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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-25 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

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the first inhalation of soup to the last morsel of the dessert. And they are so delightfully leisurely in their eating. I am getting so I can eat almost slowly and I frequently spend as much as an hour and a half over dinner and the incident conversation down at the club. I don't favor the "nurse proposition" you speak of. The Red Cross nurses who qualify in a hurry are not really nurses. They are nurses' helpers; and they have such work as sweeping, scrubbing, et cetera. You'll pardon my saying that I don't believe you would be a good scrubwoman, won't you? Or even granting that you would be a good one, why do that when you are qualified so much better for more difficult forms of service? For example, you would be a find for either the
 
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