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I too, have the same descent, only my line (going backward) is through the Bents, then Deacon Edmund Rice of Massachusetts, through the English Rices. Howards, de Mowbrays, British Plantaganets. Scotch kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings. Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus, whose daughter Princess Scota married Milesius, King of Galicia. Andalusia, Murcia. Castile & Portugal—and Heremon, son of Milesius and Scota, was first of 183 monarchs of Ireland, who ruled that country for 2885 years— Zedekiah, David, Enos, Seth—Adam. MRS. FRED A. SAPP
Ottawa, Ill.
Lucky Girls
Sirs:
I rush, somewhat tardily, to the defense of the West Point dancers [TIME, March 11; April 1). Though unacquainted with the present generation, I can state flatly that the classes of 1918 and 1919 were no elephants, and I am indebted to them for some of the most glamorous dances of my life. In those days any femme invited to a hop paid all the expenses (railroad and hotel) of herself and the strictly required chaperone, took her kaydet to Sunday dinner because he was allowed no money, sent him fudge afterward (mailed to the janitor who would smuggle it in to him), and considered herself exceedingly lucky. Is it reasonable to suppose that any girl would take all that trouble, or indeed would dance all evening with brass buttons digging into her, if the dancing itself wasn't something pretty smooth?
Did modest "Elephants'" Sierra and Cubbison ever hear of a bid to a hop being turned down?
ELEANOR SEWALL PROSSER
Vassar 1919 Minneapolis, Minn.
Vanishing Symbol
Sirs:
". . . Like baby's diapers on a laundry line . . ." (TIME, April 1).
Astonished was this reader to find your article descriptive of modern housing garnished with a simile made of so swiftly vanishing a symbol of U. S. homelife. Though still unknown to many cities and rural districts, yet firmly established in such centres as Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Massachusetts' Brookline, Jersey's Oranges, diaper services substitute for primitive, disagreeable home 'washing an economical, unstinted flow of scientifically cleansed, soft, swell didys. . . .
RANDALL LEVENSALER
President
Baby's Tidy Didy Service, Inc. Woodside, L. I.
Relief & Babies Sirs:
RE STATEMENT TIME, APRIL 8, P. 30 AND 32. NEITHER MICHIGAN RELIEF ADMINISTRATOR NOR MICHIGAN RELIEF COMMISSION HAS TAKEN STAND ON BIRTH CONTROL. NO INSTRUCTIONS WHATSOEVER AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL USE OF RELIEF FUNDS FOR BIRTH CONTROL INFORMATION HAVE BEEN ISSUED. . . .
WILLIAM HABER
State Relief Administrator Lansing, Mich.
Lines Sirs:
LINES TO A HEADLINE ("Mr. Rexford Guy Tugwell to Direct Relief Fund").
They dizzy me, these New Deal face-cards. They shift. They are not keep-your-place cards. Where ere I turn, there is the smug well>— Garnished Jack-of-all-suits Tugwell.
ELIZABETH EMMETT
Peace Dale, R. I.
Expl oring Marmoset Sirs:
Since this business of "TIME erred" seems to have become a contest between TIME'S many readers and the editorial staff, allow a news- picture man to come to bat with . . . proof of a TIME mistake.