How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl

usan, who lives in Akron, to come here and make us a visit. You know she's Grandmother's only sister, and I think it will do them both g

oked at her furtively and with a puzzled expression of countenance, but that lady acted not the least embarrassed. It seemed strange to Et

ma," and went up to

tation. It must be that it was Aunt Susan's money she was after, and why? Suddenly, it all came to the girl-it was to get

zed that it was all being done to benefit herself, she could feel nothing but pity for the woman whose one thought in life was for her daughter. She thought: "She will even tell people that I am A

te half of her fortune at least. If it serves to help your mother socially, why Susan wouldn't care-she'd only laugh. Susan's very keen and sharp, my child. No

r had that in her mind when she asked her here for a visit. Oh, I couldn't endure it. Ple

ld almost forgive your mother for any duplicity in it so long as she can come, for Susan and I are growing old and it will not be many years before

g her, "and she is your own sister. She must be like you. But ther

oung voices, "we're coming u

Grandmamma's room," repl

ce-"here Dorothy Kip has joined a new Society called the 'Camp Fire Girls,' and from the fir

rls are in her Sunday School class. She likes them and insists upon their becoming members. Isn't it ridiculous, Mrs. Hollister, that just because these girls are poor they're not considered fit to associate with us by some mothers, and I mean mine. As if I was half as good as the

and Mother wouldn't allow her to speak of it even. She says it's like the Salvation Army, and such ridiculous nonsense.

tcott, Dorothy Kip, and two or three more of Ethel's young f

e join," said Connie, "and

, "I was sure Mother wo

s to be the

the yellow lace falling over her still pretty hands. "I wish we had known of s

e and use surgeon's plaster. They can cook at least two meals, mend stockings, sew, etc., and keep one's self free from colds and illness. They sleep in the open, and my! what fine health it gives a girl, and it makes a perfect athlete of her. She can cook and bake, market, and know just how to choose meats and vegetables. Sh

girls. I'm to be a parlor ornament,"

"how desolate the home furnishings w

ever position a girl occupies if she fills

ge and magnificent establishment," said Nann

ried her eyes on her Gra

ut in a camp and sitting around the fire telling

to use slang. You go ahead and wish hard for what you want and you'll get it. I always do. Say, don't you know tha

y on her tongue, and the family laughed at and petted her. In their eyes everything she did was perfect. She was a general favorite at school, but Madame La Rue declared that she wo

oing in for?" she asked

t's babies!" Ev

llars per. I'm going to take thirty-five for rent and the boys will help me furnish. Then I'm going to beg my friends for contributions and open a Day Nur

girls. "You couldn't get any ser

wo-room-and-bath apartment. She's old and hasn't much to do and she has enough to live on, so she's offered to come; and I'm going to spend just ten dollars on myself each month in place of sixty for candy and soda and such nonsense. No one knows of it

Dorothy," said Mrs. Hollister, "and

the mothers worked. So I made up my mind I could take ten little ones anyway. Then the mothers' four cents will be forty cents a day. That will pay fo

you'll succeed," said the

d herself for what sh

er dreamed you'd all come forward. You're certainly sports,

it may be called 'The Kip Day Nursery' and each of you girls here may be lady managers. They all

, you are," and the girl kissed

n her birthday by her son John, but she couldn't resist giving it. She could do without the scarf, and ten do

d until dusk. They talked as freely bef

there wasn't some way by which she could get

dmother; "you certainly need the c

New York. You meet the very same people and I never cared for the water as I care for inland

replied Mr