grips the heart strings.''

It is the busy people who find time to do
things and the mother-heart of Miss Graham
finds expression in her household in West
Lawn, a suburb of Topeka. Among the members
of her family are a niece and nephew
whose High School and College education she
directs.



ESTHER M. CLARK.


Every Kansan, homesick in a foreign land,
knows the call of Kansas and every Kansan
book lover knows Esther Clark's ``Call of Kansas.''

``Sweeter to me than the salt sea spray,
the fragrance of summer rains:
Nearer my heart than these mighty hills
are the wind-swept Kansas plains:
Dearer the sight of a shy, wild rose by the
roadside's dusty way
Than all the splendor of poppy-fields
ablaze in the sun of May.

Gay as the bold poinsetta is,
and the burden of pepper trees,