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In the watershed between the Rhine and the Danube the mountains are 
rounded and densely wooded — it s- nested western Maryland , along tfe© 
B, & 0. 1 get a "breakfast of bread and coffee on the train this 
morning, paying for it in French money. Shis evening I sot dinner • 
( in Austria) and the "bill was between 4 and 5 thousand teronen. I was 
scared, hut began to got out American money. . The wait or took on© dol' 
and brought a® back a lot of paper money. 1 was so relieved I gave h: 
a hundred kronen. Whon 1 tried to figure out the problem afterward 
I was chagrined to find X had tipped his less than a cent J As near 
as I can sake out my dinner was about 60 or 70 cents, and sono 10 
cents of that was for water. —At the Schneider's, Thursday. 
The train was over two hours late in reaching Wien. There was no one 
at the station, with an American flag, so I concluded that i?rau Scnnei* 
der, learning the' train was late, had gone hone like a sensible woman, 
1 took a oab to a hotel, cold as Greenland, of course, and saw mj 
first evidence of poverty, the clean sheets were a uass of patches anc 
darns. You do not see poverty on first-class trains. The fat- 
■faced men were drinking and smoking as they do everywhere. I got my 
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trunk in the morning (there was no trouble about exaaing it. I re- 
■ pcated.ny "Ioh gehe nach WienV etc.? I took a taxi to Frau Schneider' 
I never had so hearty a welcome in mj life. The . dienst-nichen gave 
a Joyous •O.util when I said I was Fran Chase, and she piured forth a 
volume of German fro® which I gathered that they thought something 
had gone a»iss. The. telegram I wrote in Bnglish had b^en put into 
German and the p. a. left off, also March 2E. I dated the telegram 
March 21, so that is the date they thought I was to arrive., though it 
case on the 22nd. Srau Schneider went to the station (as if I would 
be left there until called for) and was apparently very anxious to 
know what had becorae of -She is ever so kind and nice, lou would 
lanpch to hear the double-barrelled lecture I got (while I was having 
