en Selected," "Speaking of Automobiles,"
"The Unusual Thing," "The High Cost of Learning," and "Wanted--A Funeral
of Algebraic Phraseology;" also, some verse, "The Twentieth Regiment
Knight" and "Back to God's Country" are magazine work that never came
back. School Science & Mathematics, a magazine to which she contributes
and of which she is an associate editor, gives hers as the only woman's
name on its staff of fifty editors.

Her book, "The Passin' On Party," raises the author to the rank of a
classic. To quote a critic: it is "a little like 'Mrs. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch,' a little like 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' but not just like
either of them. She reaches right down into human breasts and 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,
The sunflower, tawny and gold and brown,
is richer, to me, than these.
And rising ever above the song
of the hoarse, insistent sea,
The voice of the prairie,
calling, calling me.

Miss Clark was born in Neosho Co., Kansas, about twelve miles southeast
of Chanute, on a farm. At seven years of age, the family moved to
Chanute and her school days were spent at the old Pioneer Building,
where her mother went to school before her. In 1894, she graduated here,
later entering the University of Kansas for work in English.

In 1906, "Verses by a Commonplace Person" was published. "The Call of
Kansas and Other Verse" came out in 1909. This volume contained "My
Dear" and "Good Night" which were set to music, and "Rose O' My Heart."

"Rose o' my heart, to-day I send
A rose or two,
You love roses, Rose o' my heart,
I love you.