Dear Mamma:-I get letters every day asking me to recommend women for fine places. Yesterday there was a Washington request and today a Wellesley one. The new draft is going to mean much upheaval in the teaching profession. There just aren't enough well-trained women for the places.
I had a fine long letter [transcribed here] from the Chinese girl, Me Iung Ting, the one who is studying to be a doctor. She wanted to be remembered to you. She has been studying much of the summer and is now substituting in a hospital position for a month. I wish I could see her.
I like this place very well. The people are pleasant and the house reasonably comfortable. There is enough to eat too, though one needs to be healthy. Miss Smith would not get on very well - but I'm not so delicate, and like things more generally. We had baked beans Sunday morning and Saturday night, and have many pies &c - but they are good.
I may have a boy to go up a mountain with me - a pleasant chap of college age. Now there probably will be no good weather! He doesn't stay long.
Yesterday I went down to Iron Mountain House to have lunch with Mrs. Grammer, my former table companion, whom I liked so much. She was nicer than anybody else I've seen, there or here. That is a nice hotel, too - I'd like to come up in the winter some time, for it is open all the year, and I'd like to see the mountains all snow-covered.
I'm glad to hear that you are getting on well - and that people come in to see you. Sorry the dining room floor is sticky. That finish they are so fond of just is not good.
With love to Miss Safford and always much to you,
Abby.Wednesday night
