CAMP-FIRE GIRLS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 11

CAMP-FIRE GIRLS.

AN AMERICAN MOVEMENT. What is a Camp-fire Girl? We learn from the "Outlook ,, (New York) that she is a "girl Boy Scout,' only sho exists for the defence of the home by being trained as a home-maker. The Camp-fire Girl movement—one ! of its principal leaders is Mrs. Luther Halsey Giilick—unites girls in a comradeship with throe grades. First, tho girl is a. wood-gatherer. Sho has to learn to' repeat the laws:—Seek beauty, givo service, pursue knowledge,; be trustworthy, hold on to health, glorify work, be happy. The wood-gatherer is entitled to wear the ring symbolic of tliß degreo and the blouse, a modified "middy," with the emblem embroidered on the left nrm. It takes at least three months to advance to the degree of fire-maker. And those-are some of the obligations of tho fire-niaker:— "To help to prepare and serve, together with the other candidates, at least two meals for meetings of tho Camp-fire. Two meals.prepared in the home without advice or help may bo substituted. "To mend a pair of stockings, a knitted undor-garment, and hem a dish towel. "To keep a' written, classified account of all money received and spent for one mouth. ■ "To tie.a square knot five times in succession correctly and without hesitation. "To sleep with Dpen windows or out of door 3 for at least one month. "To refrain from sodas and candies between meals for at least one month. "To name the chief causes of infant mortality in summer. ."To know what to do in the following emergencies:—Clothing on fire; person in deep water who cannot swim, both in summer and' through ice in winter; open cut; frosted foot; fainting-." The Fifeimalcer who has won a sufficiency, of'"honours," for euch things as health, home-craft, hand-craft, and patriotism, "strotehes forward" to tho highest degree—thatrof Torch-bearer.