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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI     101

                BUSINESS MANAGER'S REPORT

   February 1, the chapters stood as follows on the books of the
Business Manager of To DRAGMA. The increase in the number of
subscribers in some chapters is largely due to the faithful work of
the Chapter Alumnae Assistants, and speaks for itself in the following
figures:

       Chapter      No. Alum nee.  No. Subscribers Per cent

Upsilon             17 12 70.5

Chi 22 IS 68.1
                    3 7 25 67.5
Epsilon

Rho 46 27 58.6

Sigma               98 54 55.1

Gamma               91 A 1 4 5 +

Tau 26 11 42.8
Iota A 1 18 40.9
Pi 58 18 40.1
                    50 20 40
Lambda

Providence Alumnae  12             4 33

Alpha               86 22 24.8

Theta               101 18 17.8

Zeta 121 20 16.5
                    81 12 14.8
Kappa

Delta               122 18 14.7

Omicron 46 5 10.8

                        MARGUERITE PILSBURY SCHOPPE,

                                                Btisiness Manager.

                        THE STORY A N D T H E CHILD

                          ISABELLE HENDERSON STEWART, 2 '05

                             Grand President of A. O I I

   Every time I tell stories to a group of children, that particular
group seems to emphasize most strongly to me the value of stories—
for invariably I say, " I never had such attention! That little
girl who crept from her seat, and snuggled close to stay until the
Story-hour ended"; or "that little boy, with open mouth and eyes,
who wiggled off the bench at the telling of 'Little Black Sambo,'
and crashed to the floor at the identical moment when all the tigers
met."

   So the experiences go. But as the last Story-hour is the most vivid
permit me to say again, "No, I never, never knew the real value of
stories until I told them in our Rural School here in Sierra City. At
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