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You must sleep some, of course, but seeing your old friends, Draco, Cassiopeia and Leo is fascinating enough to keep anyone but the most persistent sleepy heads awake. To tell the truth, most of us arc a little wakeful and it takes the experienced camper to sleep from nine until six. WHEN you have selected the place for your bed lie down on it to see if there are any bumps that need removing. Even a clod or pebble will feel like a Rocky Mountain by morning. Take anything bothersome out and then gather together enough sweet smelling grass or hay to lie on comfortably. It will soften the bumps and a three or four-inch thickness will keep out the damp which comes from the earth. Now first of all spread on the ground a large piece of oil cloth, the shiny side to the ground, or a piece of canvas or a poncho or a rubber sheet, or some old automobile curtains, not too highly prized by father. If you have none of these use a heavy horse blanket or a piece of old carpet. The ground sheet keeps the moisture from the grou nd out of your bed. For bedding you will want a comfort and one or two woolen blankets. Make your beds up AFTER a delightful night comes washing your face in cold water, and then breakfast, just as the sun is rising, the birds are singing and all the world is fresh and dewy. Choose something you like very much,—bacon and eggs, toast and milk with strawberries fresh from the garden or wild from the field , or you may be lucky enough to be near a stream where you can catch a fish for breakfast. One of you had better start the fire as soon as she gets up. Make it like the one in the picture of the two Dayton Girl Scouts, only your fire will be a little one, suited to the size of your meal. They are cooking for a whole patrol. While one of you is caring for your fire, the other one can arrange the strawberries on a big green leaf with little piles of white sugar to dip them in , and pour milk to wash them down. If you have caught that fish, now is the time to clean it so that it will be ready to cook just as soon as you have a bed of glowing coals. You will need the same kind of a fire for the bacon and eggs and toast. A sharpened green "A Girl Scout is a Friend to all and a Sister to every other Girl Scout" stick makes a splendid toaster for the bread. Before leaving your camp site pack up your bedding in neat rolls, and scour your dishes, pots and pans. Put out your fire, and leave everything shipshape, Girl Scout fashion, so you will love to come back and camp at this spot. One of our own Lone Girl Scouts from Ohio wrote this letter about her camping trip last year: "Dear Friend: I will tell you about my going camping for a day. I went a short distance from my home where there was a small woods. I found a clearing where there was no grass to build my fire. I took two logs and laid them near each other and made my fire between them. I cooked eggs and toasted bread. It surely tasted fine. I am going to try it again sometime." Be sure to write the story of your camping out in your Trail Book, but do write me about it too. Why not take a good picture of your camp and send it to me? If you want to and think you can go to a big Girl Scout camp this summer, write to me and I will send you the name of the camp nearest you. Louise Price, Camp Department. Name . _ Address County I am Slate years old. If you use the whistle , it is like the flash light only long and short blasts take the place of the flushes. The pauses are the same in all methods. Write to your captain about this adventure and send her a sentence in code to sec if she can read it. - . - . |.- I-- |. --.I . -- I. - I. - . I -..|| | HI Can you read this? May Puzzle Sentence: How do your gardens grow? At 6 and 7 or 9 out of 10 kept well? Margorp Erutan If you can f ind me paint me in your Nature Book. Cora kelson LONE «uu, SCOUT CAPTAIN , Flor Dei What is a flower Plucked, cast aside Dead in an hourl Nay, let it bide on the hillside Gift of a higher power. T. D.A.Cocknell. Both Dove ana Eagle A Camp HAVE just been watching a humming bird The bed was made, the room was f it, I dart in and out among the nodding blossoms By punctual eve the stars were tit ; of a clump of columbine which brings each year . The air was still, the water ran, a touch of red and gold to the gray boulders ¦ separately as that way of sleeping is more No need was there for maid or man, near my nature nook. Time and again he has comfortable and more healthful. Blankets for Where we put up, ray ass and I , thrust his slender bill into the nectar cup at the covers should be woolen, not cotton, though At God's green caravanseri. very tips of the flower spurs. These are indeed cotton ones may be used for sheets. Coyer Robert Louis Stevenson. horns of plenty. Have you seen other visitors your blankets with another ground sheet, with coining to the feast? A big bee is tumbling the waterproof side up this time. Half a dozen DID you have great fun comparing the num- about this minute among the tuft of golden or more blanket pins or large safety pins will ber of hours you sleep, your height and stamens which hang from the flower cup like the hold the edges of your blanket together and weight, with those given in the April issue? clapper of a bell. What can the bee want with