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literary personage, finding a cordial reception in the best periodicals
for her wonderful stories. She declares that she has no fads, no
accomplishments, and no conversation except such as relates to the
propriety of spanking, or the comparative values of cereals and meat
extracts in infant nutrition.

Then there is Lucretia Jordan Bickley, daughter of Tennessee's
Dean Emeritus, and heir to a large part of his executive ability.
We persist in believing she married and moved back to Knoxville
for the laudable purpose of "binding up the actives' cut fingers"
(the quotation marks are Dorothy SafFord's). Yes, indeed she is a
suffragist, but just at present she is more absorbed in the Better
Babies Contest. There's a reason! Dainty, accomplished, versa-
tile—she is a bundle of enthusiasms, and everybody's able assistant.
She is deeply interested in the social service problem, is a member of
the City Missions Board and of St. John's Friendly Society, and
does visiting and club work under their auspices. Her chief laurels,
however, came from the splendid work she did as a member of the
Woman's Board of the National Conservation Exposition.

May Stokeley went into Y. W. C. A. work immediately after
graduation, and pretty little Mary Buchanan became a real White
Linen Nurse (the "noble expression" was no trouble at a l l ) . But
the great rank and file of what Omicron pleases to call the "bloomin'
alumnae" are teaching. I t wasn't pretty of whoever said, "Of course" !

Four of our girls specialized in Domestic Science and are teaching
that fascinating study this winter—B. Armstrong at the East Ten-
nessee State Normal. Janie Peavy in Texas, Alice Hayes in the
Nashville schools and Helen Kennedy at the Knoxville High School.

Some of us are right far from home. Harriet Greve is teaching
in the College of Women, Columbia, S. C. She ought to be writing
this, but she isn't. Felicia Metcalf is teaching in Yazoo City, Miss.
I t does sound wild, doesn't it? However, she assures us earnestly
that it is not. Laura Swift Mayo is instructor in history in the
quaint old Tennessee town of Greenville. Kathleen Douthat and
Jess McFarland are teaching away from home, but Martha Lou Jones
has a splendid position in Memphis which is practically next door
to her own town. Minn Elois Hunt and Edith Caulkins in Knox-
ville, Lillian Wells and Harriette and Roberta Williams in Chatta-
nooga, are wrestling with Young America on their native heaths.

Omicron chapter is indebted to Lillian for many a place card, for
she has an artistic bent which has received every encouragement.
She has taken up china-painting in earnest this winter, but she is
also "rolling and whipping" with a fervor that looks a bit sus-