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Thursday was occupied with more work on the admissions committee, which kept me until late in the day. Just before supper Dorothy and I went for a walk, bought some silk for window curtains in our front room, and decided how we would decorate them to fit them in with our Japanese furnishings. After supper I used some of the silk to make four new panels for one of our lamps, with Japanese figures cut out from some fine small reproductions of old prints I got in Japan last year. We are going to have some house when we get it fixed.

Friday, 4 September

While I went up to the Y.S.C.S. this morning, and also stopped at an engravers to have some wood blocks cut for the decoration of our new curtains, Dorothy went to the post office and got two packages, wedding gifts from a friend of hers and from Marian Allen in Glen Ellyn, that had followed us to Nanking, to Hangchou, to Kuling and back to Peking. They contained ^[[insertion]] respectively [[/insertion]] a glass bowl, and a beautiful set of linen for our table, and neither was any the worse for its journey. The linen we rejoiced in, but the bowl had cost $15 gold and -

Late in the afternoon we went up to Tung An Shih Ch'ang, and wandering through it found a pair of beautiful blue tea jars (sometimes called ginger jars) with tops, pieces of furniture I have long been wanting. Every well-regulated Chinese bride is supposed to carry a pair of tea jars to her new home. I told Dorothy I would not marry her if she did not bring me a pair of good jars too. We have looked for them, but could not find any that were distinctive of beautiful enough at a cheap price. These I bargained for and we got them at a good rate. They now grace the end of my long table in may study, and they are quite effective. With our tea jars in hand we then went to the Muhammadan mutton restaurant, had a full meal for sixty cents, and wandered back again toward the Peking Pavilion, where we stopped to see the movie "The Bright Shawl" a rather good play, well-photographed.