This spring finds the Young family particularly good health, enjoying unusually fine New England weather in a new home. Last November we moved to another part of Wellesley Hills where we had bought a house and are now experiencing a good deal of amusement watching flowers and shrubs, which were planted by some one else, coming through the ground. Being unable personally to tell a daffodil from a cauliflower, I shall have to wait for the finished article before I shall know what we have. The past two weeks have found me using all my spare time picking leaves out of the barberry hedge. For every leaf extracted I have acquired a painful pricker, and with great relief announce that the hedge is almost cleared. One daffodil is already through, the shrubs are all in leaf and two flowering quince trees look very promising.

My older son, Phillip Pratt Young, has just achieved a pen and the use of ink in school, a very important milestone with him. His younger brother, John Campbell Young, has had his supper in bed the last two nights in the expectation that some of his runaway activities might be curtailed. Katharine adds to her household duties at least one afternoon a week bowling in a women's tournament and one or two afternoons at bridge. We both bowl in an evening mixed tournament and are both pretty punk. Her mother, Mrs. Daniel T. Pratt of Elmira, has spent most of the winter with us.

I made my usual trip to Europe this winter, spending some time in Paris, Berlin, Chemnitz and London. While in Paris I was disappointed to find that Harry Campbell and family had gone to Nice, where he was studying with the famous singer, Jean DeReske¹, who recently died. Many people have asked me if Germany is coming back. My unhesitating answer is that Germany has come back. I saw there no signs of unemployment, all mills were running full time or overtime, the city shops and department stores were doing a big business, the theatres, and particularly grand opera, were patronized to their capacity at high prices, and it is said that some American movie stars find working in Germany better pay than Hollywood. I suppose their greatest want in Germany, and the only thing they really suffer from, is the lack of motor cars, largely due to the fact that Fords are excluded. Naturally, having no army or navy to pay for, their taxes are less than those of either England or France. Very few foreigners are travelling [sic] in Germany, although conditions of

I look forward to this issue of letters from my Campbell cousins, and hope that I may see some of you in Elmira this summer if not before then in Wellesley Hills.