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[page 677] and some of them go out twice a day, stroll about all who can do so. They are employed about the house, about the kitchen, about the grounds on the farm, the females in the laundry, in the sewing room, and some are employed in the wards, some in fancy work a little, some play games, cards + checkers, and in the winter evenings we have some amusements, twice a week we usually have an evening entertainment of some kind, music and dancing; we have theatrical entertainments concerts vocal and instrumental, we have lectures and dramatic readings and recitations. Ques. Give us the history of some particular day, take Monday week. Ans. They were in the wards, a good many of them are idle and listless, you cannot get them interested in anything scarcely, it is very difficult in the winter to get them employed because there is not work for them to do, they cannot get out doors very much except in very pleasant weather and that for a little while. Some of them play checkers, some of them are entertained by the attendants that play on musical instruments. Not many went out; they do not get out very much in the winter. Ques. Any of them go to ride. Ans. Some of them I think, I do not remember now, they go when they can have the team.