their garb and manners are conventional or not. I believe you could verify this by conducting a poll of employers, asking them what their attitude is toward employing known and suspected homosexuals and toward retaining discovered homosexuals."

B.D.H., Washington, D. C.

"Please send me a year subscription to your magazine as

I hear nice things about it from a friend of yours down in this district.

"I hope I can come to one of your meetings when I am in San Francisco

L.S., Mt. Herman, Calif.

"Please send me information regarding the Daughters of Bilitis and THE LADDER their aims and purposes come evidently from adjusted Lesbians. Is there a group of women in the Los Angeles area who are 'adjusted Lesbians'?"

W.O., Glendale, Calif.

"Fortunately, Colette's "Claudine at School' is not the only humorous Lesbian novel in existence. 'Extraordinary Women' by Compton Mackenzie is one of the airiest and wittiest satires on anything that I've ever read. It was published in England in 1928, the same year as 'The Well of Loneliness' but it didn't attract any of the attention and furor the latter did, probably because of its light treatment of the subject. A friend tells me it has recently been reprinted in London, but I haven't checked this.

"There is also Colette's 'The Indulgent Husband' (the third of four Claudine books, all first translated in the 1930s) in which Claudine's husband cheerfully aids and abets her in her passionate desire for another woman.

"And how about the secondary Lesbian theme in Pierre Louys'

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