Checking boats home and a good dinner

I slept very well and the pain in my back is better. I think it is sciatica. I found Helen feeling very poorly. She had had a bad night from heat and indigestion. She stayed in bed all the morning. Mr. Betham came in and I had another lesson on the paper. Then I wrote a note to Florence. – at one I started out to mail it. Stopped at Thomas Cook’s and found a postal card from Florence at Florence. She feels the heat very much. She is at the Crocini.

Went to the P.O. and then to the Am. Consul’s where I was told that the Carpathia* was to sail Aug. 31st and that probably normal conditions would ensue. Bought some supplies and came home. Tried to buy some felt roosters for my two babies, but they asked too much. We had lunch at 3 and cleared away the things. Then I slept an hour and a half. Then Helen and I got dressed and went down to the public gardens where we walked around and watched the children and then went to a restaurant in the park and had chicken, spinach and macaroni and very good too. Sat in the park till nearly 10 P.M. and came home and read two short stories by Conan Doyle. Helen feels better tonight. Poor ink.

*The Carpathia was a Cunard ship which had been involved in the rescue of the Titanic’s passengers in 1912. On September 5th, 1914, it was fined by the Italian government for transporting emigrants without a license.