later, when friendship, sympathy, and assistance have made bright some dark day, we begin to learn; every initiation becomes more solemn, more impressive, frought with more meaning and deeper. Our common aim,-the honor and welfare of Delta Gamma,-forms a bond which cannot be broken. In striving for the ideal of our own pledge our friendships and sympathies are broadened to include not only Delta Gamma sisters, but also college sisters who have, for various reasons, no fraternity bonds. "For he who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare." You have heard, perhaps of the elderly maiden who, when a friend attempted to offer sympathy because of her single state, replied tartly, "I have no need whatever of a man; I have a lamp that smokes, a parrot that swears, and a cat that stays out nights." We often are satisfied with substitutes; we pick up a few specimens of shining quartz-social distinctions or pleasant surroundings, but do we always dig deep for the exemplary womanhood and the ideal friendships of our Delta Gamma pledge.?

Emerson says. "A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature." And what greater masterpiece than a Delta Gamma friend? "We have received nothing better from the immortal gods, nothing more delightful."

So here's to the greatest masterpiece of all-the Delta Gamma friends, Our Pledge.

TOASTMISTRESS:-In the kindergarten, the outer circle means harmony, one-ness. A naughty child is put outside this circle to some dark corner, is no longer "at one" with his playmates. Since the banishment of our weak children to the tender mercies of the cold, cold world, perfect harmony exists in our outer circle. I propose the toast "The Outer Circle."

Response by Mrs. Jane Tracy Fabian of Lambda.

"Where the brook and river meet."

Madame Toastmistress, Sisters in Delta Gamma:Longfellow's poem, from which the motto for my toast is taken runs for three short stanzas thus:

"Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes,

In whose orbs a shadow lies

Like the dust in evening skies!

"Thou whose looks outshine the sun,
Golden tresses, wreathed in one,
As the braided streamlets run!

"Standing with reluctant feet,

Where the brook and river meet,

Womanhood and childhood fleet!"

The brook and the river are exemplified in Delta Gamma by the active student chapter and the alumnae world respectively; and here in this Convention and at this banquet table the two most happily meet.

In the hills and meadows, a few miles from this Convention place with its sweet fraternal associations, a small stream takes its rise, and, gradually developing in power as it flows, is finally known to the geography of the state by the suggestive name of Sugar River. From what we have seen of the crystaline character and saccharine qualities of Omega Chapter here at Madison, during the past few days, we are prepared most cheerfully and cordially to grant that Omega, from the sparkling brook represented in its active chapter to the stately river for which its alumnae stand, is in every respect worthy of being known as the Sugar River of Delta Gamma.

The geography of Winconsin also shows that the Sugar joins the Pecatonica and finally flows into the Rock river down in the state of Illinois. That the Pecatonica stands for the male contingent with which the life of Omega's graduate membership is ultimately united, I am not prepared to state; certainly I cannot believe, from the serene and cheerful faces of the alumnae present, that their married lives are typical of the stony fords of Rock river. In this respect, the map should be changed; so that from the point where the Rock and the Sugar meet down to where there united waters empty into the Mississippi, the stream should be known as the Sugar all the way.

The life of the active student girl is pictured in the course of the brook which Tennyson has so graphically painted:

"I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,

I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles,

"With many a curve my banks I fret

By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set

With willow-weed and mallow.

"I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever."

The student experience in rushing through recitations, slipping between threatened conditions, and getting by "quizzes" and "exams❞ is vividly portrayed thus:

"By thirty hills I hurry down,

Or slip between the ridges,

By twenty thorps, a little town,

And a half a hundred bridges."

We see the social whirl, the occasional conquest, and the little honors which grace the current of student life in the following lines:

"I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.

"And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me as I travel,

With many a silvery waterbreak

Above the golden gravel.

"And draw them all along and flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever."

As the subject assigned to me, "The Outer Circle," doubtless refers to the alumnae, I am supposed to discuss the river, rather than that fascinating theme the brook, to which Tennyson has done such beautiful justice.

There are seventeen chapters which now unite their purifying and ennobling alumnae currents to form the Delta Gamma watershed of this continent. Delta Gamma ideals and activities are thereby diffused into the intellectual life and into the home development of no small portion of the United States; and the brooklets and the rivers are multiplying in number and increasing in breadth and strength and sparkling purity as the years go by. The beauty of Delta Gammaism is, that wherever it flows,