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LADIES-IN-WAITING
6.30—Supper.
Cornetta Mush.
Poached Egg on Whole-Wheat Toast.
Sterilized Stewed Apples—Zephyrettes.
Cup of Somnolina.
(A beverage from which everything pleasant and harmful has been extracted by a beneficent process.)
7.30—Miss Blossom, the nurse, insists on reading to me. It is not a good performance but it doesn’t matter. I know that Dick and Amy Darling are just starting for the theater.
8.30—Tepid sponge bath.
9—Massage.
9.30—Glass of peptonized water.
9.45—Temperature and pulse taken.
10—Lights out.
Never in all my twenty-five years of life have I passed a busier or more exhausting day.
Wednesday
Precisely like Tuesday save for some new experiences in diet. There was a mild process-
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