Page 11 - To Dragma November 1924

TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 7

I loved the lycee in Versailles. I had three young French
girls as room-mates who were very attractive and vivacious.
Always we went to bed at 9:30, and got up at 6:30, to take r i -
diculous setting-up exercises. When we came in at night we had
to take our shoes down to the basement, and put on bed room slip-
pers before we were allowed to dance in the parlor f o r an hour.
And then Madame would collect all thirty of us, read us selected
items from the newspaper, f o r the girls were strictly forbidden
to have newspapers in their possession—they might read the
murder stories—, and then she'd proceed to scold! We were
treated as youngsters, and really, we got used to it. Every night
the mistress used to tuck us in bed, and kiss us good night be-
fore she went to bed. M y room-mate Henriette was an original
little thing—she convulsed me one day by getting the ther-
mometer and sticking it on the hot radiator so that she could
demonstrate to the mistress that she had a high fever, and couldn't
possibly go to school. Fever was an innocuous and highly ac-
ceptable excuse i f one wanted to cut classes and stay home. A n d
then I ' l l never forget walking to school two by two in a long
band of two hundred and f i f t y girls down the immense Avenue
de Paris toward the old palace. I t all seems dishearteningly f a r
removed f r o m the life that I have since resumed in America.

Grace E . O'Brien. Tau.

W h e n ? — J u n e 3 0 - J u l y 6, 1926.
Where?—Radisson Inn.
W i l l you be there?