one can come to know herself; by looking into the liv- ing. mirror of a hundred faces, each struggling with similar problems, beats any therapy the psychiatrists can offer in their "fifty-minute hour". The small-to- wners don't perhaps have as much experience as the city types, but their questions can, and do, give the rest of us some things to think about. Many a silly notion, cherished in secret for years, is vanishing under the sc- rutiny of this sisterhood. My private cobweb, now co- vering four continents, has certainly made a new person of me.

Another important thing is the feeling of security. What does it take to encourage a normally cautious per- son like me to land at the airport of a city I've never seen, take a five mile taxi ride to an obscure address with a suitcase full of clothes whose very possession is evidence of unusual activities and interests, enter a house to meet people whom I've met only by letters, and entrust to them my reputation and even personal safety? This is not done lightly- and yet, with the knowledge of the Chevalier security system in mind, there is little fear in my mine when I do it! I can har- dly think of a greater tribute to the dedication and in- tergrity of Virginia, the person responsible for setting up this system than the preceding two sentences. of course, we cannot leave it all for her to do; there are and will be a few uninvited and irresponsible passeng- ers on this railroad, and it is up to all of us to do our part in keeping it safe and clean.

And what of the girls, my hostesses and guests on this wild ride? They are all different, and yet they have much in common. Tall, short, slim, broad; from the incredible beauty of Eileen to a few faces that only a brother could love, they have an attitude which I can only describe as "joyful". (One can scarcely use the much abused word "gay", but I'm sure we have a lot more true gaeity than the tearful users of that term.) Clever, ingenious, courageous; these are musts for any TV, in her calm determination to ignore the laws of physics and defy the laws of man. In addition, one cannot help but notice a certain calm serenity, the sort that comes only to those who have been through Hell and know they don't have to repeat the trip. (There are