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ticipantl in the wager.
nothing unusual for
tie ycung debutantes
he front steps of the
and conspire in a
‘ho’wzlate bonbons.
aidedly unusual for
‘ incident to become the
. muliizng the careers of
nuns; debutantes. And
» 1' that as the
result. of that 1: .flizlg on the
front steps of a wax: wannarjg home
90.000 other young Whine: whose homes
are west of the Mississippi River should
be joined together in a great organization
which is teaching them new ideals and
giving them a new twist to their romantic
outlook upon life as it uniolds beiore the
.V .3; American girl of to—day. And yet
that .5 just what has happened. because
limb and Grace Brown and Cecile Fran-
ch made a bet four year: ago of a box
and?
L». wager might be regarded still a!
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unlit" . led. yet two of the you; roman
mac 2;. their minds to forfeit their
claims and arbitrarfiy awarded it to the
third because—but that's a pin“ 0‘ the
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The organization these three girls do“
wu that at the Camp Fire Girls. All
three were attracted to it because 0! it!
recognition of the need of beauty and
“:1th in the in. 'or the growing sirl-
All three law in thin out minim:
Movement a chance to build up healthy
women. homo linker: find not home
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Min Ruth Brown. and to the right Miss
Cecile Francisco. the other two pan.
well as their hands. Their
wager was—4hr“ one 0! them
could bring more young
women into the Camp Fire
iold than the others. So each
started out in her own way
to win the bun-bones.
There was nothing strange
in three debutantes thinking
of girls as girls all over the
world and nat just as Mary.
Ellen and M ille. Men always
like to say to women that
they cannot maintain a con-
versatibn which centers
around an idea. Women can
13”! only of personalities— of this man
and that girl or the wl-iow on the next
street. To refute such statement let it
be known that'Rnth. Grace and Cecile
talked that twilight only of girls—girls
as dreamers, girls as builders. girls al
thinking. healthy bodieu women.
“Well. I’ve something to propose.’ Ruth.
the youngest and not yet out of college.
said. “M's lay a wager now that the
trst one of us who does the biggest thing
for girls gets—gets—-—'
"Don't be rash.” her sister Grace can-
tioned.
"Make it a box of fresh chocolate bou-
bons." Cecile Francisco smiled. Ruth'l
hankering for sweets was a favorite
teasing point.
"I m thirsty now.”
Grace declared, and
thus was the wager
concluded that twi-
light in Detroit.
At this print you
mav find a parallel to
this story in a fairy
tale which tells of the
three youths who
wished to gain a king-
dom at d incidentally a
princzss. It was an-
nounced that the lady
would choose that man
who achieved the most
. the good of the
lung} :m. T h 9 three
‘ utrs ccntr red to get
ld cf a magic apple.
magic carpet and a
mac'c flute. All 0!
whiz: they used. you
may remember. The
apple with which to
things everywhere at that mo—
ll
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see all
meat: the magic carpet to take its owner
de luxe to any destination in less time
than it takes to develop flat feet in the
subway and the magic flute with which
to heal all wounds and make well the
sick.
in these days of omniscient flapper:
with tail-y tales selling below par one
would hardly believe that the magic
apple. magic carpet and magic flute were
still with us.
But—4! you will believe—the three
debutantee entered the race for that box
or bon-bcns as fully equipped as the three
ycuths ionnd themselves back in the days
when princesses were. It was only after
they had actively entered the ranks of
Camp Fire leaders that they discovered
the: each had one of the three mgic
devices.
Ruth found that she had the magic
carpet after she had left Detroit for
Seattle and built up a membership at
three thousand Camp Fire Girls from a
meager seventy in just two years.
“Yours the hon-bone.” wired her sister
Grace irom Detroit. even as Cecile Fran-
cisco special delivered a letter from Kan-
sas City paying: “Will you take them in
' individual wrappers?”
And Ruth wired back: ' ,
“Wait.”
When next beard tram Both had left
on her miraclePenian for Yahoo Inland
-—junt outside of Seattle and now one of
“Storyw Hour" among the Vo'estern Carr.~
Fire Girls. Rightv—Miaa Grace Brown.
one of the three young women who
wagered a box of candy she could
do benefiting apectacuLnr for
the Camp Fire Girls—and did.
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7 Three Girls of
the show places of the West. OD her re
tum the world was given to understand
that the Camp Fire Girls of Seattle were
the oWners o! the largest camp {or girls
in the L'nlted States and had now among
them the dower ‘ights of $40.00) worth of
pro :erty. tSlnce the improvement of the
ls and by the Camp Fire Girls the prop-
erty has gone up in rainefil The camp
now has twenty cottages. a mile oi water-
front, rowboats. canoes. one hydroplane
and three adopted children, known as
Rosemary and the Twins.
Again. Grace and Cecile held up the
Sign of the box oi *n-bons and again
Ruth refused~thls time from Spokane.
Wash... where she was organizing the lo-
cal council. Her magic carpet holds good
for any State in the Union—not neces
sarily in God's country only.
Her reply was:
“Wait another year."
And then it was revealed that Grace
had the magic apple. She could see all
over Detroit [without the aid of a daily)
and act accordingly. The result of her
:pple disueveries is the most active and
beneficial form of Americanimtion now
extant. It is that Americanization which
not only gives but receives An Ameri-
can born Camp Fire Girl learns how to
cook five dishes the little Syrian born
Camp Fire Girls teach her. In return.
the American born Camp Fire Girl
teaches the Syrian girl how to dance five
American dances or to sing five Amerl~
can songs. A group of Hungarian Camp
Fire Girls translated folk songs and lulla—
hiee which their mothers and grandmotlr
ers very graciously sang for them while
at their household tasks.
