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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-04 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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and hotels as heartily (and rightly) as you do. Everything considered, I think your plan to settle in Cedar Rapids and lead a nice John W. quiet life is the most brilliant that could be devised. Not that I'm at all certain you will stay quiet long. You will probably be putting on shows and concerts for all the clubs in town before you have been there a month. But at least you'll have a sure place to sleep and get your meals more or less regularly. And there will be your two fine young nephews to come to see you and to look after your wants. Poor old dear - to be wasting your nickels on the movies looking for your hubby! I have a notion that the one I am in is the feature which I read in the papers was shown in New York only a few nights ago for the first time. Its title, I believe, is "America's Answer to the Hun." Incidentally, the answer is a lot more emphatic now than it was when the picture was taken, and it is getting more so every day. Today's news is characterized by many as the best of the year. The Germans made another big retreat yesterday, following their defeat in the very heavy fighting of three or four days ago. We don't know yet where they are going to stop and fight again. If they move as far back as they did yesterday in many successive days we'll soon have to begin speaking German in
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and hotels as heartily (and rightly) as you do. Everything considered, I think your plan to settle in Cedar Rapids and lead a nice John W. quiet life is the most brilliant that could be devised. Not that I'm at all certain you will stay quiet long. You will probably be putting on shows and concerts for all the clubs in town before you have been there a month. But at least you'll have a sure place to sleep and get your meals more or less regularly. And there will be your two fine young nephews to come to see you and to look after your wants. Poor old dear - to be wasting your nickels on the movies looking for your hubby! I have a notion that the one I am in is the feature which I read in the papers was shown in New York only a few nights ago for the first time. Its title, I believe, is "America's Answer to the Hun." Incidentally, the answer is a lot more emphatic now than it was when the picture was taken, and it is getting more so every day. Today's news is characterized by many as the best of the year. The Germans made another big retreat yesterday, following their defeat in the very heavy fighting of three or four days ago. We don't know yet where they are going to stop and fight again. If they move as far back as they did yesterday in many successive days we'll soon have to begin speaking German in
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