ha© no need of thorn), I named generioally some grasses he collected 
in Kaoedonia during the war. He is a young fellow, fortunately, not 
shot up any. One seas crippled student e coming and going, an 2 As in 
"Vienna they seem to specialise on nan with terribly scarred facts for 
street car conductors. Shey sag-set the result of liquid fir® or 
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perhaps the torches the Allied troops used in "cleaning out the 
trenches," as I heard Sapsy describe it at the Geographic. -I am 
Stadias hack PeOandollc and le sagas , having taken down what 1 need 
from them, I am also sending the made up table linen that happened 
to he at the "bottom of the trunk and not seen hy the customs officers 
the time they had such a fit oyer the linen good®, I am liho soldiers 
in a rout, getting rid of ererythiag that makes weight. What' Surope 
need® to make trarel comfortable is a supply of colored porters. It 
nearly pulls my arms out to handle my beggars. Those manuscript 
lists and hooks arc so hoary. 'Saturday morning 1 waiting to take my 
train, She ticket seller hero was very ciwil and spoke slowly and re- 
peated to msics sure 1 under stooa. 1 ha to a through ticket to Plorence 
and my trunk insurod through, Por the sir days at the pension, with 
a comfortable bed (and feather-bed corer ) , running water in my room 
(not hot water, 1 guess there isn't such a thing, in the country), 
oreakfast and evening meal, I paid about 05.—. Florence t . May?.. 
Hotel Pioroaoe ot Washington, whors the attendant can speak iSugLish. 
I arri red at 6:30 this morning, am washed and waiting as patiently as 
possible for breakfast at 0. Srareling in 3uxope is rich in experien- 
cas, i sn * t it? I am always surprised when 1 finally. arri re all right. 
It seems shoer luck. Short were two changes of cars that 1 knew noth- 
ing of till the last minute. Ho one tells you which way to go. I got 
off on the aids toward the station but the Plorence train was on a $#- 
track en the other side of the train I had been on. (I hadn't any It- 
alian money, so I couldn't got a porter) Shore was no way to get acros s 
