Channing. And Minnie is the only good
alto we have! There are times when I am so exasperated that I feel
tempted to wash my hands of the whole affair; but after I dance round my
room a few times in sheer rage I cool down and have another whack at it.
Just at present I am racked with worry for fear the Isaac Reeses are
taking whooping-cough. They have all got a dreadful cold and there are
five of them who have important parts in the programme and if they go
and develop whooping-cough what shall I do? Dick Reese's violin solo is
to be one of our titbits and Kit Reese is in every tableau and the three
small girls have the cutest flag-drill. I've been toiling for weeks to
train them in it, and now it seems likely that all my trouble will go
for nothing.
"Jims cut his first tooth today. I am very glad, for he is nearly nine
months old and Mary Vance has been insinuating that he is awfully
backward about cutting his teeth. He has begun to creep but doesn't
crawl as most babies do. He trots about on all fours and carries things
in his mouth like a little dog. Nobody can say he isn't up to schedule
time in the matter of creeping anyway--away ahead of it indeed, since
ten months is Morgan's average for creeping. He is so cute, it will be a
shame if his dad never sees him. His hair is coming on nicely too, and I
am not without hope that it will be curly.
"Just for a few minutes, while I've been writing of Jims and the
concert, I've forgotten Ypres and the poison gas and the casualty lists.
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