Go over the Zflj^lfil keep you snug all night. A sweater or pillow Tenderfoot Girl Scouts, try to do this today. all this gold dust? Do you know? surface slip filled with hay or grass or leaves makes a It is one of the Second Class Adventures. There l They have both gone and my eyes HIÊBW good pillow. If you have pine needles, con- Write date in your Trail Book. If you wish a still linger to enjoy the beauty of the delicate sider yourself favored by the gods. If brother Health Record Book, send 10c. blossom itself. I see the five dainty doves or father has a large army poncho or two,—one circling as in a nest and it is easy to see why we for each of you—you can use one for the ground Signals in the Jvj'ght gave the gentle name of columbine to this sheet and covering of your bed. LOOK back over the trail to be sure you know flower ,—for columbine comes from the Latin One way to make a single poncho bed is to all the signs and signals that were in the word columba , which means a dove. But it has spread the covers out flat on the poncho, and March, April and May issues. Perhaps on your not always reminded poeple of gentle doves for then fold them in toward the middle, one by camping trip you can have fun sending messages there arc legends which associate it with lions, one, apple tart fashion. Turn the extra length with flash light or lanterns or whistles. If you and it is called the lion's herb, and its scientific under at the foot and hold fast with safety pins. use a flash, a short flash is a dot, a long flash a name is aquilegia which means an eagle. Can When done, button the poncho down the side. dash, make no pause between dots and dashes you see the eagle in your columbine? If you undress, tuck your day clothes out of the in the same letter. An interval the lengt h of There are other blossoms coming to my wild dew, or you will have nothing dry to put on in three dots comes between letters, of five dots flower garden and I wonder if you have the same the morning. Otherwise , you will take off your between words, and a longer pause at the end friends,—spring-beauties, buttercups all freshly XUuKRJp shoes, and any tight clothing, and then work of a message. If you use lanterns, put a light varnished for the spring—can any of you find mWw ^ igiyL your way into the bed from the top, and snuggle on the ground between your feet as a steady its nectar cup? Here is a secret for you. There down to enj oy the beauty of the night. point. Then for a dot, swing your lantern to are violets, too, yellow and white and purple, the right, for a dilsh to the left. but I will not tell you any more for I will let you name your own. Shall we see just how many Polish wild flowers we can make our friends this \ Mil summer? I should like to try it witli you, with a \j £MmSxF VI and perhaps it would be fun to have a Lone Girl Miss Cora Nelson. 1927 Scout wild flower "quest" with a nice surprise Girl Scouts, Incorporated, at the end of it. 670 Lexington Ave., Write down in your Nature Book the names New York City. of all the wild flower friends you make and all the interesting things you learn about them and I have read about the Lone Girl Scouts in THE FARMER'S WIFE and should like fro m them as you go along the trail. Remem- to know more about the organization. ber to save some seeds for Lone Girl Scout Please send me blanks so that you can Christmas presents. Next fall send in the check my qualifications for becoming a story of your summer's quest. Girl Scout. Bertha Chapman Cady LONE CURL Scour NATURALIST ! *t \3. dry cloth /MNBKMB.W iaHaMfi /^BTaVâTraVf l^ 1 uParaV - - Ir ""^ OiSdar \y Xi-Polish
(^taster ârm ômemaker (ôntest first nomination of a MASTER THE FARM HOMEMAKER reached THE FARMER 'S WIFE before the last copies of the April magazine were off the press. Interest in the plan is growing rapidly and we are busy here in the office getting in nominations and sending out the "work- sheets" to the women who have been nominated. This "work-sheet" is really an information blank which the women who are nominated by their neighbors are asked to fill out for the state judges. The first copy was prepared in THE FARMER'S WIFE office after consultation with extension leaders in three states. When this was ready it was sent out to a large group of people for criticisms and suggestions. They were so interested that 82 took time out of busy lives to study the work-sheet and to sit down and write their criticisms and suggestions. Thirty-nine of these were homemakers, practically all of them farm homemakers. So this work-sheet will be based on the thinking of approximately one hundred people scattered all over the United States, and will represent the ideas of these people as to what MASTER FARM HOMEMAKING really means. WISCONSIN homemaker, who A studied the plan with her husband, writes: "It will make every woman who reads it through think. She will reorganize in a number of 'spots' as time goes on, or I miss my guess. To me it is all so interesting that I thoroughly enjoyed going through it. The woman who fills it out but does not win will have enjoyed the work and profited thereby too." One of the men who went over the work-sheet (for we felt that it would be valuable to know what men think should be emphasized in honiemaking) makes the following comment: "I should like to