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cation to an aero-school, and was accepted. She stayed there for ttvo
years, until she was called by the government into active service in the German-American War, which was then at its height. She distinguished herself by her remarkable tactics in the air-service, and was invaluable to the government till the end of the war. Since then she has been married to a well-known professor of science, and lives with him in Maine.
Helen Lounsbery announced her engagement in her junior year, and left college to be married to an Episcopalian minister. They went south
soon after their marriage, and still live in the Virginian hills with their six children. The work they are doing at their plantation school is a great help to the State. When Idelen isn’t helping her husband, she is
knitting sweaters for her large family.
Jacksonia Watt, after a hard struggle, was graduated from Vassar.
She returned to her home town in Georgia, where she lived an uneventful life for only six weeks, when she seized upon the notion of becoming a Russian dancer. She went to Baltimore and studied there for five or six
years. Now, as IVladame Jacksonivitch Watsky, she appears regularly in the new dancing exhibition of Ruben’s World Circus.
While in school we all wondered what would become of Catherine Ames, bent on arguing. She became so famous for her discussions, that eight years ago the President appointed her to take part in all Federal
debates. We hope she still enjoys argument as she used to, twenty years ago.
After Alice Joy left college, she joined Barnum & Bailey’s Circus as a tight-rope bicycle rider, because she had become attached to the wheel on which she had ridden between number 8o Myrtle Avenue and school every day. As she was much troubled by the falling out of her hairpins while doing her circus tricks, she used her mathematical brain to invent a patent hairpin that was warranted not to come out. She soon tired
of this occupation, and set up a knitting establishment on Fifth Avenue. It i? said that at present she knits ten sweaters a day.
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