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December 21, 1922 - Thursday

School will close tomorrow for the Christmas holi-
days [holidays]. I've neglected my diary as I've not been well and
have been so very busy. I shall go to R. to see the M.D.
and D.D.S., do some necessary shopping, and get a
change of scene and atmosphere. I shall stay with
Misses Campbell and Nicholas at the school for the
deaf, Shan Road. Marie (nee Mahony) Ballbach, of
Bethany Baptist Church, Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Penn.
sent half a dozen wonderful boxes from their S.S.;
three contained dolls, by far the most popular ob-
ject [object] with the girls; the others miscellaneous toys and
supplies (such as pencils, colored crayons, combs, toothbrushes, soap, towels,
notebooks, etc.); she had written long before and ask-
ed [asked] what would be most suitable, and I do not
know what we would have done without them; I
am very grateful. Several others sent boxes also;
some were in bad condition, so I had to go to the p.o.
to examine, pay duty, etc., and refused to accept one;
the others, while damaged, had enough that could
be salvaged to pay me to take them. One of the sev-
eral [several] men I had to interview was very helpful; he
saw my Eastern Star pin and told me he, too, was a
Mason; so we had quite a chat. Many of the Grand B.s
are also members; I always wear my pin when traveling

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December 22, 1922 - Friday

After consultation with the teachers we arranged
all the gifts on tables in the assembly hall (so called)
and beginning with the Infant Standard and on
up in order, let the pupils choose their own gifts;
as they had never been permitted to do this before,
it was quite an innovation, and it caused a lot of chatter - but they enjoyed it! We thought it only
fair to put the children from Christian homes
(they are in the minority as the majority are Bud-
dhists [Buddhists]) in the front of the line from each grade
as they filed up; it was interesting to watch them, as
some knew at once what they wanted; some hesi-
tated [hesitated]; some were subject to a good deal of coaching
or suggestions from older brothers or sisters. One
small boy chose a doll; he was urged to change by
several, but he stuck to it; and we found out later
he wanted to give it to a younger sister at home. The
dolls gave out during the choosing of the 7th Stand-
ard [Standard] (corresponding to our 8th Grade) and some of
those big girls cried because they couldn't have one.
(We have no boys over twelve, only in the 2 grades primary,
and middle 2 grades school); many had seen, but never
owned one before. We only have through S. 10, or two
years of comm. high school; college comprises what would

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