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    "ocrText": "11.00\n20\nSenator. Long dresses. You see the panel of eligible women for such parties\nis smalix, so I always get there and usually get the seat of honor. It's fun,\nalso an effort when you're tired - as I am bentght today.\nMy German maid and I have been conversing. When there is no one else\naround I am uminhibited and thankful for my year's German with Miss M.P.W.\n(It has stood me in good stead in ability to use the books. First I asked\nthe maid for matches (sign language). Then she came in to borrow a darning\nneedle (that one I was proud to understand), Then she told me (I think)\nthat all the workmen in the hotel took alli they could lay their hands on for\ntheir own houses. That was what happened to a light that was ripped out of\nmy vestibule. And she has to keep a sharp eye on all her brooms, etc. The\none German I really like - and I give her candy (rather stingily and soap\nfrom time to time.\nI am on the track - maybe - of buying a fur coat. Seems the fur trade\nhas moved from Leipzig. I can pay partly in cigarettes: I am told it is all\nperfectly legal. We shall see.\nThe Army runs a vast socialist organization. You go to the PX with a\nration card and buy what they have, not what you want. Never the same brand\nof toothpaste, but that keeps you from getting into a rut. You should see the\nRussians go hos wild buying toothpaste and soap and candy and just everything.\nAlso the French - who hold up the line being very careful and\nwhat they buy.\nMedicine they give you, including vitamin tablets. I, lost m y glasses case\nTo APCHIVES \"INATIONAL\nAND\nand sure enough I got in touch with the eye clinic at the hospital and they\ngave me one.\nI suppose actually the number of civilians over here is relatively emell\nso small that it's easier to give medicine etc. thmu to do bookkeeping. And\nit's certainly to everyone's interest for everyone to be healthy. It's social-\nized medicine, but of course you get any old doctor. Don't be alarmed - I\nhave been to the dispensary only twice - once in London when my ear bubbled\nand the doctor said it was eczema. Here I had a sore throat which the doctor\nsaid was sinuses and gave me nose drops. Both eczema and sore throat\ncleared up.\nThere appear to be several hospitals here. The one I have visited peo-\nple in ii6th General - is a German Army hospital, fine, big buildings - only\none of which got hit. They say they have a large psychiatrio ward. One of our\nstenographers is there. So far, I believe, she is our only nasualty along thos\nlines.\nI am sorry this is a dull letter - but I have done nothing but work. I\nwish while the weather was pleasant, I had had a chance to take more trips.\nI can't have any idea how long I'll be here - 80 much depends. I have\nJanuary in mind for pulling out. Will send a check for Christmas. In fact\nI enclose it - for Marcia, you and Daddy, and Nanny. I am bothered thinking\nabout furnace and hope youfre not cold or burning too much oil and hope it\nright to wait till next spring - if not - go ahead now.\nwas\nLots and lots of love, Titter."
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