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tation are taught by externadas. everybody seemed eager 

 for more suggestions; their methods had been patterned 

 after those of the United States. 



From the infirmary they went back to the dining room, 

 -where the girls were eating; all stood until someone said 

 "sientense 11 . First came plates of hot thick soup, then 

 plates with mixed vegetables, potato chips , etc. The first 

 kitchen had a long trough sink; huge kettles of food stood 

 on the floor, and an old woman was working at one. The 

 second kitchen had a table and an enormous stove with some 

 very large pans and one ordinary size tea kettle; both were 

 well lighted with large windows . The dining room had about 

 a dozen tables, twelve girls at a table* A few girls were 

 in black, but most wore dark grtcr with blue collars: there 

 were slight differences in the cut of the collars and per- 

 haps in the material . Hair arrangements were individual . 



Next they went upstairs , past a long lavatory in a hall, 

 with many brand new hand bowls , and into a large room with 

 many beds in rows . A few small tables had enamelware bowl 

 and pitcher sets ( clothes were kept in roper la) . Through 

 a large light rather empty store room with one or two chairs 

 and a rack of rolled maps, they came to the apartment of the 

 Directora. The salon had gilt furniture; on a center table 

 was a large old album with photographs of the presidents of 

 Colombia, many presidents of the departament os , public men, 

 Sarah Bernhardt, Jorge Isaacs, and a few European views. 

 Don Guillermo wrote names on some photographs waiting to be 

 identified. In an ante-room was a dark wood straight chair; 

 the back and seat seemed to be dark leather, the back much 

 worn but showed parts of the seal of Colombia; the chair was 

 Bolivar's at the Quinta* Some of the furnishings belonged 

 to the Directora 's uncle, who when to Europe in the l8?0's 

 and brought back complete furnishings, glass, silver, and 

 all accessories, for a twelve-room house; they came by mule 

 back up to Bogotd and then to a more inaccessible place in 

 Santander. 



I quit my afternoon at the Institute at !u3G and went to 

 Avianca to take up the tickets for Clara and myself. Reached 

 Casa G6mez at six and found Clara not yet back from tea at 

 Mrs. McKibbens. Dona Silvia had gone with her. Mrs IicKihben 

 had a good warm grate fire ! There was a Visquez over the 

 fire-place, a picture of San Agostln in a dark white robe 

 against a dark background, in a carved old-gold-plus-brick- 

 red frame* There were saints in gilded wood, San Pedro and 

 San Agostln with nino (St. Augustine finds the lost) . Up- 

 stairs, were a piano more than a century old, a high secre- 

 tary desk made out of an old rosewood piano, a watercolor of 

 the Quinta by Valencia Chaves , and some large handsomely 

 bound 18th century books from Spain and Colombia. 



As they were having tea before the fire, Mr McKibben 



