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picious. I f you want to know Harriette's particular fad, it is danc-
ing. She is going in for the new dances vigorously (appropriate
word!) what time she isn't planning additional features to a wonder-
f u l trip she is to take this summer.

As for Roberta, conglomerate is the only word to characterize her
interests. She teachers school—and likes it. She's a pillar of the
church—having done everything but preach. She has specialized
in story-telling, and frequently conducts the Story Hour at the
Union and the Public Library. She can't be restrained from the
indulgence of her rhyming propensities, and she has a passionate
interest in politics—though without the faintest, remotest, suspicion
of a desire to vote.

We used to worry in the good old days because so few Omicron
girls seemed to marry, but we are acquiring a truly creditable list
now. Three of our girls married this winter—Ailcy Kyle Peet. who
is at 92 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.; Berenice Taylor Herbst,
in San Benito, Texas, and Marjorie Pease King who is at home in
Buffalo, N . Y.

In addition to these we have: Jess Swann Rankin, who is in-
habiting a beautiful ante-bellum mansion, which still cherishes real
Yankee cannon balls in its interesting anatomy; Myrtle Cunningham
Tompkins, who "had no idea there was so much pleasure to be
found in quiet domesticity," and whose struggles to rear George
Wythe, Jr., "according to Hoyle" frequently fill us with unholy
mirth! Queenie McConnell Owensby and Emma Albers Hunt, who
are bringing up new members for Omicron's ranks; Jess Edmunds
Cromer recently become possessed of "the prettiest bungalow in
Des Moines"; Kate Gresham Harrison, whose marriage fortunately
did not interfere with her musical career; and some five or six
others of whom, because of distance and other extenuating circum-
stances, I know little except names and addresses.

We've our ladies of leisure too. Dear Mary Rust, who is spend-
ing her first year out of school in Nova Scotia, and Louise Wiley,
who is having a prolonged visit in New England as a reward for all
the honors she carried off last June. There's Hattie and Katherine
Caldwell, who are chiefly concerned with Woman's Club work, and
Anna Gibson whose most telling club work is done in her beloved
golf. And I must mention Blossom Swift who is flitting about this
winter from one delightful house party to another, all the way
from Texas to Washington, D. C.; and Mary Powell who uses her
leisure to good purpose, being a devoted worker in the St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Chattanooga.