1917 > CHRISTMAS < Friday, December 26, 1914. Cloudy, light variable winds. - 6. The day was saluted with a concert on the Victrola at one minute after midnight. Somehow or other the house seemed very empty and deserted; no many of the crowd are away. I did not feel a bit as if I were living through another Christmas Past. This is no new experience for me. At school I spent three Christmases in the hospital, and after I graduated my luck was not much better for I spent one cooking ship and one in the hospital in Boston while the last one in Disneytown was too full of work and worry to be Christmas at all. We worked hard over the Christmas dinner; this Christmas box contained a very excellent fruit cake and other good things to eat. We had four our own store a fine large Carolina roast and some canned vegetables. And Post but not Post with the exception of she we had a drink around. After the party was over we all turned in as our bedtime was past. Somehow or other we have gotten turned around so that we sleep from 5 P.M. to 12 A.M. This would be all right except for the fact that we do not have our meals changed, i.e., we continue to eat by the old 9:30 and 4:30 schedule. We cannot change an account of the Esquimoes; with two tables we must keep a regular schedule. To left for someone with O. Hylak.