Berta is a district physiolaa for mothers and children. Eh® Aaer- 
isan Red Gross : sayB half liar salary, which is ahout QlB.in itoerican 
W02367/ — that is, the entire salary. She was § mxQ%w\ in the army " 
on the Sastern feent and later in the typhus region in what is now 
Jm^oslaTia. Yhey _ shewed me seme snap shots of her. She its very 
tall ana slender — "fcirehhar laager" her mother said, and rery ..fine- 
looking, Cno picture showed her in hospital looMng on with a 
bread smile at seme handagsd men playing orrds. The prettiest. is 
eae, tnfcen hefsre the war in color (Brof. Hkekel Be ens to have done 
sorts of things in photography) shews her in the Amstri 
turns, a blue sleeveless , lew cut tight "bodice and Straight sldtrt, 
with a white sader "bodice, and a red apron.. Fran Schneider wore 
the same Baster after we returned from the Wienerwald. The colored 
phote is one of those transparencies, you hold up to the light. The 
Issksls spofee ®f their great disappointment when she was not sent to 
J a *a as they expected. had passed the examination- for govern- 
ment physician for Java, and was appointed subject to physical ex- 
amination. She went to the Baa? for that and there they found one 
eardrum was defective , though she hears perfectly well with the 
other ear, and is only slightly deaf in that one. Later they had 
seraa littla ho'm of har bain£ sant to Egypt # I did not imdaretr.M 
if tfcis if mder the English goTornmtnt — it itaiild ha itnlikaly that an 
Austrian wtraan watdd fit it in that mm* f ihe Jets $♦! was far tha 
D&toh fOTarniBtut* fram H&ckel if Mich mora glvan to building air 
o&eties than is har Mann. She .said gha wish ad that Barta oauld gf t# 
Mtxioa ar samth Amari'oa — and than in a few minmtas eha was talking 
ahamt oallaoting; and drying spacimans thara # Pr^f # lao&al smiled 
and said MiBtthing ahamt Betty liltaa ft draam. Sha is ntt tha typ- 
ical Sermsn hsmgfram, like * ; r&ia ;fefefe#M#r, sha said aha wamld rathtr 
dry plants than wash diah#e* 1 etrmiaa sha has driad slants f#r 
many yaars and has tnly lately taken to wasMtii? mSm* & 
