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of the ?hilippi list. I am to oopy the list and return it, if 
can eorapare with mr list -prepared from the plants when borrowed 
by Piper. fhis mernins it is clear and the mountains are 
beautiful. In my room, with the sun en my "back, two woolen 
sweat era and a wo el scarf on, 1 am less frozen than usual, xhe 
pleurisy has been pretty painful, and has made it hard to sloop. 
•v J& (ft: 
— -^-^5*10 p # b« SaljBl&iorg* — I eujoyad my visit to the Haeltels so 
much, and they said they did. They, are such a splendid tare 
pair, there isn't a hit of whinin.f. I'h© A^strians are certainly 
good losers, frau Haefcel agrees with my .pacifist ideas — .Prof S 
did not disagree, hut I sraiiae that if he is a pacifist now, 
he is a recent convert, poor man. I doubt if he thinks maoh of 
th© republic, either. When they told m® that there is a W$ 
tax on anything sold he said, "Wir hah en k*ta# freiheit motel" 
I themsht it might he worse if they still had a royal family 
ana their hangers-on t© support, hat I did not say so. 1 think 
th® ©16:, picturesque teatria wt« very dear to Prof. Baokel. 8© 
many of the photographs he showed me are of peasant farmyards, . 
shops, and churchyards, besides wild places in the fyrol and 
Salzburg region, Fsmu Schneider , who despised royalty, looks 
forward hopofwlly to something better, now they are rid of 
their kite* but to Prof, HaoJwil I think it is utter tragedy— 
his co-rage is that of ddnpair. They must he nearly destitute 
—they did. not tall: poverty, hut ft few facts came eut in their 
conversation-- -besides what X see. fhey had invested the 
savings of their lifetime s© as to yield them 4000 kronen a 
year, nearly $1000 before the war. They still set the 4000 
kronen— and I got 7500 Itroren for $1 the last time I changed 
money in Vienna , so their year 1 ® inceme is a little ever 50 
cents. %s professor's pension amounts to abeat §2 a month. 
