-- FOREVER 227 Saturday December 19, 1914. Dark and cloudy. -34.5 Again we are enjoying a nice warm house as the temperature dropped lower to-day than at any other time this winter. Harry thawed out his water furnace started it first thing for the vacation we intend to take in at the home next week. About two o'clock I went in to fetch the curtain. The entertainment had been planned for tonight but no preparations had been made. After dinner we set about constructing a stage. The side walls were of blankets and the back one of colored paper. We need a skirting for the curtains and F.H. made it quite attractive by pinning a large flag across the front of it, he also put flags about in other places until the whole room looked very gay. The curtain was quite complicated in that it could be drawn back and forth by strings leading out into the work shop. This pleased the employees as much as anything else in the show. In the first act the opening chorus was sung by all members of the expedition in masses. We were so convivial looking that our audience immediately set up a howl and some of the women almost had hysterics. The funny part of it really was, that the chorus itself was never heard, and, since we could not hear one another there couldn't have been much harmony.