1878

Bouton reports a violent attack of an old ailment that took him to hospital twenty years ago and now again required painful treatment, which although effective, leaves him somewhat weakened, with warnings against over-exertion and exposure to cold.

Hayt is making friends of boys and girls of high school age, and thinks we needn't worry about them: "They are all right." He takes note that Presidential appointees all come from below Mason-Dixon Line. Says he got safely by Thanksgiving. Like the Indian, "I eat much, feel awful good."

Tarbell celebrated his 92nd birthday with a home-coming of absent ones, including two great-grandchildren. His son, Dr. Glee Tarbell, a specialist in Prosthenic Surgery, was just then pursuing advanced courses therein at Chicago, so was at hand to join in the home-coming. Incidentally Tarbell tells of hearing Longfellow at Cambridge in 1875 read his poem in commemoration of Washington's taking command of the American forces.

Parkinson plans to attend Council Meeting at Hanover. His hearing-aid will bring him only fragments of the discussion of important topics promised, but there are other calls. His four years in College were the longest period he had ever resided in one place up to his 35th year, so Hanover is nearer to being his old home town than any other, and he yearns to see it once more. To compare notes with Tarbell, Parkinson also listened to Longfellow that same year of 1875 as he read his "Morituri Salutamus" at the 50th Anniversary of his graduation at Bowdoin College.

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