Did you know Miss Sandhouso, who used to be upstairs with the 
Agriculture entomologists? I think she was moved over to Agriculture 
when a bunch of then went over there. I used to see her in my neighbor- 
hood a lot, and only learned the other day that she had lived in the 
same house I do. What shocked me, though, was to hear that she had 
recently died of <Sanoer. I hadn’t missed seeing her around. I heard that 
she had* been gone since summer. She went home teaa&x to flolorado for va- 
cation and learned while she was there that she had cancer. She came back 
here and wound up her affairs and returned homo. Within three weeks 
ate was dead. She was the girl who stammered a little. She used to come 
down here sometimes to look at our books or talk to Er. Shoemaker. Had 
straight brownish hair, end blue eyes, a little taller than I and very 
thin. 
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Did I tell you that last two stories I heard » 
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When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps* when h® says perhaps, 
he means maybe; if he says no, he’s no diplomat. When a lady says no, she 
means perhaps* when she.-. says perhaps, she moans yes* if she says yes, she’s 
no ladd. i\«J . 
It’s nice to be nice— just nice enough* 
fain’t nioe to be too nioe* tain’t nice enough. 
Mr, Shoemaker had a letter from Ellis this morning. Ellis has 
boon up at Bay Shore, Long Island, training to be an instructor in flying 
I think. - Ho is of draft age, you know, and ho hopes to be able to 
do flying instruction work. He is leaving L* I. Monday, and will be here 
until Wednesday. He wrote asking fes. Shoemaker .to have "ham sand-witches” 
with him Monday afternoon and 'Tuesday. ■ 
I did something to my foot a few days ago, I don’t know what. 
It got more and more sore, until I could hardly walk on it and I was 
topping around like a kangaroo. I called Group Health finally, and they 
tod Dr. Halstead talk to me. He didn’t seem to be nearly as much concerned 
as I was i The trouble seems to be in the metatarsal arch, and he said I 
might have strained it stepping off a curb or stepping on a stone without 
1 mowing at the time when I did It, Be told mo to keep off it as muoh as 
possible, keep it up whenever I can, keep it warn with the electric pad, 
and rub it with that imydol unction that you got for no -at GroupoIIoalth. 
He said if it isn’t better in a few days he will x-ray it, but he doesn’t 
think anything serious is wrong. I hunted up Miss Rathbun’s little foot- 
stool, and here I sit wife my foot on it, while I type away at your diary 
and other thin-s. When I want anything , I yell and make those guys from 
the other room come to me instead of going to them— and am I having funj 
At home I lie on the bed wife rry foot up on two pillows and the electric 
pad over it. It seems considerably better this morning, so I guess 1 
won’t get away with murder much longer. 
I don’t know how this sheet got so smeared. I put on a now 
ribbon, I guess that’s the trouble. 
