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We are keeping house in a little white house off the pike. We have a white pup
and a red p i g and our chief diversions are going on hikes and attending pie
suppers. T w o of the high school teachers left after Christmas and I went up
to help until they could get someone else. I am anxious to see the May issue of
To DRAGMA, as I hear so little f r o m the girls.

Nelle Bondurant, H i c k m a n , K y . I have been staying at home f o r the past
two years, strictly a lady of leisure, and having a good time. This summer I
went with some friends on an auto trip through Indiana and Kentucky, and to
my great surprise saw Laura Mayo Jcrnigan at a summer resort where we
stopped. I was so glad to see her as i t is seldom that I see any of the girls.
I am in I-ouisville, now, shopping. A m sorry that I haven't something more
interesting to tell about myself now, but I probably shall some time.

Jess Edmonds Cromer, Des Moines, Iowa. I am busy t r y i n g to keep my
family straight. M y main occupation right now is either cleaning mud off
shoes and rubbers, or changing wet stockings f o r dry ones. Last night it was
change Harriet f r o m the skin out. Then between times I am t r y i n g to get my
summer sewing done, and a scarf and sweater knitted. Also I am taking a
course in shorthand and typewriting just to keep me busy. This month I begin
on my house, renovate inside and outside. Want to sell and get a bigger house.
Of course I haven't told everything, like feeding the chickens, canary bird, cat,
antl gathering the eggs; but maybe you get one thing f r o m what I have told.

E d i t h Verran, Roanoke, V a . We live in a country place about the same
distance f r o m Roanoke that Lida Moore is f r o m Knoxville, and I teach the
first year in Latin in the Lee Junior H i g h School in Roanoke. M y afternoons
are f u l l of club meetings, and the like, because Roanoke is a new city with but
few college women f o r its size, and there is much work to be done. I love i t ,
but I do get homesick for Tennessee, even though I never write to anyone and
seem to forget i t .

Sue Bryant, Dyersburg, Tenn. I am now teaching Latin and Spanish i n
the Dyersburg H i g h School, although it docs not sound very exciting it is quite
so at times. A t least I am not bored by monotony. Dyersburg is a very nice
town and I have enjoyed the year. I t is especially interesting to me to be in
West Tennessee this year, because I have spent a number of years in the other
sections. O f course, Middle Tennessee w i l l always be first with me, but East is
second, and the dear old " H i l l " and Fraternity Room. For the last two weeks
I have been t a k i n g the Red Cross course in Home N u r s i n g and care of the
sick, about which I knew absolutely nothing.

Louise Wiley, Greenfield, Mass. I am one o f four English teachers in a
very good high school in a very dear little New England town. I am not so
enamored of the North, that I am planning to stay indefinitely—in fact, I ex-
pect to teach once more in the mountains o f Tennessee next year—or hope (o.
But I do love the town, and the people, and most of all, the real New England
winter to which I have been treated—snow three feet deep w i t h of course sleigh-
ing and snow shoeing at every spare moment. I certainly did enjoy seeing
" R u s t y " at Christmas, and again the week before last. She is in her second
year of training now, and very happy in i t , I think. She hasn't changed a bit,
so you know how dear she is.

Alice Calhoun Cox, Bristol, Tenn. We are simply l i v i n g here and are well
and happy. The babies are growing like weeds. Indeed, Alice, Jr., can't wear
more than half of her dresses without leaving the collars open! A n d dimity
costs like all out doors! I d a Reid is almost three now, and feels quite grown