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activities, we hardly have time to sleep or eat. By the way, I suppose
you are a l l observing meatless and wheatless days?

The girls here seem more interested in college activities this year
than ever before, and we are quite proud to tell you that Merle
Huckleberry, one of our seniors, and Wilhelmina Hedde, a junior,
have both been chosen as members of "Tusitala," an honorary frater-
nity connected with the English Composition Department. We also
have some very good athletes, and expect to enter all the athletic
tournaments.

Women a l l over the university are very enthusiastic about Red
Cross work, and here at the house practically every girl is knitting
and most of us have filled Christmas boxes for De Pauw men who
are either i n France or in training camps here in America. Our
faculty dinners have been very successful, so far, and we are really
becoming much better acquainted with some of our professors.

The afternoon of December 15th we gave a reception for our
chaperon, Mrs. Stella Stockbarger. We had the parlors decorated
in red and green, the shades drawn, and the lights slightly dimmed,
then some sprigs of mistletoe, some poinsettias, and an open fire gave
a real suggestion of Christmas. I n the dining-room we placed a
square table in the center, then gave it the appearance of a chimney
of the room by hanging "chimney" crepe paper from the edges to
the floor. We then covered the top with cotton, sprinkled with glis-
tening imitation snow, and on top of this placed a big hollowed-out
cake of ice from which two of the girls served lemon ice. Little
cakes iced, i n white with A O I I written in red across the top were
also a part of the refreshments. We gave sweet peas as favors.

The house looked very pretty and Christmas-like so we used the
same decorations for a little dance which we gave that night for some
girls whom we expect to rush next year. Our programs were white,
with A O I I painted i n red on the front, and red pencils. We
changed the cake of ice on the table for a big punch-bowl filled with
green punch in which red and green maraschino cherries were floating
about on top. For further refreshments we served green and white
brick ice cream with little green and white iced cakes. The party
was very successful and we met some very fine girls.

We are going to initiate Mary Thompson the eighteenth, and have
planned an inexpensive Christmas party afterward.

Now although we realize that Christmas f o r many of us will not
be a time of happy rejoicing as it has been heretofore, we send Christ-
mas greetings and best wishes for the coming year.

E D N A - J A N E GLENDINING, Chapter Editor.