Page 28 - 1920 February - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 111

ALPHA PHI

B Y H E N R I E T T A M A E B U S , House Manager

Doesn't i t seem just grand to live i n a chapter house and espe-

cially i n a house where there is a happy family like ours? For a

housemother we have Mother Lindsay f r o m Billings. I f Mrs.

Lindsay should leave us i t w o u l d not seem like the same o l d A O I I

House.

T o maintain the expenses of the house each g i r l pays her board
and room which amounts to $30.00 a month. That is f o r board and
room o n l y ; i f a g i r l needs some sugar to make candy or uses the
electric chafing dish f o r some Welsh rabbit she pays an extra fee
into the house f u n d . I f Dorothy, A n n , or M a r l y n , or some of the
other girls wish to entertain their boy friends and serve refreshments
at a little party, they go shopping down to the corner grocery store
and purchase what they need, avoiding confusion w i t h the house
items. When our evening dresses need pressing we use the electric
i r o n and pay a pressing fee o f fifteen cents per month.

T h e n our alumna? girls write us a l i t t l e note quite often, telling
us they are enclosing a check to be used f o r something we need i n
the house. T h i s check certainly does come i n handy as we always
need extra things i n the house.

Last Monday evening, Ethel Young, one of our town girls, gave
us five dollars f o r our house. A t one of our meetings we voted
that a l l of the girls, who d i d not live i n the house, pay fifty cents
a month or $5.00 a year into the house f u n d . The town girls do
get a great deal of use and pleasure out of the house and are w i l l i n g
to help the house get a good start in this way. I f possible I ' m
going to try and turn this f u n d over to the building f u n d within
the next few weeks.

We have our building f u n d started and it consists mostly of
checks given to us by the alumna?. T h e n when one o f our girls
has a birthday she has to place as many cents as she is o l d i n the
building f u n d bank. I t makes it rather hard on the older girls but
they don't object.

Then i f any of the girls wish to have guests for dinner they pay
into the house the cost of the meals, which is thirty-five cents f o r
dinner, fifty cents f o r Sunday dinner, twenty-five cents f o r lunch
and twenty-five cents for breakfast. I f any o f the town girls come
in f o r a meal they pay f o r the meal i n the same way unless they are
a guest of the house.

Our coal b i l l has worried us a l i t t l e this year as the f u e l has been
so expensive and the winter has been so cold. When we moved i n
this f a l l we ordered nine tons o f coal, enough to do f o r the first