But he gave
William a dollar for the man outside, and said to tell him to keep away
at meal times as even patriotism requires nourishment.

After dinner in the drawing room, mother said that she was going to let
me give a Luncheon.

"There are about a dosen girls coming out when you do, Bab," she said.
"And you might as well begin to get acquainted. We can have it at the
Country Club, and have some boys, and tennis afterwards, if the courts
are ready."

"Mother!" I cried, stupafied. "How can you think of Social pleasures
when the enemy is at our gates?"

"Oh nonsense, Barbara," she replied in a cold tone. "We intend to do our
part, of course. But what has that to do with a small Luncheon?"

"I do not feel like festivaty," I said. "And I shall be very busy this
holaday, because although young there are some things I can do."

Now I have always loved my mother, although feeling sometimes that she
had forgoten about having been a girl herself once, and also not being
much given to Familey embrases because of her hair being marceled and so
on. I therfore felt that she would probably be angry and send me to bed.

But she was not. She got up very sudenly and came around the table while
William was breaking a plate in the pantrey, and put her hand on my
shoulder.

"Dear little Bab!" she said. "You are right and I am wrong, and we will
just turn in and do what we can, all of us. We will give the party money
to the Red Cross."

I was greatly agatated, but managed to ask for the ten dollars for my
share of the Tent, etcetera, although not saying exactly what for, and
father passed it over to me. War certainly has changed my Familey, for
even Leila came over a few moments ago with a hat that she had bought
and did not like.

I must now stop and learn the Star-Spangled Banner by heart, having
never known but the first verse, and that not entirely.

LATER: How helpless I feel and how hopeless!

I was learning the second verse by singing it, when father came over in
his ROBE DE NUIT, although really pagamas, and said that he enjoyed it
very much, and of course I was right to learn it as aforsaid, but that
if the Familey did not sleep it could not be very usefull to the Country
the next day such as making shells and other explosives.

APRIL 11TH: I have had my breakfast and called up Jane Raleigh. She was
greatly excited and said:

"I'm just crazy about it. What sort of a Unaform will we have?"

This is like Ja