familarity on the farms - We all had dinner together, then returned to the station where we took a night train on to Chicago. June 20. We reached Chicago, hot, tired, and black with soot in the middle of the afternoon. Cleaned up in the station then went out to find tea and see a little of the city- Spent a few minutes in the Art Institute then took a bus out thru' Lakeside Park, passing the new Tribune building with its striking Gothic Tower on the way. Very beautiful along the shore and finally cooled off. Returned to the station to put Lois H. on the train for St. Paul, then had dinner and spent another on the top of a bus trying to keep cool. Transferred to the Santa Fe Station where we sat and sweltered till time for the train to leave - about 10:38 p.m. At dusk I noticed the call of a Night Hawk and could plainly see it hanking for insects just above the buildings opposite the Penn. Ry. Sta. (Grand Central). June 21. Spent the day crossing Mo. and Kansas - very hot. The country however was beautiful with the grain still green and beautiful trees along the streams. - Kansas had changed tremendously since my first sight of it when we first came to Calif., by the Santa Fe in 1888. Then