How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl

leisure is fully occupied. At present I know with whom she associates. As I understand it, these girls form themselves into a Company with a Guardian or Leader. They wear cert

these girls. It teaches them to take care of themselves. They ver

te girl like Ethel doi

contract pneumonia or c

o unless by the advice of a physician. Then for one month

Why, any girl can do that wi

in deep water, paddle or row twenty miles in any five days; they learn to sail all kinds of boats for fifty miles

me nervous. Now what good is

and keep house, how to take care of babies,-and don't you see if a girl marries a poor man she can be a help to him and not a hindrance? Then they have to be kind and courteous, to loo

rl learn to cook and market unless she intends to marry a poor man, and I don't propose that Ethel shall ever do that. And as for being so athletic, I don't approve of that either. It's all right

and when several Boy Scouts while camping out were drowned, the Government (think of it) sent out a gunboat-sent it up the Thames to bring their bodies back

uardian,' as they call it, your sympathies are all with the organization. But to me it's like marching w

cout' movement, don't you? Why, boys

had to wash and iron, wipe her floors, or do any menial work. Were such a thing to happen, I hope I shall not live to see it, that's all. No, kindly drop the subject. Ethel is but sixteen. She'll have all she can do to finish at Madame La Rue's by the time she's eighteen. You know how hard your Uncle Archie works to obtain the money to pay for Ethel's education, and how I manage to keep up appearances on so little. It's all for Ethel. It means everything for her future. She must have the best associates, and when she graduates go with the fashionable set. We are very poor and she must marry well and hav

amp Fire Girl is going to be such an improvement over the ordinary girl. She's going to revolutionize young women and make of them useful members of society-not frivolous butterflies-and it will be carried into the poore

nd they too do much good, I am told. Yet I shouldn't care to have my Ethel become a m