25 FEBRUARY 55 DAYS PAST Tuesday 310 DAYS TO COME Have spent all day on book work. Dr and I went to see the picture Bitter Sweet Very fine one of the best we have ever seen. Had a nice letter from Mary saying she & Taylor had dinner with Thair & Cloteel. She seems very happy. She Dr & I still have colds so retire early. ERYSIPELAS- CABALISTIC CHARM An Irish wisewomans charm against the rose, a common expression for erysipelas, consisted in putting flour on the patients nose and faintly scratching a cross on it with a pen knife. The efficacy of this charm, and others of a similar nature, was attributed almost entirely to a muttering of unintelligible, cabalistic phrases. Wednesday 56 DAYS PAST FEBRUARY 26 309 DAYS TO COME A most beautiful day snow only on the Mts. This afternoon I spent at Mrs Effie Spencers in Company with nine other guests after a delicious lunch we who dident play cards did Red Cross hand work. Mrs spencer is a remarkable women Is past 80 yr & her hobby (one of them is buying old homes & building them over. Present was Mrs Harmon Mrs. Parmerly. Mrs Carver, Mrs Truman and etc. I called to see Martah Cooley and after one or two others arrived home late The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature as, to his disillusion, many a lawgiver has discovered- ALLBUTT WARNERS Junior Rich