ing posters remain. Thousands of dollars were spent on rr decora- 

 tions" that would "better fit a cheap amusement park. The armis- 

 tice day programme seemed to me to he designed to work on people's 

 emotions and inhihit the working of their "brains. Hughes' opening 

 speech was, therefore, a great surprise and joy to me. But the 

 conference seems unahle to rise ahove the men who compose it — mil- 

 itarists all. The idea of limitation of armaments does not appeal 

 to me, anyway. 1'hey want to make war cheaper and more efficient. 

 It is only the waste of money involved in war that concerss them-- 

 it is the waste of life — and that the "best life in the country- -that 

 concerns me. Llayhe you will he as shocked at my heing a pacifist 

 as you were at my heing a "suffragette 1 .' So many of my old com- 

 rade are working for peace now, that I guess we "militants" are 

 mostly pacifists, paradoxical as it may sound. 



le are expecting rof. Hitchcock every day now. Three 

 mail sacks full of grasses came today from him. He wrote that he 

 hoped to attend the Toronto meeting of the A. A. L. 3. Are 3-ou 

 going? 



I read of the ice storm that did so much damage to the 

 trees of Hew England. Te are having a gale here tonight. 



xhonk you very much for the kindly card that eame today. 

 Prof. Hitchcock's is rim his desk, awaiting him. A third grandchild, 

 a girl, also awaits him. 



"ith very "best wishes for your health and for a happy 



Christmas , 



Tours very sincerely, 



