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dissemination of information to scattered members through state news                         N
letters of an intimate nature. She will collect alumna? dues of $1.50 per
year per alumna and all contributions to our new philanthropic work.              Wherein S £tart to ^Angkor
Her duties will also include the responsibility of securing and keeping
up-to-date the addresses of each member in her territory.                         «|-N M Y last                                                 10, after an in-
                                                                                    I travelog, I                                              teresting stop
     Our new social service work should give each of us a common inter-                                                                        in the hot
est and nothing cements interests so well as a desire to see that in-                  told you in                                             spring regions
terest succeed and become enriched. Without the support, spiritual and            it, I think, that                                            around Beppu
financial, of each alumna, our project cannot grow fully. I t is your work        I was going to                                               at the far west
and your work cannot bloom with only the nurture of your neighbor.                Formosa from                                                 end of Japan,
The 1931-33 budget for our social service work in Kentucky has been               Japan. I never                                               and a day in
apportioned to the state chairman according to the number of members              reached there,                                               Nagasaki.
in each state or group of states. You will find the amount which                  because, as so                                               Shanghai itself
your chairman is expected to raise ere the year closes. An average con-           often before                                                 was an old
tribution of fifty cents a person will satisfy this budget.                       the gods inter-                                              story by now,
                                                                                  fered and pro-                                               for I had been
     No doubt each of you has had her member-at-large letter and her              vided another                                                there five
first state news letter by the time this copy reaches you. What have              one of their                                                 times, but this
you done about it? Procrastination, the saying goes, is friend only to            unbelievable                                                 was the first
half-living people. Are you half-alive?                                           surprises.

Do ^/ o u Know  That

      There are some easy and pleasant ways to earn your quota for our Social     After really                                                 time in all of
Service work? Muriel Turner McKinney ( A ) , Grand Vice President suggests a
few.                                                                              thrillingly in-                                              those visits in

      Have you sold metal sponges, card table covers, Christmas cards, fireplace  teresting weeks                                              which any trips
brushes, shelf paper, napkins, Christmas wrappings?
                                                                                  in Japan in the                                              into the inte-
      Have you earned a commission by taking parties through laundries,
demonstration homes, ice box factories?                                           fall during and                                              rior cities were

      Have you made quilt blocks and then raffled the quilt at a silver tea?      just following     Outside of a Japanese inn at Minobu, in   possible, war
                                                                                  the Enthrone-      the course of a tramping trip around the  conditions hav-
      Have you had contract bridge classes with expert members as teachers?                                 base of Mt. Fuji.
Fifty cents a pupil at each lesson helps.                                         ment excite-                                                 ing prevented

      Have you tried theatre benefits, fashion shows, bridge parties and rum-     ment (much of             Further Adventures     from        them on earli-
mage sales?                                                                       the time spent,                      the Pen of              er occasions.
                                                                                  as I think I                                                 Between
      Have you tried a baby class for young mothers with one of your trained                                LILLIAN SCHOEDLER
members as teacher?                                                               told you, in                                                 lengthy shop-
                                                                                                            Alpha
      Have you had food sales and pot Idck suppers?                               Kyoto, at the                                                ping expedi-

      Have you had a birthday penny box or a waist measure penny apron?           home of friends who                                    wtfiaoesnncstin, attointhgSeoroeofclohdroew,c, ityaI
                                                                                  "ved directly across
      Have you tried bridge or golf tournaments?                                  J"e street from the

      Have you tried to raise your quota? Further information will be given       I l n P e r i a l Palace                               with picturesque old
by the Grand Vice President.
                                                                                  JjHs), I left for                                      arched bridges and

                                                                                  Shanghaion December                                    it was often difficult
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