Nevertheless and notwithstanding I'm strong for that law. It would take more than a wedding ceremony to change my nationality and I'm glad laws are coming to regard women as_ possessing some personality of their own. It's a bit awkward just now but the idea is all to the good and since it's right in line with what women's organizations have been agitating for in England it's bound to be universal. I hope the temporary inconvenience won't discourage other countries because it's bound to work out comfortably in time.
All this, Madge dear, because I have to write a paper on this very theme for Mother's club. Me—at Mother's club. Being invited to instruct them makes me feel three times more matronly than any marriage license did. But I won't let myself get stodgy and fat, I vow to you I won't. We are not so very Main Street-y giving so that neither of us should ' here and with you to watch out for my frivolity and an occasional whirl to.either coast I reckon I can be jazz-y though married.
It's queer getting home. Of course it's no end strange running the bungalow, and between you and me, just as soon as I can demonstrate that it's no trick at all to manage a household and hold down a job simultaneously T'm going to try it, but just now it keeps me busy recalling the subtleties of rice waffles, cold starch, darning and church-going. T call our vacuum cleaner Ah-Nih in memory of our coolie: the electric grill is Chang: the flivver is Bau-Chin in memory of my ricsha puller; but I have to be my own amah and there is no one to answer when I sing out for Khan-Do, the fat tailor. It's all right, of course, but it's different.
And IT must say that I hate to think that we have to plan for a dance a week ahead of time if we want any sort of an orchestra, and it cramps my hospitable instincts to know that I have to cook for my guests and wash up_ their dishes afterwards. I think we'll do picnic entertaining largely tilk I become a little more reconciled to the dish-pan. But O, you vegetable-patches, and water right from the well, not to mention the brooks we explored the other day. There's more silver lining than cloud to it, on the whole.
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