Sharp diary 1918 page 40. Wednesday 6 February 1918 - Chicago
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Wednesday 6th of February 1918
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Had a pretty bad night but woke up feeling better than I expected. Couldn’t look at breakfast. Walker came in and found temp[erature] just under 100. Said pulse was good, pronounced it an attack of Grippe and after the usual needless & useless platitudes went away jingling his prospective fee in his pocket! I dozed away all day, eat practically nothing till the evening when Maud somehow or other managed to purchase an egg called fresh and at least eatable. Feel that this is merely the result of going down to Evanston on Tuesday. It is queer that here in the 20th cent[ury] there is no system in any country whatever by which people’s energies should be guided automatically into those channels where they will yield the highest results. The only force which determines is the force which the capitalist exercises by spending his money this way or that. So that a man like myself has to waste himself as I did on Monday — spend 7 hours physical energy in order that I may try — quite in vain — to teach 30 giggling schoolteachers some dances which they will never do decently nor desire to do decently. A queer world.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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