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tud© toward the church — her© is an instance. In making change for 
3 tamp a or something she had got for 21© I can socio 1 and 2 krone 
notes. You can't get anything for lees than 100 'kronen; 1 asked 
what they did with 1 krone notes. ''Kir die Xirche," she said,with- 
oat a sail® lantil I laughed. April £5.—;?® w«it to the whole 
series of operas on the theme ©f the libeling ring , the nagic ring 
that conferred all might (dor Slacht) on its possessor together wffft 
the ours© that he can never love and must die. I told you of the 
prelti.de "Rhine sold." Shea follows Die Walk-are, Siegfried, and Got® 
teraaaaeruns, in the last of which Brmnahilde removos the curse "by 
restoring the ring t© the Rhine and by liar death. It xms not like 
e*di»*#y epera, it is drama and uneic coiibinad-- the rsoet wenAerf&l 
thing I awr heard*-"*-- — -I hop# to Baa Hersog in Ktinich a»d learn 
how we can get Mi BeliYisn grasses* It eeeni lite le&Tlxtg liome te 
pa ok mp to lta?i here— and 1 shall probably itflf sat Jrau SaMieidtr 
again. She wants me to reiiemhor that everything is well with TTien, 
that they are going to come out all right. I never sat? such gallant 
courage. It seems to he ooramon, too. Everyone is so neat and clean 
that they do not give the laprtssioa of poverty. She dreadfully ?#©rn 
shone are highly polished — evidently shoe hlacMns is a necessity. 
1 have learned to Iceep my shoes blacked— they put me to sh&as, I 
had 9mm Schneider make me some clothins of linen and two garments 
for Mrs. Winston and her sister. 1 i'rau S would not take any pay for 
the things , she wanted to do this for the Danen who had sent bo mush 
for the children of Vienna. I had a hard tine getting her to take a 
little farewell gift* I did up some more American dollars iailittl© 
envelopes for the herbarium people, including poor -Dr. Keiosler. I 
did not give any to Dr. Zahlbrmckner , he does not seen so hard up as 
the others— and I have all the grasses now! 2ho packages of 
plants, including Handel-Maasetti's, hooks, and fragments in envel- 
opes will -o to you through the* -Siaithsonlan" -jsohange. i put* my -hlanket 
