to be American citizens, I learn. I judge that their naturalisation 
is very recent. Isn't it shocking that th® U. S. Shipping Board 
should trust th© lives of American citizens to these terrible f Hune.' 
—on a ship that we swiped froet th® Germans, too. At ay table 
are two Geraan women. I said rt Guten Morgan/' and we spoke Q era en 
together until one of then shot off a genuine German sentence two 
yards long. It punctured my Muff and it iissolved like a soap bubble 
It is good practice for me. One is an interesting wizzled up old 
Jewess with a wonderful appetite. She is always eating when I arrive 
and I always 'entschulden Sie aieh ?? when I leave her, still eating. 
Her son is a great banker in Hew "York, she tells use. The cooking is 
perfect. If I can stand it I shall fill up to my Unit the last day 
or two so that 1 can get along on little when I get to Vienna. 
As usual when I travel' I an fleeing from pillar to post to get away 
froa tobacco smoke. I have not taken a deck chair, for I know soma 
one would be sure to smoke t© windward of ue. .1 wish sona on® would 
invent a siaoke consumer for the devotees of tobacco. This is th® 
first time I have had to run away froa women smokers. I am before 
the open door now, to windward of three such, one a Bother and daugh- 
ter who looks about sixteen, I an disgusted. One of ny 
eabin-aates is a costume designer. theatrical shows. She isn't at all 
what ay preconceived idea of such a. person would be. She is as com- 
pletely clothed as her choruses are incoraplet ly. She is interesting 
and kindly and witty. She was born in Vienna, catae to, America as a 
child and has oros. ®d 27 tines. She said I could practice German on 
her, so I do. She says I will not understand the Viennese (or Wiener 
dialect. The other on® of us three in thiscabln is on® of Hub ens' 
women, stepped out of one of his pictures — with not muchnnre on when 
she is dressed for dinner. She has gorgeous coloring {not put on J 
but about as such brains as any of Rubens * women must have had. She 
