Show CAMP FIRE GIRLS Junior High School Girls Learn How to Live in Outdoor Camps In spite of eight-cylinder television electric dishwashers and America continues to be a nation of If you doubt visit a Camp Fire Girls camp this Out in you would find a group of junior high school girls living In a primitive 20 minutes by boat from the main camp where the younger girls In Gypsy the pioneer Blue members of Camp Fire think breakfast cooked on hoho stoves tastes better than In spite of hazards as noses and the only permanent installations are a storage tool-shed and The campers bring along chow lashing cord and sleeping With the Forest Ranger's uey cut down trees from which stools and tables are small-stem branches become mattresses under their bed The girls also make other camp craft necessities such as sunken reflector stone-lined baking drainage systems and trash During their stay at Gypsy Haven the girls cook their own meals and make friends with the area's wild A doe and her fawn visit the camp daily and chipmunks come up to eat from the girls' IN DES seven lucky Horizon Club members of senior high school accompanied by three last summer paddled a war canoe 35 miles down the Moines Sandbars and rapids added thrills to the trip which involved five steady hours of hard When an experienced camper In reaches the ripe old age of she gets to live in a unit of An added zest goes with outdoor cooking in N. where Camp Fire Girls prepare frogs-leg dinners from frogs they catch Even Blue who are and the youngest members of Camp Fire are imbued with pioneer They love to cook on tin can stoves or on sticks over an open Their pride in their own efforts produces an enthusiasm that occasionally far exceeds As one little San Diego Blue Bird said last year while she munched happily on a badly bread wish my mother could cook like In a recent issue of The Camp Fire Ernest F. director of Outdoor Activities in gave Camp Fire campers two rules to follow when The first Is to look and listen If they become stop to collect look for and listen for sounds of automobiles or running The second suggestion is always to carry with them a Lost Kit of emergency The which each girl can assemble should include a small snare wire and fishing bouillon paper and and razor All these articles fit Into a cigarette-type plastic case or a typewriter ribbon either of which can be waterproofed with nail polish or shellac cut 50 per cent with |