We went to see "Great Expectations" in the Rose Garden at the Baltimore Museum of Art. I was so glad when Pip was able to be happy, because his life was sad. He was an orphan.

"The Razor's Edge" was sad. I was very sorry for the poor mother who lost her child. There was a song in it called "La Vie En Rose." It was my song and Mommy's. We always thought about the movie when we heard that music. But there was something very beautiful and happy in the movie, too, when we saw the holy man in the mountains and the music swelled up so sweetly. Then we could think of God and how He makes everything all right if we trust Him and love Him.

We took lots of drives, and we went out Reisterstown Road all the way to Manchester, Maryland. We knew when we reached it because, in the countryside ahead, we could see two church steeples above the houses. We always stopped at Oursler's there for milkshakes and ham sandwiches. It was very clean, and everything tasted good there. The people were very pleasant plain country folk.

A few times, we drove to Westminster, Maryland. It's called the little city of faith and security. Mommy said three-quarters of the city is banks and churches. There was lots of security there and lots of faith.

I like to study about all the countries in the world. One day, when Mommy and I went for a ride out Reisterstown Road, we stopped at a fruit stand.

We went there often because we liked to drive out that road a lot. When we stopped on this day, a lady got out of her car and gave me some coins.

She said she traveled all over the world. There were Canadian coins and an Egyptian coin. The Canadian penny had a maple leaf on it. We all talked about travel.

Mommy told me Canada is a free country like we are. "Our values are spiritual ones, Linda, and we believe man is the child of God. Our government is based on cooperation, not orders or commands. We need an honest lawmaking body to manage our affairs for us. Then we have balance of values in a free way of life, like Jefferson said."

"India and Egypt can have a democratic way of life like ours too," said the woman who gave me the coins. "They can have self-government and peace and the same traditions and way of life, to strive for what is just and best for the common good of all the people."

I saw how the people of other lands live when we visited the museums. At the Walters Art Gallery, I saw an Egyptian mummy in a glass case. I asked Mommy about it. "They used an embalming fluid to preserve the body, and then wrapped it to keep air from it," she said. "It's thousands of years old."

"Doesn't it smell?" I asked.

"I guess it would, after it's opened. But it's inside the wrappings and hasn't decayed. That's how the Egyptians buried people."

We saw lots of coins there too, thousands of years old. One was a boy riding on a porpoise. Mommy said it was a coin telling about a myth or legend.

The best way to learn about yesteryear is to go to museums. At the Peale Museum, we learned about the artist Charles Wilson Peale and about early Baltimore. We saw fine paintings by Baltimore artists, and, at the Maryland Historical Society, we saw how people dressed a hundred years ago in Baltimore. They had parasols and ruffles and all kinds of fancy decorations. Mommy said those are the Victorian period and she told me about Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, and their children. They had parasols and ruffles and all kinds of fancy decorations. Mommy said those are from the Victorian period, and she told me about Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, and their children.

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