It was bad enough when they started wearing pants. It was worse when they began using Brooks Brothers as a couturier. But nothing--not even being a Radcliffe student--should allow a girl to smoke a pipe.

The Annex claims it's cheaper, indulges, and blames males for the new mouldy meerschaum habits.

Aun Pickett '50 acquired her briar when a man tried to break her of smoking cigarettes. She now smokes both.

Susan Steiner '50 and Wilma Levitt '50 bought theirs from a sharp dealer who doubles as a tobacconist. Miss Levitt thereafter disposed of three dozen among her friends.

Pipe smoking has some drawbacks which even a 'Cliffedwelling faddist will admit to. Two of them bumped into a Boston Post reporter last spring. The astonished scribe was moved to comment, "The only thing that showed the girls still had their marbles was that they refused to divulge their names."

As for college men--even the price advantage of pipes doesn't compensate. Complained L. Esprit Gaulois ocC. "Who could admire a briar in a miss' maw?"