and has a good place to pat a small rectangular one. A little higher 
than coffee table height would he nice. 
Jane is going to have her appendix out Monday morning. She 
thinks she is going to get up and gallop away from the hospital after 
about three days, and I have been more or less pleading with her to 
he sensible and take care of herself. I don’t think her mother has 
much sense, either, about making her take care of herself. Edwin is 
getting along all ri^t and can’t wait to drive a car again. They 
all seem so helpless. Jane says, "I don’t know what we can do with him. 
We can’t keep him tax from driving." I said what I’d do fast enough, if 
everything else failed, would he to report him to the police and tell 
them to pick him up. He’s not supposed to drive for three years after 
the loss of an eye, until he gets used to the use of only one eye. 
The other day one of my friends from Detroit was in town 
for one day on the way back after a drive to the Smokies, She heid with 
her a young English woman whose husband is connected with a tractor 
firm in London which is associated with Ford. He has been sent over 
here for a few months to do some work at the Ford plant in Dearborn. 
I asked the girl how long she would be here and she said, "We expect 
to go home in June if the war doesn’t call us back sooner." It seemed 
terrible the casual way in which she said it. She says they are really 
all set for war over there. 
Sincerely 
I’m not sending you the return envelope for Civil Service 
Commission, in order to save postage. The envelope has the initials 
A.J.S. in the lower left hand corner. You had better put them on the 
envelope you use, and address it to the Application Division, Civil 
Service Commission. 
On Thursday Miss Bathbun told Mr. Shoemaker twice that she 
wasn’t coming down any more. She said, "You know, I am getting very 
old, and I get so tired." Yesterday morning Seward called me up all 
in a stew and wanted to know what happened down here the day before. 
I said nothing except that her back seemed to hurt her. He said, yes, 
she had wrenched it, but that wasn't what he meant. She had told him 
she wasn’t coming back any more and said some one told her she'd better 
not come down here ^o much, I told him no one in this office ever said 
such a thing. He said that he really thought no one said it, that it 
was just a notion she got. He thou^t she might forget it, and continue 
to come, but she hasn't been back since. He said, "You know, it will 
he dreadful for her at home alone." He makes me so mad! He always seems 
to be so concerned over the trouble it% going to he to him . Of course, 
if she stays home, they'll have^to go ove^the^ of'^enar and kee^ an eye 
