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mo come and see me in the Gym. I "skin the cat", hang suspended from
bee my toes, almost commit suicide every morning in trying to vault
we a horse, do the broad, high, low, and any other kind of a jump that
Pu was ever invented, and then I also can march like a soldier. But
dai when I give orders "by the right flank." "squads left into line,"
wo "down the center by fours" etc., I have the class trying to scale the
of walls, walk on the piano, and through the apparatus, I hope some
time to be able to have them march properly on the floor.
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The place where I live is six stories high, we also have an elevator
to and a furnace. I t is a "Center" for rich and poor alike. Two very
thj fashionable clubs have club rooms. We have a church and a branch
thi library and offices for a paper that is edited here, a gymnasium, sew-
str ing room, kindergarten, cooking room, Browning room, Emerson
be room, rooms named for all the members of Lincoln's family, Bible
study rooms, Sunday school rooms, queer little rest rooms, bedrooms
el< on one floor (5th) also a dining room; a flat where Dr. Jinkin Lloyd
an Jones lives (pastor of the church and a man of note here in Chicago).
pa This flat is on our floor, I didn't know it was here until I ' d been
lif here a week. Now I shall not be surprised at any room I run into.
ill Then there are assembly rooms, really, my dear, I ' m getting tired
re of writing "rooms" but there are more, only I ' m not going to men-
m tion them.
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hi Last week the social worker here said there were 7000 people in
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the "Center" for doings of some sort. So you can see what an
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st institution it is.
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is Last week I had dinner at the Chicago Commons—I've often had
a-
v, lunch—but the workers are not all there—dinner brings them.
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There were, I believe forty. I t is a wonderful atmosphere to be in.

This is next in importance to H u l l House, of the Settlements. I

Am expecting to have something over there next year.

My story work is a joy, but I shall not go into detail. I hope I

have not worn you out. My love to the girls,

ISA.