glMl, rippensfols is pleurisy.) I had to stay in bad Satur- 
day arid Sunday, while Fran Schneider einwicfcelt ma -in cold linen 
<ist with something that froze no solid. I thought it was queer 
treatment , ' "but it was what the doctor had directed, and it did 
reduce the fever qnlokly, Ho trained nurse could take 'better 
of me and she would not take a nurse 1 s pay. She has chrial© 
bronchitis herself ana is always coughing. I am having fire 
ia the moznxaentnl store in ay room every night now. rhey 
ttftk* a fire with about two handful s of coal and the porcelain 
store seems to absorb all the heat and "keeps the room fairly 
comfortable all eveaiag. I insisted that she have heat to 
work by, aa well as I at night. I paid for 15000 kronen's' 
wotrh of eai coal (kronen now 7300 to $1), which she nays will 
last ftp laong as they will need heat this spring. Goal cones 
•fro* Bohemia (Cfcoofcoslovafcai they call it) with a cruelly high 
expert tariff. If Sfram g "bought coal herself thoy would go w 
without eating. -She is a most remarkable woman." I aa a paci- 
fist, hut I doubt if could endure so cheerfully as she does 
the hard experience needed to teach people the truth about war. 
She says - she is glad they did not win the war, for if they had 
they would be wanting more war. and mors victories. She thinks 
the rioters in a war are the !! imglilciiich ;f ones. (I thought 
of what I saw in my one day in Paris and agree with her, hut 
I did not interrupt her to say so. ) She says that now there 
is food to be had, that it takes everything to buy sufficient 
food, that when shoes wear out it is a werklich catastrophe, 
but that, nor or thai ess, this is all for the good of her be- 
loved asterreioh, it will make her realise what war is. ■ If 
only people suffer enough she thinks they will be cured of 
ever wanting war again, she told me that during the war her 
