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around th© Max Rsiat books. It will pro t tot thtm and rid w$ of 
the weight of it. I bought i down comforter hero because it was 
m much cheaper than to Amerioa , ami I hare he on so frosen hort 
my mind runs to getting warm things. I oaa't carry it with mo, 
bo I en ©ailing it to you, . B.ease pay tho tariff and charge to 
my account. — I hart "bought 200 little envelopes for fragments, 
this coats in subsistence, like tvtrything else. Atttrsto, 
April 29.— Prof, and Mrs. Haokol bid rae sand you the Ir thanks 
for the $10 and their grtetiaga. Ho will writ® to you himself. 
He was at YolldLtaarkt to mott a®, though I had written him that 
I ootid easily go to Atttrsto alone. I recognised him because 
th® tall straight, fine looking man caught, ray attention for a 
moment. I was just thinking that man looks as if he belonged 
in Idaho when he came toward me and I saw tho resemblance to 
his picture. With weather beaten fact, hair longer than corf ion, 
a slouch hat, thieh graj: mustache, tall and Tory straight, he 
looked lllce my youthfal idea of a westerner. He is thin and 
hollow -cheeked, but he carries Ms head in the air in a way that 
makes en® rejoice in th® spirit of the man. Fran Haokel was at 
Attersee. Their house is about half a mil© distant. It was 
raining, of course. I am beginning to doubt if there is a warm 
dry spot in Suropt. Sna is lovely to me, they both are. She was 
delighted with th® arch supports, the soap, medicine and other 
things. ' I had filled my Wiener Tasohe (a ltather market bag I 
bought in Vienna) with oranges, the space left, I moan. Frau H 
is rather lame, partly from fallen arches and partly the result 
of boring broken one leg in twi places some years ago. It pains 
badly in oold or wot weather (which must be all the time, I 
should thinlr. ) Prof. Eaokel is to hare an operation this summer. 
Pr, Eerta (the daughter) says .it is imperative. There has been 