Prating internationalism and getting
blue in the face mouthing the words
"melting pot“ is not the way of Grace
Brown. Here the way a nation might
adopt to its best advantage: Who knows
but this form of Americanizatlon may be
just an indication of the abilities of this
girl as a lawyer, for she expects to be
admitted to the bar within the year.
Grace Brown has organized the mo.
negro girls of Detroit until to-day they
form the largest group of negro Camp
Fire Girls- in any part of the country.
The. big single achievement came with
the Fords giving the Camp Fire Girls a
community house in Highland Park. just
beyond Detroit. known now as the W1:
want.“ Here the girls learn to keep the
seven points of the Camp Fire law of;
Seek beauty, give service, pursue knowl-
edge. be trustworthy. hold on to health.
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:nie Remarkable Result.
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As soon as t ‘e suc '
Grace came to the ears of her
younger sister in Seattle and
Cecile Francisco in Kansas
City. the telegraph wires
trembled with:
"Yours the laurels and the
hon-bons—"
Grace, blushin;
wired back:
"Wait till we hear tron: Cecile. Decide
at National Conference in New York."
From Cecile Francisco came no com-
munique whatever. She was busy, she
admitted in grudgingly small letters.
Camp Shawnee at Grandview, a distance
from Kansas ity, took a bit of her time
and energy. Beyond that. neither Grace
profusely,
nor Ruth could get anything more. But
then. that was the way of Cecile. No
fanfare. no trumpets to herald her ac.
compllshments. Whatever was on her
mind she went and did. And no one
knew. until after the deed was done.
Came the joyous day when the East.
West. North and South mothers and the
others gathered together at the opening
of the National Conference of Camp Fire
Girls at the Russell Sage Foundation.
The roll was called—a very pleasant
method. as I recall. where each member
as her name was mentioned. rose and
said: "How do you do?" to everybody
else in the room. And Ruth Brown. not
looking a night older than the twilight
when she odered up the box of sweets.
rose and smiled at every one out of her
‘lue eyes and said:
"How do you do?”
And Grace Brown, built more sturdily
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than her sister with a definite dimple in
her chin. also rose and said:
"How do you do?"
But when the name of Cecile Francisco
was called, a square built blondish young
‘woman appeared from a far corner a!
the room and shyly said:
"I'm not Miss Francisco. but how do
you do? Miss Francisco was unable to
come at the last moment and sent me
instead. She-she—I don’t know whether
I'm supposed to tell. but I know you'll
want to know after you know—just why
Miss Francisco couldn’t come on to the
conference."
And then. in that graphic way which
only sincerity and simplicity of expres- ‘
sisn can give. the substitute from Kansas
City told of the sacrifice of Cecile Fran-
(:isco. A year ago she volunteered to give
her blood to any patient in need of it at
the Christian Church Hospital in Kansas
City. But the call for her
.21‘. not come until a week
before the conference open-
when she told
she could now maku
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She gave two pint!
of her blood to a man who was a
total stranger to her. And then when
they pressed upon her the money in re
turn for her heroism she took the sum
and gave it to the Near East Relief.
The erWn eyes of Grace sought thl
ones of her sister as their hand:
" a grip of understanding.
good her oh’er.
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t just like Cecile Francisco?"
ded in one breath.
s it happened that the same mail
carried the national honor for life
from the headquarters of thl
Girls to Coolie Francisco
it. a box or ires‘n chocolate
5.33 it happened that Cecile Fran—
to the Brown sisters:
for the bmi-‘ncns. Don't de-
serve the-m. realL. Can’t have them in!
til health chart finished."
“'hich translated from the Camp Fir! '
vernacular means that Cecile Francisco
was keeping the health chart of thl
Camp Fire Girls and could not eat any
candy for the next three months.
But never minduthere'll be plenty ol
sweets for Cecile Francisco when the
wedding bells ring out as they will soon
—-very soon.
Searching for Kentucky’s
Long Lost Silver Mines
HE arrival of a party of Indians in
the mountains of Kentucky from
Oklahoma m revived a. hundred
and :orty year search for the silver mines
discovered by John Swift in 1761. ' From
that time to 1769 Swift made a. number
of trips into that section of the country,
returning after each trip to his home in
North Carolina with a large quantity of
silver. , . . ..
Swift, finally driven out of Kentncb
and killed by hostile Indians, left very
meager information regarding his jour-
neys and the places where he had hidé
den sums of money; The most minute
description is that contained in a
memorandum which states that “on tho
First of September, 1769, we left be-
tween 22.000 and 30.00011on and
crown on a large creek running near a
south some. (nose to the spot 'wo
marked our names (swift. ileum
flunday and others) on a beech too—
with compass, square and troweL No
great distance from this place we left
$15,000 of the same kind, marking three
or tour trees with markers. Not far from
these We left the prize near a forked
white oak, and about three feet under-
ground and laid two long stones across
it, marking several stones close about
it At the forks of Sandy, close by the
fork, is a small rock: it has a spring in
one end of it. Between it and {small
branch we_ hid a prize under the ground:
it was valued at $6,000. We likewise
left $3.000 buried in the rocks of the
rock house.” ‘-
A tew years ago a bar 0! pure silver
was found near a mill in Carter county.
Several years ago a party of Indiana
visited Wolfe county and made its» way
intothohilla. The lndiantrackawero
hallowed to a small creek by the side
ofwhichwasndoepexenvationinwhlch
nbelvybodylndrsted. Thelndiam
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