Well, Friend, I hope the New Year will hold some good things for you and, if you are finding the aftermath of the bright season too dull and um-bearable, you can always advei the personal columns of the papers and tell the world how tall and beautiful you are: reveal your wit and grace and then write and teil me results.
Alternatively I note there is a se! of 43 volumes of Voltaire's works for sale, so what about buying" that to while away the long winter evenings?
None of us knew last year at this time what the Little New Year had in his bag for us, nor guessed dreadful nature, Surely qhe ru w ba of 1938 can have no and for that and no more, we r comes, in fact it makes things very dear for us since when wages go up, so do prices." Other tragedies have included such horrors as being unable to drive home in comfort after some theatre on account of fog, while family colds and rheumatisms have blackened the background of life and made it hideous.
Go' you see, Friend, that other worlds have their set-backs, but it was cheering to receive sympathy for us all here from a charlady friend of mine, She sends Christmas wishes and sincere sympathy to myself and all who have to live "in them there lands" Poor Mrs, Bucket, she has my sympathy, even though she does live in civilized regions, for the prospect of facing a homeside winter to the accompaniment of mops and dusters, especially when those are wielded in the interests, of an employer, is pretty dreadful—worse even than losing one's form at golf.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.