The people of Switzerland do not live in the super-refined atmosphere to which most Americans are accustomed but their lives are simple and happy, they read much, and both men and women are exceedingly well informed, according to Mrs. P. H. Elwood who spent the greater part of her girlhood in that country, receiving her education there and who has visited the small European republic several t i m e s since coming to Ames with her husband, Prof. P . H. Elwood, head of the Landscape Architecture Department of Iowa State College, to make their home.