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On the Carpet. Captain Mildred Olsen, of the Salvation Army, received a summons to appear before Commander Evangeline Booth, at Lake George, N. Y., and explain her conduct in bobbing her hair. Captain Olsen is 25, an expert swimmer and diver. Commander Booth's niece, Mary Booth, had her hair bobbed in France during the period of her War work. She was condemned by General Bramwell Booth to stay away from the front until her hair grew long again. Will the decision of the Commander differ from that of the General?

Essenes in Tennessee. Men long past school age who desire to fit themselves for Holy Orders, are applying for admission into the Du Bose Memorial School in the Tennessee mountains.

The school is cooperative. The elderly students support themselves by running a farm and industrial plant. Their wives do housework. As they work they learn theology. Archdeacon W. S. Claiborne, Episcopal, directs them. The roster includes two ex-sailors and many sometime clerks, mechanics, farmers.

Except for the wives, this cooperative theological school closely parallels the Essene community of the time of Christ.