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more charitable one. Some of the fraternities have started a very ALUMNiE NOTES
nice custom of inviting three or four other fraternity girls into their
rooms f o r lunch. W e spend a pleasant, gossipy half-hour, and go OMICRON
away feeling closer to our neighbors than ever before.
(These notes are so original that the Editor has placed them by themselves.
R I E T T A G A R L A N D , I I , '17. Alumna; assistant editors—take notice!!)

I n response to the Editor's appeal to "make this last T o D R A G M A ,
before Convention, the best," Omicron's alumnae editor sent out a
f r a n t i c S. O. S. call to some of the o l d girls f o r news. T h o u g h they
responded w i t h such promptness and good-nature as to lay themselves
liable to many future calls, they declared that they were doing, think-
ing, planning, nothing of sufficient moment to be worthy of notice
in T o D R A G M A . That spoke well f o r their respect f o r the magazine,
but would have proven a sad blow to me, except f o r the blessed fact
that I f o u n d in those same letters, answers to the very questions w i t h
which other girls have been bombarding me. There was a delight-
f u l unanimity along one line. Everybody mentioned Convention
either stating her intention of attending or her desire to do so, and
invariably asking, " D o you know who is going?" Here are some
of the facts which I read between the lines.

M y r t l e Cunningham T o m p k i n s declared that she and her
Doctor-man shouted over my agonized plea f o r news, and the said
man was quoted as saying, " Tell her you are doing nothing but taking
care of a good-for-nothing husband, two bad boys, and a tin automo-
bile." Myrtle concurs in all that, with the exception of the
adjectives. However, I happen to know that i n that more or less
isolated community there is a Study Club (federated, too) which owes
its inception to M r s . Tompkins, and f o r which she has planned and
directed the work d u r i n g the past two years. But does she take any
credit to herself? N o t she! A l l she says is, " I ' m learning more
history than I ever learned in college." Myrtle is going to Conven-
tion, I ' m glad to say.

I thought of what Coila Anderson's community demands of her,
when Margaret Rogers wrote that out in the honest-to-goodness coun-
try she is lending her college-trained faculties and the richness of her
college experience to the direction of a literary society, composed
of girls in a radius of nine miles from Pulaski. Margaret, too,
teaches a Sunday school class, " a l l ages f r o m three to thirteen" and
she is not going to Convention because i t is a physical impossibility
f o r her to be i n two places at one and the same time, and she is
preengaged f o r a "back-to-nature" camping t r i p at the same date.

B. A r m s t r o n g insisted that she is a day laborer, but I ' m rejoiced
to say she is going to take a f e w days f r o m her work at the state