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across a long table when two men came up, the on© speaking queer Snglish 
evidently intending to aeat the other at the table. I hastily gathered 
myself in to less space and glancing up saw the visitor was Dr. Perley 
Spalditg. He did not recognize me. After the ^elgian had gone I said 
how d' do, and he nearly fell over. I asked how he was getting on with 
understanding French. He said he couldn't understand it at all and 
couldn't make himself understood; and he went on to say he found he 
couldn't even understand English in England I That experience is still 
ahead of me. He is after the chestnut disease. One of the girls in 
the herbarium brought him the register to sign. His Washington, D.G. 
U.S.A. followed mine, and the girl made some amused comment to me, I 
sailed as if I understood. 230 ? ou ^©member the garden in front of 
the herbarium building? Isn't it beautiful? I liked the statuary 
(mostly I don * t ) , especially one large bronze of a woman carrying a 
heavy load. Except that glorious Amazon in the Tier gar ten in BBBlin 
I have seen none I like so much. There is a lovely little goose girl 
fbrouse ) on a little comer park in Dahlem that was charming. 
Waiking through the lovely garden after work on my way to the hotel 
I had a Yiaion* one eYtsing* of what It must have loom during the war 
— arrogant officers strutting around as if they owned the place and 
the contemptuous Belgians forsaking their lovely garden to avoid 
meeting them. It is full of baby carriages now — nothing to indicate 
what it has been through. I loitered along some of the shop windows 
with displays of the lovliest lace, but I did not buy a thing . 
off for %'zas. Paris. Tuesday night. I found SLise a very lov 
able child and her mother and grandmother very fine people. Things 
are exceedingly primitive — cooking is d6ne in a big fireplace. It is 
picturesque, but a great lot of work and wasted time. I went down 
with Elise's education chiefly in mind, but a few minutes after see- 
ing her I concluded that a dentist was more important than education 
