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“Oh, but I detest objects,” broke in Madeline, hastily. “If you’re going to have an object I shall really have to resign.”

“But Madeline,” protested Betty, “we must have that, you know. What’s the use of a club without one?”

“Gives me a chance to wear a pin,” answered Babe promptly.

“Don’t you think,” ventured Roberta timidly, “that ‘The Merry Hearts’ would be a good name for us?”

“Splendid! Fine! Just the thing!” chorused everybody at once.

“Now Betty Wales,” shouted Madeline in triumph, as soon as she could be heard above the din, “can’t you see that an object isn’t at all necessary? ‘The Merry Hearts’ needn’t do a thing but enjoy themselves.”

“Well then, that’s an object, isn’t it?” retorted Helen, rushing gallantly to Betty’s defense. “Having a good time is an object just as much as sending missionaries to China.”

“I suppose it is,” confessed Madeline, resignedly. “Anyhow, I can’t hope to win an argument against the prod. of the logic class and a member of Philosophical, so I give up.”