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I am not out, but am on the contrary good friends with the other Iowa people. Don't worry about that; and I think I have explained how Minnie and I feel.

I hope Aunt Matt and Uncle John will come to the World's Fair, and I want to be home when they do. What about Mr. Eddy's house for the Fair?

I wish I could come home too and just help you out with that terrible sewing. I feel real mean sometimes to think that I am so far away just trying to get so much in my head.

I wore my olive and brown hat today for the second time. I guess I'm not growing materially and it would be impossible not to tan, though I have a big hat which I wear a good deal. Exercise must make me gain, as I go to the Gym three days in the week and play tennis as well as walk.

Helen Willis' Mother is able to be in an invalid chair, but that is all and she has to have a nurse and is very poorly.

I called at the Stanfords Saturday but Mrs. S. was in the city. Left my card, however. I asked Nellie and Sadie Kirby to go but they could not, so went alone. Minnie and Mrs. Fyfe and Harriet were calling the other day and they went there. Mrs. S. was engaged, but they saw the house.