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such friends. Most of our friends are with us only a little while, but we get the touch of them and perhaps meet them again at intervals thru life. As you grow older, tho, you will find you can cultivate interests in common with many more diverse people. College, youthful friends are such spontaneous ones, tho, and these early friendships are usually solid ones that last, so don't feel that you are losing her. She may easily return to your sphere of life at some later date. But she is on her chosen path now and will go on. You can't throw yourself aside when your way doesn't go that way, so be resigned, and let her go. It is a pity that she couldn't have had a longer schooling at Radcliffe. I think such a woman if she has children at once, will feel her wings that she has just begun to use, terribly clipped.

When I got on the bus to come home yesterday, there was a young woman with a 5-mos. baby in her arms and a 2 1/2 child beside her on the seat. She looked up at me very sharply and then said, "You are Mrs Blake? aren't you? Don't you remember me? I was at the Corcoran." And then I did, she was a G.W. girl there 5 years ago who left college in her 2nd year and married a young soldier. "So you graduated to this?" I said. She laughed and told me that a picture she had painted at the Corcoran of me she had framed and was hanging in her home. That was how she remembered me. I really pitied the poor child - both babies had bad colds & she had brought them in to the doctor from away out in that settlement near Fairfax where she lives.     It is always the hardest on the woman because she cannot cast away her own children and nature (usually) gives her an ample supply of instinct for protecting the young at her own intellectual expense, as well as physical and everything else. Natural instinct is paramount. So women have from