5403 Reno Road, Washington, £. 0., 



Dec. 21, 1921. 



Mr. Walter Deane , 



Dear LIr. De ne, 



I brought several of your letters home to ansv;er 

 unof ficailly , hut did not do it. '1 gave you the references for 

 Scirpus acutus. 



LaSt Sunday I put out two loosely crocheted hags 

 containing suet for the bir&s. The cardinals come to "breakfast 

 every morning. I hung one hag just outside the kitchen window, in 

 the lilacs, The cardinal is often there as I get breakfast. I 

 think Miss Brown would find it pretty cold living in the hack yard 

 just now, hut 1 think she might enjoy the hack window. The shrubs 

 are getting so hig now that the "blue jays are taking possession of 

 the yard. I admire their looks more than I do their character. I 

 think they keep other birds away. The juncoes have "been here for 

 some time. 



Yon mentioned the limitation of Arms conference in a 

 latter some time ago. Being a pacifist and ohserving that all the 

 men appointed to the conference were the old type of military 

 minded diplomat, 1 had little confidence in their intention to do 

 anything hut talk. I wrote chain letters and did all the other 

 things that the peace societies I "belong to asked me to, hut I did 

 not think it would do any good, except as politicians are to some 

 extent influenced by public opinion. . .oreover the recruiting 

 posters are still on every corner down town, the recruiting s&ax- 

 sergeants still are conspicuous. The enormous guns that stood on 

 the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street and on some other 

 prominent corners were removed ahout armistice day, hut the recruit- 



