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left Madison early in January for Panama.
From Panama he will proceed to San Sal-
   C. MORTIMER         0. OESTREICH
vador, Salvador, Central America, where
he has received an appointment as clerk in
the office of the U.. S. Consul General.-
Florence ACKLEY is teaching home eco-
nomics in the Rockford, Ill., high school;
address 228 S. Madison St.-Gustavus
JOHNSON is acting as field man for Libby,
McNeill & Libby. - HI-e may be addressed
at P. 0. Box 81, Bristol, Ind.-,Verlyn
                 SEARS  is engaged   in
farming at Neilsville.-
Gertrude    HUNTINGTON
Olson is teaching at Da-
  vis  Jct., 111.-Louise
  BEEBE is student dieti-
  tian at the 5th Ave.
  Hospital, New York
  City.--Edith TILTON is
  student dietitian in the
  Philadelphia Gener-
  al Hospital, Philadelphia,
  Pa.-.Claude - KENNEDY
- L. BEEBE      is engaged in advertising
     - BENSO  is. work in Manitowoc.-
irving BENSON is.actig as herdsmap.at the
liouse UL 'fUITUCVLl JlIOU "Ll , U1.AU, LVJ WU i t
kee.-Ralph LUECKER has accepted a-posi-
tion in the'credit department of the West
Bend Aluminum Co., West Bend.---Eliza-
-beth MoREY is-home extension agent at
Watertown,    S. Dak---Robert    RALPH
teaches vocational agriculture at Argonne.
-Harold PERSONS is connected with the
law office of McGowan, Geffs and Fox,
Jackman Bldg., Janesville.-Clayton BOND
has accepted a position with the Kohler
Company, Kohler.-Carl WiscHi is em-
ployed in the office of the American Tar
!Products Co., Chicago. His address is 7647
Jackson Blvd., Forest Park, -Ill.
   Change of address: Belva HOSKINS, 243-
 10th St., Apt F, Milwaukee; Mabel PETER-
 SON Miller, 25 North Mill St., Waupun;
 Muriel LEITZELL, 255 W. Fourteenth St.,
 New York City; Stephen MATrpEsoN 2102
 Sunnyside Ave.,- Chicago; LeRoy WAmn
 2721 Orchard St., Corvallis, Ore,;- Ruth
 DEVoY, 751-16th St., Milwaukee; Eliza-
 beth CLARK Pier, Arcadia, Calif.; Kathryn
 Guwmy, Purdy, Mo.; Lois COLE, 2528
 Hartzell, Evanston, Ill.; John REINHOLD,
 124 Wall St., New Haven, Conn.; Katha-
 rine STRONG, 118 S. Utica St., Waukegan,
 Ill.; Edith WECHSELBERG, 459 Juneau
 Place, Apt. 508, Milwaukee.
with -copper and iron. In his deSciiptions
of the little cafes in NewYork, in Chicago,
and in most Iarge~cities where the gypsies
spend their evenings, he has discovered a
side of American -life almost unknown.
  The anecdotes he tells are many_ and
entertaining. There is for example the
st6ry of Gabor who established the prece-
denlt of having a bathtub.' "As it, was ai
great-curiosity, the entire family and-, an
occasional neighbor or two .would gther
around the-tub to see him use it; and being
a modest man,-whenever he bathed lhe
kept his-underwear on."--Pais ýTimes, 12-
13-24.
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            BOOK NOTES
  Gypsy Fires in America (Harper and
Bros., New York, $3.00), IRVING- BROWN,
'-11.
  If a group of gypsies had not been
ported from England in Colonial days,
lovers of the long road, of field and of forest
might not now be revelling in Irving
Brown's Gypsy Fires in America, fires that
-burn with more warmth and brightness
tlr n-ev   e  d-thegypsy       J
Borrow or- Charles G. Leland, Who wrote
the Nomads into English letters.
  *George Borrow  was horrified because
his gypsies were "almost entirely ignorant
of the.grand points of morality," 'and he
was always separated by a large bar of
soap from the persons of whom he was
writing. Not so this new American writer.
He is no more bothered about the "grand
  oints" than the gypsies themselves, and
  ge is not interested in selling them Sapolio
  or Ivory -or even the Gold Dust Twins.
  Their naturalness, -casualness, and fire,.
  their revels, feasts, and songs, and dances-!
  dances to the most- maddening of-music-
  their thieving and their tricks, their love
  and enjoyment of life, these are %4hat fas-
  cinate Mr. Brown, and he has succeded
  in producing a book which will ascinate
  most readers.
  After giving his theories on the origins
  of the nomad race, Mr. Brown goes into a
  description of the "shyest, most nomadic
  and colorful of any body of gypsies in the
  world." They live almost exclusively- by
  the fortune-telling of the women, and the
  wives are eager to support their men, un-
  disguisedly enjoying male mastery..Mr.
  Brown discusses gypsy music, and, of course,