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[left-hand page number] 20 each a curtain tonight - at least they'll have that much additional. January 20, 1922 - Friday Last night I washed out my gray silk stock- ings [stockings] given my by Mrs. Delore; this morning I darned them & then I donned them; they have given valiant service on shipboard and since. This being a short school day, I put in a busy afternoon; loaded my kodak; type wrote the forms for city funds for Miss C - from whom I had a card today saying they would return Monday; - wrote cards to Mary Rettus, Margaret and Anna Behan; a business letter to Cousin Joe Paxton, sending the Ben O. Smith correspon- dence [correspondence]; took a bath; had tea; went to call on Mrs. Grove, the American lady in the neigh- borhood [neighborhood], but unfortunately she was not at home; and was reading "Half the Battle in Burmese" (loaned me by Miss C.) when Mrs. Hogg and her cousin came with cakes left from a tea she gave this afternoon. I invited them to be seated & to my surprise they re- mained [remained] quite awhile; I fear I did most of the talking, but I had a glorious theme - Amer- ica [America]. These are the ladies who had charge of the needlework booth at the Fancy Fair held at Gymkhana Club in December for the benefit of the School for the Deaf, and [at] which about three thousand rupees were [right-hand page number] 21 cleared & added to the building fund. January 21, 1922 - Saturday We had an earthquake for a change this morn- ing [morning] about 3:25 o'clock; I was awakened instantly by what may or may not have been the first and hardest shock, and realizing what it was did not bother to get up; later there came a second one, and I could hear the girls talking down stairs, and such a yelping as there was of these mangy curs that go by the name of dogs out here! Later today Ma Nyein told me what time it was, as I had not looked at my watch. I had intended going to town early, as Mr. Purser of the S.P.G. was going to lecture on phonetics on I cut class, having had no less than three such courses already; but my package from Mrs. Reid's Bible class of the East Portland Baptist Church was delivered, so I had to see it - and once opened there was no getting away from it. There was what had once been a fruit cake, still delicious in its crumbly state, but all the candy, dates and raisins had to be picked out; the latter stemmed; and worst of all, the tissue and silver paper pulled out bit by bit. When I finally got through there were the two largest meat dishes full, and it was break- fast [breakfast] time. I went down into the city afterwards, to DeSouza's for my films & prints; to the press to pay my bill, etc; to the two Chinese shops where I bought two silver & king fisher feather pins at