Japanese brocade and two tall orange candles on the high table; a little brass lantern on the long table, with my two stone lions holding books, and a vivid new piece of Japanese brocade of storks and pine trees on the wall above it; and on the k'ang stool another old brocade and a few magazines. These with a couple ferns, another lamp, and some floor and chair cushions completed the decoration. The room is harmonious,-gray walls, touches of bright color in the brocades, but prevailing blues and soft yellow browns, and everything possible Japanese. It has the appearance of simplicity, livability, and quiet elegance of fine things. 

Today we got our dining room started, and ate our supper off of our new table. 

Dorothy spent a large part of the day with Elanor hunting houses for the girls, and Mears has a job already, and another bidding for her if she wants it. 

Saturday, 29 August 

My work started with a vengeance today, with individual oral English examinations. I took care of 34 in the morning, and Miss Konantz helped me with the balance in the afternoon. Louise came in on the afternoon train, and Dorothy met her and brought her here. With a camp cot in the tiny study we can keep her for a little while. The painting is done, of the front room, little between reception room, and court. Dorothy told the painters to do the court, and they came and asked me if it was all right to do what the woman told them to. I have had much amusement therefrom. Enough for now. A map of our  house will be part of the next issue.