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August 25th., 1907, Sunday.

I arrived from Chicago late
last night and went to the hotel.
This morning I took possession
of my room at the hall, which I
engaged before going East last
summer. All my friends had roommates
and so I engaged a single
room rather than run the risk of
having an undesirable fellow for
a "wife."

The room looked rather cheerless
at first, with an iron bed
in one corner, a bureau in another,
the study-table standing forbiddingly
in the center of the
room, and the dressing table
against the wall. Now an Indian
blanket on the bed, some photo-