Well we are walking home and I am nearly there and I tell him he had better not go no farther because we don’t know what his wife may be doing and we have got to be careful so we shakes hands and parts and I climb up to my hall-bedroom and I forgot to tell you Mom my landlady has give me an embroidered splasher that has got a red lily on it to hang on my wall and it is a lovely decoration she done that because we have got to be friends since she was there when Mrs. Edgerton come to see me and insulted me. Well it is a good thing to be friends with your landlady because some time when I get stuck for my rent for a few days she will be more polite with me. * * * * * P. S. Well Mom it is the next day and I have just got back from the Elite Beauty Parlors and my God I have sure had a time I don’t know if I will ever go back because we have had a strike and who do you think was the leader of it of all people in this world your own Mamie Riggs and what do you know about that? I will tell you the story right off. It was Florabelle that begun it I call her Floradumbelle but she is got good business sense all the same and she says to Hattie Schoenstein, “My landlady has raised the rent on me a dollar a week and what am I going to do must I go without my lunches?” And Hattie that I have called Hotaire she says, “And the madame has raised the price of a manicuring twenty-five cents but what good does that do us?” And that is no hot air either Mom. And then Adaire Huggins she says, “Why shouldn’t we get a raise when everything else is being boosted?” And I says, “I am with you girls,” and they asks me will I be the one to do the talking because they seem to think I am good at it because of my political experience which they suspect I have had though of course I have not told them and they have not found out who Mr. Edgerton is. Well so we go to the private office but it is not so private because Madame Lafferty lets out a yell and she says, “What you ask me for more money and when I am on the verge of bankruptcy because the landlord is holding me to this lease that was made in war-time?” “Us girls is got to live too,” I says, “it is war-time for us right now.” “I can get a plenty to do your work for less,” she says. “And they will be girls that will fix their hair like I tell them to and they will behave like ladies and not be having the telephone ringing all day so that my customers do not know whether I am running a beauty-parlor or a date-ranch.” Well of course I know that is a slam at me and I am hot and I says, “All right ma’am,” I says, “and you go and find them slave-girls right off because I am a free-born American citizen and I am through,” I says, “and come on girls let’s get out.” And with that we turns into the parlors and there is the customers with their fingers half done and their hair half waved and we shouts to the girls, “It is a strike we’ll have a dollar extra a week or we quit!”