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                                                   Paris, Sept. 25, 1919

My dear little Cabbage,

     Do you mind being called a cabbage? Because that is what I would always call you, if I were a Frenchman – (mon petit chou). On the other hand, you can’t call me a turnip or a carrot. That would be offensive, and a pear would be worst of all! That is one of the funny things of foreign languages. Well, dear cabbage, many happy returns of your birthday, and lots of presents; unfortunately I cannot send you anything from here; but mother will look after you alright, and I haven't seen your verlanglystje, but I heard it was a long one. Well, if you don’t get all you would like now, there’s Xmas to come.

     I hope you will have a little party, and a lovely day. I remember when I was about 12 I had a bad toothache, so you must be taking after me. My mother gave me some cherry brandy to hold in the sore half of my mouth; ; and after I had swallowed it, I thought it wasn’t such nasty medicine as I feared.

     I forgot to tell mother in my last letter that on my day off, which was spoiled by the rain in the morning, I went into some churches, the British Embassy church and some French churches. In one of them two weddings were being celebrated, and I watched the service which was very nice with the organ playing and sweet voiced choirboys singing hymns. Afterwards I went for a walk along the boulevards and came to a stationers shop, where a young lady was sitting in the window, working a typewriter. As I was coming along, she smiled and nodded at me violently. So I thought: what a forward young person, and on getting nearer, I found she was a life size wax doll; awfully real; she blinked her eyes and ran her eyes along the line as one does reading a book, and every time she had typed three lines she looked up and smiled and nodded like a real person. When I came quite close I found she was not really tapping the keys of the machine, only very nearly, and the sliding carriage was worked by clockwork – awfully clever, was it not? But the next thing I saw in another shop was even cleverer; the whole window was a sort of stage, on a pivot, it swung round and you saw three different scenes. The figures here were only the size of a pretty long lead pencil. And this was an advertisement for so-and-so’s soap. First, you saw a room with a lady at a washtub and a lady friend took up a (real) bit of linen out of the tub which the first lady had been scrubbing, and they nodded and pointed at it. And there was a little boy pointing to it and a little girl writing on a little slate and every few seconds she turned the slate around so you could see what she had written: “Mother always uses so-and-so’s soap.”

     Rrrrt! next scene.

     Here you see a kindergarten schoolroom, just like Miss Ruhig’s, and babies playing all sorts of things: everthing, mind you, going by machinery, and the schoolmistress telling the children there was nothing like so-and-so soap to keep clean.

     Whoosh! next scene.

     This was a children’s hospital, most likely a children’s hospital like where poor Bill once was. There was the nurse fussing around going from cot to cot, and in each cot lay a little baby wriggling and kicking up with little bare legs most funny! And all clamouring to be washed with so-and-and-so’s soap.

     So you can understand that there are always crowds of children in front of this shop.

     Well, cabbage, I do hope you won’t have toothache on your birthday; that would be too cruel! Have a nice time, and with lots of kisses, from

                                                      Your affectionate
                                                                Dad",,,,,,Letter,,,,,,,,,,,"Bouman Family",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,19190925,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"correspondence,family,Paris",https://presidentwilson.org/files/original/37dbf1597dc4d51fea75271e99fa0f6d.pdf,Text,"Jon Anthony Bouman Collection",1,0