see the outline so made up that it would bring out the most worthwhile things in the home; namely, the training of children and the cooperation between parents in making it a happy place in which to live." From Missouri comes the suggestion : "Somewhere in the work-sheet there ought to be a place for a definite expression of the woman's philosophy of life and her conception of what place wellrounded country living has in the genera l scheme of things. To my mind the important thing is, first , what does the woman herself think this business of living is all about; then , how nearly does she come to translating her ideas and ideals of life into living, allowing for handicaps beyond her control?" One of our thinking Minnesota farm carouses rjfnterest By BESS M. ROWE What kind of a neighbor has she been? . . . Is her family so trained that she can leave them at times when duty calls her elsewhere ? Has she had time to help a neighbor who was in need or to sit all night at a sick bed?" Most farm women realize that community honiemaking is quite as important as is individual honiemaking and one of them states this thought as follows: "True community spirit is just an over-How of love in the home—eager and anxious to share its blessings with others. The homemaker is responsible to a very great degree for this spirit in the home and what better way to judge her than by the quality of the product of the home? "The character, ideals and ability to realize these ideals of those who have grown , or are now growing, in her home should be a very good means of judging the homemaker. True, some children reflect no honor on their parents—neither do some kitchens." ANOTHER of the men who helped us work out this plan says; "What makes a home? Something about it that invites people to come there. May and do the children invite their playmates there ? Is it a hospitable home? Do the neighbors like to drop in ? If the children cannot have company, and the neighbors do not drop in of their own free will, you probably haven't a home, no matter how many other things you have." One of the leading professional women of the country, a woman whose work brings her into close contact with hundreds of homes, says: "To me, the greatest measure of success of a homemaker is the physical , mental , and emotional health of the children and of the husband. I should like to detect in the home the attitude of peace, comfort and happiness, which the farmer finds from a satisf ying home." AND this final comment from another farm woman in the Middle West: "I think your plan is wonderful and I'm all enthused about it all. I went over the whole plan twice and then I imagined I was a homemaker filling out the sheets and what a lot of fun 1 have had. 2 "What about the living room? I d like to see this room and see the famil y 1 there some evening, or is the family all - out having a good time elsewhere. Does 1 the family look to the home for good times, or do they have the good times 2 down town or perhaps in someone else's f home? The living room really speaks s of really living but we haven't said much 1 about it. Are we living with our children , r or is the school, the church , the movie, etc., left to manage and train them?" t Through these comments we have women suggests that the following thingss shared with you a little of the joy we have a bearing on master have had from these farm honiemaking: letters about the "Is this home a place MASTER FARM where the husband and HOMEMAKER work- grow n children love to sheets. They also give stay and bring their you a little idea of what friends? Are the friends it means to be chosen made welcome? . . . for this honor. Delco-Light will make your home a better p lace to live in •*•*"' ¦ V \tt i 7 "[... ¦ fl ^SfltfflHB-- &i BtâTaTaTaTaTaTaWHf * t yfflrKj^^Hffw S $$&J / ,"A ^âiBââTLMMlaaa ââ^KaâWaMa âaBlBMa ^ ft $$vw' Jr/y $ ^^^^HBTaBaTMHnfiEBsiiLB ^&aaifT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ âapaaaaaaaM j^BaraH IF a Delco-Light electric plant did nothing more than furnish plenty of electric light for the farm home, it would be a Godsend. But it does so much more than that! An electric washer, vacuum cleaner, electric iron, Frigidaire electric refrigeration—every electrical appliance designed to lighten the burden of household tasks is made available for your home when you have Delco-Light to furnish the electric current. A j i.1. A. - >i. n alnl at a cost that is And that isn t all. Jfcaw surprisingly low. By means of a D-L B |^ Water System , run See the neaT ftitM l^ ^ by Delco-Light, you JP»1H K. Delco-Light dealer, can have a plentiful AiYl^Mp Let him tell you supply of running what Del ^¦fflHUF co-Light water whenever and ^WBBpifei.. will do for your wherever you need f^m, *r~ ' home—how little it it. Water for the jl| flllPj will cost, how cheap- ^ kitchen, for toilet ^&*&Ebs' ly it will operate, and bath, for washing-plenty and how easily you can of water for every farm and pay for it on the General household need. Motors plan of deferred p y In short, a Delco-Light farm electric plant makes DELCo-LIGHT COMPANY possible for yOUr home all the Subsidiary of General Mo ors Corporation convenience of a city home— Dept. K-200 Dayton , Ohio DEPENDABLE DELCO-LIGHT FARM ELECTRICITY *
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