Evening star., 1941-05-17
The Connino
Tower
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN
SAMUEL PEPYS.
SATURDAY., Nav 10.

SAMUEL PEPYS.
Saturday, May 10.
BETIMES UP. ASTOUNDED
that the great rain was falling at
midnight had ceased, and so drove
Tim to the station, he going to
Wallingford, but I forgot to tell
him to talk to Dudley Fits, and I
and Anthony to Washington for
lunch, and thenafter talked with
D. Lanier and Mr.. Buxton, and then
watched the Gunnery nine defeat
the Canterbury nine. and so home
before o'clock, and thence to Davis
Hill road, to Reiners for supper,
where was Arthur Judson, and after
supper vast deal of shop talk,
about muSick, and orchestra play
erS, and how this one is adept with
the French horn, and that one with
the trumpet, or with the hautboy.
Sunday, May IL.
TO THE LAWN TENNIS COURT,
and played doubles in the morning,
and in the afternoon caught Tim up
at the train, and so he and his
brother played, and then I played
the pair of them, amid considerable
merriment. So home, and after
supper took my boy Jack to a con-
cert of young people at the Bedford
School. and DR.. S. Spaeth talked
mighty fell about how all could
have fun playing, even if the hear
ers might not, and I wished that I
had brought my harmonicka and
my concertina. But my daughter
was one of those who played a
Haydn symphony upon the psaltery.
and thenafter we home at 10, and
I read the newspapers. society news,
labor news. and theatre news. and
fell asleep thinking that I had read
of balls, strikes, runs, hits, and
errors.
Monday, May II.
EARLY UP, AND OUT TO GULL
some blossoms bright with yernal
dew, and so to breakfast. and early
to the train. and 10 the Office, where
at work till afternoon, and thence
to the nursing home to see my wife,
her malady being less than FRIDAY it
was, and so 10 the train. and read
how a celebrated NaZ that hight
Rudolf Hess hath landed in an aero
plane in Scotland, which, as Gilbert
had it. is pretty but I don't know
what it means, whether he Is a
Hitler envoy or one who hath
escaped from years of domination.
But I take no stock in what cometh
from Berlin, nor from London
neither. So home, and pretty soon
the Captain of the Hurlbutt nine
calls me, and said TO come to school
TO get him, and he crestfallen, for
asmuch as the Bedford Junior High
had beaten his team 81 to s. So
home and had A serene evening of
it, the boys being immersed, or en-
broiled. as they say. in study, and
I finishing whistle Stop by young
Miss Wolff. and I deemed it not
only good for a senior at Ann ArbOr,
but good for man or woman, dear
my Lord, of any age And as repeti-
tious, in some parts, as even so
ripe a writer as Mr.. Hemingway
might not be ashamed of.
Tuesday. May Is.
MIGHTY LITTLE TALKED
ABOUT this day but the arrival
in Scotland of Hess. and l have no
idea why he came, but that Hitler
knew that he was going I do not
doubt To the Office for little time,
and so with L. Brown and Jno.
Moses to the stadium. and saw the
Clapo1o Novr- VNVtyc
losing beautiful penny thereby,
nor was it the Cleveland pitcher
who needed a friend but Mr.. Russo
the Yankee moundSman who did.
So had a deal of trouble finding
a conveyance, but Mr.. Leo POsner
called us into his cab in which there
already were two gentlemen, one of
them from PittSfield, and so I TO
call upon my wife, pretty late, too,
owing to ten innings of the game,
and so away to supper and to the
train home and heard that NJ.
Connor had been removed from
Office at Hartford, hut no reason
was given, and haply it was be-
cause Connecticut led all other
States in safety driving, nor have
I ever heard a motorist complain
about Michael.
Wednesday, May IA.
IN SUMMER I LEAVE HOME
LATER and later, in winter quite the
other way. because on a pleasant
day the notion of work is even more
repulSive than when snow is on the
ground. So to see my wife, who
gave me some errandS to do, which
caused me to be certain that her
health was approaching the normal.
So home. doing all the errands I
could remember, and so to bed and
to sleep, without benefit of the
hypnosis of literature.
Thursday, May Is.
UP IN TIME TO HAVE BREAK
FAST with all the children before
school bus time, and so read in the
newspaper that Hitler had said that
Hess was a man who consulted as
trologerS, and I wondered what any
of them had said about today, the
Ides of May, or about Friday, June
13, the IdeS of June. Rode with NJ.
Silver to the city, and thence I TO
the Office till o'clock. and so take
some letters to my wife from the
boys, and it was mostly about the
scores of baseball games.
Friday, May Is.
WAKED AT 7, BUT DOZED
for 20 minutes, and so up and away
to the office in great hurry, and