l, and how are we going to help?' That's just what I want to talk
about. We pride ourselves on being practical at the College. Some of us
thought we might start a new society, to be called 'The Rainbow League.'
It's a sort of 'Guild of Helpers,' and we want to do all kinds of jolly
things to help in the town, something like our old 'Knitting Club' and
'Soldiers' Parcel Society,' only of course different. We could give
concerts and make clothes for war orphans, and toys for the hospitals,
and scrap-books for crippled children. There are heaps of nice things
like that you'll just love doing. It's called 'The Rainbow League,'
because a rainbow was set in the sky after the Flood, to help people to
remember, and we want, in our small way, not to let the Great War be
forgotten, but to do our bit to help with the future of the race.

"I'm not any great hand at speaking or explaining, so I want you each to
take a copy of the rules of 'The Rainbow League' and to read them
quietly over at home. Then any girl who likes to join can put her name
down. All the Sixth want to become members, and I hope lots of others
will too. That's all I have to say. I'm afraid I'm rather a bungler, but
you'll understand everything if you read the papers. I'm going to give
them out now."

Lispeth, very red in the face, came down from the platform, and, aided
by her fellow-prefects, began to distribute papers right and left to the
girls as they filed from the benches. Amongst the others, Ingred took
hers, and put it in her pocket. She did not care to discuss it with the
crowd, so retired to a corner of the hostel garden, and, amid a shower
of falling autumn leaves, opened the typewritten sheet, and read as
follows:

The Rainbow League

A Society for Schoolgirls who wish to help in the great work of
reconstruction after the War

WHAT THE LEAGUE HOLDS

That every soul is of infinite and equal value, because all are the
children of one Father.

That every girl must do her best to help all other girls, and to
advance the Sisterhood of Women.

That woman's greatest and strongest weapons are love and sweetness.

That by conscious radiation of unselfish love to her fellow-beings,
a girl may undoubtedly raise the moral atmosphere of the world
around her.

That every girl, however young, can help this glorious old country,
and that, joined together for good, the schoolgirls of a