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Show Oct* 31, JOC My d#ar family5 This is a delightful autumn day. I hope you are ail having just as pleasant weather, I suppose each of you thinks yours is the finest/Clara and Margaret will expaSfcinte on the "beauty of their roods in autumn dress, ana we all know they have reason for doing so»Just what Hester will say I am not sure,but veA^y likely she will find Texas almost as pleasant as Californi and will revel|in the mildness of the climate. Angie will talk of the bracing mountain air, and of their view. There is no question in our minds as to tha many appreciative thing^Jthat the Morgan Hill and Berkeley families Htigfet say of their beautiful California. They will talk of their roses, and. of how tha first rains ore raxing Pine Ridge and the beautiful Berkeley hills ^reen a-gain. But even as I think of all the auturan glory and of the mountains and the rosesj am so glad that I can cone back in my thought to P'ang Ghuang and dfidffeel that my heritage of beautiful things is also a goodly one. The new la*-- dies' house is built so high that from the dining room windows we can look over the wail and see the open country to the east, The crops have all bean gathered and the Koalas ark evergreenspf the little cemeteries,, rise out of ground as brown and bare as if nothing had ever grown there. To .tha right yoc*. see a cloud of dxst , and know that there pea-nut ground is being sifted so that none of the last nuts may be lost. If vie were to go for a walk out thee®-, we would find small fields marked with parallel lines of green.that show where the winter wheat is just coming up. From the front of the hot-.seh.cn the west yen have even a more pleasing out-look. This xa^hf^lace^to .i$a?$F at the sun-sets. Prom tha upper porch we look through tnie^Dranches of onr . - aX»aand across an ope^Jj^Sf where the rao" ant! orange 1 k;. ahim 3 cu..c glows and lakes the brown of the fields and of the high village wnhlftake on a brighten tinge, and fades the yellow wilaowaby eontrast. The traea "that ri,-ie above the village walkju the branches over our heads .make outline pictures on the skyThe glow fades, and a yre.y and purple haze settles over the din trees on ' the horinon, over the naarar village*,over our own little cemetery,and everything is vr^rv still and peacefulsThe evening star has come out, and only a feu silvc-n^kcToudx? and the least pink glow tell where the sun went dxrwn.But I did not intend, to key you out here &a long. I hope you, haven't taken cold* ArX it is supper' tine. Yes it is beautiful her-, I can't help asking myself sometime,a whet beauty: 'tin* Citing will have to offer, xe/uty there Will be , of that I have not the laast doubt. ' Since telling you o,f receiving Lucy*'s and Clover* s latter*,Ona from Jldith x d e n , farg »at*a Note has t omeyuid aho . poital from little Harold, which delighted his aunt Susie very rnudh.I have also received and enjoyed Hesters good letter that was among the letters in my box.I did not find it Kawever, until after I had written her a postal telling that the box '.. k. had con ujt wy.3 r^moat w^Jhcpme letter , Hester, and told quite a number of bits of hewsV^T afigao glad you 'put in some things for the Tuckers. There is 1 still no word, fraa them, and it begins to look as if I might be kept here two or three weeks longer.Onr first hospital assistant was very much in need of a. rest, and Br, Tucker tonic him* with hiauVlth T;l &. ,MMt assistant , away I feel I ought to stay until hr„ T/ gets back* NoV» 2 6 Only time to wish Laey many happy returns of the day. I hope the little present sent some time ago reached you safely. I'm glad.yfargaret pthat Leslie liked his present. Miss Gertrude is bringing the rest of it. I was so glad to get 3-rcur and Bai'tHs letters and to know something about yourself and a** boutLesiie'a family.and to be told what you and k7dith did . I can see the. pretty places you visited. I'm so sorry Mabel has bean sick ,and so sorry Edith didn't see Ruth at ftrinnell. Margaret Burton*s good letter was one ot thejnicsst things in my box.I'm only sorry I didn't Have your address before The next letter may be the children's letter. Hojke you all approve this style of letter,for you will probablv receive several more before any suggeS-tionsjpu mighjr wish to make could take effect. "rS^v 1**c ""? id' ^d^^M 4 I hope you are all well and as hapoy as can be • pith much love to eacKu^^, |