As to the number of young people in the vicinity she says that there are about twenty "within this natural district." During the school year they have about six social gatherings; in summer there are informal picnics and Sunday visits with refreshments. Social life centers about the school and the doings in the adjacent town. Among some of the neighbors there is a German Club. As facilities for a social center, they have the schoolhouse (but with stationary seats), a playground, any number of natural groves and of fishing holes, and the big ditch for swimming. For the girls alone they have swimming parties and visiting parties; and they help one another during haying and threshing. This she puts down among the social gatherings for girls in her neighborhood! In the house there is a library of about two hundred and fifty volumes. Lack of time is the only thing that prevents reading. There is a public library in the nearest town and she goes there every week in winter. In summer however she is too busy with farm work to go so often. In the family evenings either she or her mother reads aloud: also on Sunday afternoon. The books that they have thus read together of late are _Lorna Doone_ and one by Wason called _Friar Tuck_ which she marks an underscored "Good." They have a piano and the favorite songs are such old favorites as _Annie Laurie_ and _Juanita_. Also they sing church songs, and popular tunes, such as _The Trail of the Lonesome Pine_. They adapt the music to the different tastes in the ten-children family. Besides the daily evening paper and the local weekly paper, they take _Successful Farming_, _Better Fruit_, _Scientific American_, _American Magazine_, _Cosmopolitan_, _Epworth Herald_, some law papers, the government bulletins and reports, _Current Opinion_, etc. For her own interests she is going to take _Epworth Herald_, _Primary Education_, _Youth's Companion_, _American Geographical Magazine_, _Current Opinion_, _Stock Reports_, _Successful Farming_. Her other cultural interests are these: Music; school, especially high school entertainments, correspondence with normal school friends; teachers' institute, each fall, one week; water-coloring; making beautiful clothes and fancy work; Rebecca Lodge; Church in town; amateur photography; and reading, underscored again. It is fascinating to see what a girl like this will include under the head of "cultural interest."