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I fancy Peg Kreisel '21 will stay at home in Amsterdam, too, for she
starts teaching this fall in Schenectady, not many miles away.

The commuters in the New York City section will include Marjorie
Townsend, who has a position in School 131, New York, and Thelma Rob-
ertson, who is to be music supervisor in Ridgefield, New Jersey—I believe
that is the name of the town.

Kay Jenkins '24 is to teach at home in Ridgewood again next year.
Indeed, it is going to be impossible, I foresee, to get Kay to teach any-
where else, lor that hope chest, she declare;, is becoming too heavy to be
moved until it is shipped back to Chicago. Go away without it, you offer
as a suggestion? But then you haven't lived with Kay and that chest.

I t is not generally known that Alice Coulter ex-'2S is almost as able a
cook as a business woman. One day last June when New York University
having closed its winter session and not yet opened the summer, Alice had
no more to do than an ordinary person (simply her work at the bank), she
found time to run out to Ridgewood to prepare a meal for us, and dis-
played surprising culinary skill in so doing. We feel that this valuable
information about Alice should be published for the benefit of all Chi's
busy housewives of the vicinity, for, now that her University work is near-
ing completion, she will, doubtless, have hours to spare where before she
had seconds.

Helen Gregory '19 and Esther Baker '22 gave last June a subscription
bridge at Helen's home, for the benefit of Chi's house fund. I t seems
good to have Helen in Brooklyn again instead of in California.

Helen Schrack, M.D., writes she works daily from nine to nine doctor-
ing those Camden people. I t is a relief to hear that she is to have a little
vacation after all, in the form of a camping trip in the Catskills.

"My soul! am I never to get through studying?" wailed Bertha
Muckey in her last letter. The cause of her grief was her parents' removal
to Idaho just after she had passed the New York bar examinations, and her
consequent immersion into a whole sea of new laws for the different state.
Of course, we feel that i f we could sail through law college with an aver-
age away up in the nineties, as Bert did, we should really enjoy taking
any examination that came along.

LOST—Like that disobedient mother ( I trust familiar to all you who
read rhymes to your children), for whom "King John put up the notice,"
one of our own alumnae is "lost or stolen or strayed." Gertrude Hall '19,
reported to be teaching in New York City and actually known to be living
in a certain apartment house, was lost so completely that letters addressed
to her there were returned to the sender instead of being forwarded. Per-
chance, 'twas just the heart that was lost, though—you will find Gertrude's
name again in these notes.

FOUND—Four times within the last year Florence Gilger O'Leary has
been found. First, we heard she was in Syracuse; but before we got around
to writing there came the news that she was in Buffalo; then while we were
telling that to our friends, arrived a card from Florence, pleasantly settled
m Iouisville, Kentucky. But she is not there any more; she is back in
Buffalo—or was, at the last hearing. Flo always did have a tendency to
enjoy surprising us, you remember.

ENGAGEMENTS

Dear me ! I find they were all married this summer!

MARRIAGES

1 had just finished writing a note of the engagement of Reva Snyder
19 concluding with a slightly pert remark about her failure to send the
information I asked for, when, lo! the special delivery boy brought the
reply to my letter, delayed by my mistake in name and address. For my