Sunday, January 10th
– Miss Sains related stories of a
young woman well known to her who had charge of a crèche of 30 infants, and
amused herself one day by changing all their clothes so that at night they
could not be identified. ‘And many of
them never were identified,’ said
Miss Sains. ‘I knew all her brothers and sisters, too. She wanted to go into a
sisterhood, and she did, for a month. The only thing she did there was one day
she went into the laundry and taught all the laundry-maids the polka. She was such a merry girl,’ said Miss Sains
simply.
Monday, January 11th – Mme Postnay was in the courtyard
of the palace of the King and Queen of
Serbia, but knew nothing. 'What are they throwing bolsters out of the windows
for?’ she asked. It was the bodies.
Arnold Bennett's Journal. 1908.
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