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she nor Reva Snyder Vanderbilt appeared oppressively dignified on that
morning last month when they called in Paterson.

Faery writes that her sister, Florence Farrington Hutt, has moved to
Hoosick Falls, where her husband is to be superintendent of schools.
Florence herself, I fancy, is more engrossed just now in the two-months-
old baby girl she has just adopted, than in any school system.

Some impressive legal stationery, bearing puzzling references to
embezzling cases, bankrupts, and criminal courts, brings also the news
that Bertha Muckey out in Idaho is simply enthralled by her new profes-
sion. She has lost, she states, all her hair save that needed for a sleek
shingle, forty pounds, and every last bit of romanticism. . . And this
is the place, I think, for some other information of Bert which came
to me recently on the best of authority—that in her Idaho Bar Examina-
tion last December she got the highest mark ever received in that state.
'Twas what we expected, of course.

Mary Adams is teaching this year at Hornell, Emily tells me.
From her apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. Florence Gilger O'Leary
sends a characteristic letter—seasoned, however, by an unexpected dash of
the domestic. Life must be a fascinating adventure when there is a new
city for every new moon.
Only three of us managed to make the September New York alumnae
luncheon, and, since the other two were on time, I did not get at their
table to hear the news. I f I had, I might have been able to persuade
Alice Coulter to tell me more about that new position of hers. I t in-
cludes everything desirable, I gathered—luxurious office, endless people
to manage, and all that. I f Kay Jenkins had sent me the letter she
promised that day, I could have told you even the name of the firm.

MARRIAGES

Ruth Melvin, '17, was married on the fifteenth of August to Robert
C. Suppe, of Clinton, New York.

Virginia Wilson, ex-'26, this September became the wife of Jay L.
Frankum of Martin, Ga. The young people are living in Utica, I hear.

Faery supplies a part of the information I lacked last time by telling
me that Greta Coe is now Mrs. Hoyt Hollister, at home in Mexico,
New York.

BIRTHS

Tweed MacDonald's little daughter, Jean Margaret, was born last
June.

There are three other new babies you'll want to hear about: one be-
longing to Ruby Davis Lamb, '14; another to Vera Ingalls Bliss, '15; and
the last to Ruth Sydney Merchant, '23. I wish I could tell you how new
they are, or how good. Perhaps their mothers will write it down care-
fully f o r me before the next letter.

Ethel Farrington Dexter actually did answer the demand f o r infor-
mation concerning the age, sex, and disposition of her infant by writing that
she had a girl named Janis. nearly six months old, and adding (with an
indignant mother's eye on that "disposition," I suspect) that she "would-
n't change her for anything."

FRANCES CARTER.

BETA PHI
Wilkic Hughes spent the summer doing relief work in the Yale Uni-
versity School of Nursing at New Haven. During July she was in
charge of the Surgical Clinic, and during August of the Medical. The
middle of September she went to Teacher's College. Columbia University,
to begin work on her M . A. degree in Nursing Education, under the Alpha
Omicron Pi scholarship which she was awarded.
Vallie Messner is again teaching in Elkhart, Indiana, and may be
addressed at the Y . W . C A . there.