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and now dear Dairy it is all over - and I like it very much. I had a lovely old Salvation Army woman and it is no trouble bathing them at all. I only wish we were on the Wards for all time.After 4. I washed my hair - and had a perfectly terrible time drying it. However I managed to get down to dinner by wearing my hat. Did my hair in "pigtails" - after dinner & Lewies & Scotty & Lawson & I had a canteloupe.
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such a perfectly wonderful Mother. it does me anyway. I guess my children are my patients - but I can sing to them dear dairy - and help make their time here very pleasant. I received a letter from Mother o'Mine and she hasn't been feeling well - You dear dairy I was homesick Saturday I just felt like I had to see my Mother - and she wasn't well at that time. This afternoon I received a letter from Happy and one
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from PaulineLewis & I went for the laundry - and then for a little walk with Hardy. am going to take a bath and go to bed. Dairy ] so good night dear pal. I do hope Mother is feeling better and soon comes to see me.
Wednesday Sept. 20/22
Laugh & be merry, remember better the world with a song Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. Laugh for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span
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Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man -Jns Masefield
Dear Dairy I really like to start you off each morning with some little poem. Breakfast 7:15. Classroom 8 am. Demonstration, Temperature & Pulse, Bandaging. Lunch 12:15 and we have a PM. Summers, Ruttle, Scotty, Lewies and I went to Springbank, Westy came out at 5:30 with a wonderful
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lunch - We took snaps - and one man was there with a whole photographers outfit - and took us. When we asked him to sell us one - he said no they were for the Sunday World. So Dear Dairy - our "fairy faces" may yet graceful the pictorial page of one of Toronto's largest newspapers. What glory for us dear dairy. I was awfully tired and went to bed as soon as I came back here.