ary and treasurer. There was
to be no special day set aside for meetings. A meeting might be called
at any time at the united request of three members. The sole object of
the club was to extend a helping hand to the young women who were making
praiseworthy efforts to put themselves through college. The foremost
duty of the society would be to ascertain the names of these girls and
offer them pecuniary assistance. Arline had written her father for the
promised check for five hundred dollars, which would be deposited in the
bank in Gertrude Wells's name as soon as it arrived.

"I might as well tell you now that I wrote and asked Pa for a check in
spite of what Grace said," confessed Elfreda rather sheepishly.

"I might as well confess that I mentioned the club idea to Mother," said
Miriam. "I didn't ask her for a check, but I wouldn't be astonished if
she sent one in her next letter."

"You two girls are traitors to the cause," laughed Grace. "Perhaps you
will be disappointed."

"I won't," asserted Elfreda boldly. "Pa might as well help us as any one
else. I told him so, too."

"The important question is what can we do to earn money for our cause?"
asked Grace.

"We might give a play," said Miriam Nesbit. "Anne can star in it. I
should like to have the Overton girls see her at her best."

"I don't wish to be seen 'at my best,'" protested Anne. "I want the
other girls to have a chance, too. Why not give a vaudeville show? Grace
and Miriam can dance. Elfreda can give imitations. There are plenty of
things we can do. We will advertise the show in all the campus houses,
and each one of us must pledge ourselves to sell a certain number of
tickets. I think we would be allowed to use Music Hall for the show, and
if we could sell tickets enough to fill it, even comfortably, it would
mean quite a sum of money for our treasury. We might charge fifty cents
for admittance, or, if you think that is too much, we might put the
price down to twenty-five cents."

"I think we had better charge fifty cents," said Elfreda shrewdly. "It
will be as easy for those who come to pay fifty cents as to pay
twenty-five. We might as well have the other quarter as Vinton's or
Martell's."

"Elfreda, you are a brilliant and valuable addition to this society,"
commended Arline. "I agree with you. We are likely to reap almost as
many half dollars as quarters."

"We might give an act from one of Shakespeare's plays," remarked
Gertrude Wells dou