The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-01
uancook County Girls Make
Merry on Tho shore Of Lake
x.o,<uk at Thslr Camp at
LsI<svisw Club.
ALL SORTS OF STUNTS
49,. IA Nothing Dull for 4 Minute
ov.r There, and II 10 Going on
Until Next Tues-
day.

Eorty girls 0I0 oAioieu ~
.rsyiew training camp this week.
Ds @T'ney're a poppy buncn. and every
4. delighted with them said one
- The camp leaders today.
crac,al features Of this weeks &C
.,,Jt,es are tho playground lectures
u w., Inv Miss Pearl Urban, the story
!a,,,ng class conducted by Miss Won
ale Murphey and tho arrival OF a
seu swimming teacher, Miss Elsie
Toskins Of Quincy.
Don't make people play games
rhen they're tired: it takes all the
slsssure out Of the sport" Miss
Urban told her class today In her
lecture. Then she gave tho girls
.ome technical knowledge on twelve
STerent games, explaining each one
- she came to 1t. When supper was
.rer the playground class practiced
,hese games on the lawn, thus put.
sug their newly acquired knowledge
INTO use.
The games which the girls are
,,ught belong in the ffty-seven
rsriety list. Some OF them are
specially suitable to little children,
others attractive to near-grown ups
and some OF them fitted for large
Uoups Of persons to play and an
eiher type for small numbers.
Like to Be Mermaids.
Swimming is still one of the big
things at the camp. Miss Hoskins
came this week to assist Miss
Eutenener in this part Of the work
and both of them are finding plenty
' 10 do along their special lines.
Thursday. William Aleshire. the
camp father, chaperoned the swim.
ming class and none of the girls in
the water had more fun than he. His
laughs and shouts were heard above
even those of the girls as he watched
The mermaids splash and duck.
The special stunts which the camp
srs pull of in the dining room on
certain nights have been fine this
' week.
The "alimentary canal" was an
unique production. The canal con-
sisted Of long ladder laid on the
( floor over which the girls would
walk Ice cream. pickles. sardines,
salads and candy all went down the
alimentary canal, alias ladder, and
we're conquered by gastric juice"
The last thing to go down the canal
was pie-and where pie conquered
gastric juice" somebody said 1t
wasn't pie like mother used to make,
but the sort brides made.
What Girls Can Be.
Curfew shall not ring tonight, was
another farce put on; one girl read
the poem while others acted out the
story converting themselves into
lovers, maidens, sections, high hills,
suns or garden benches whenever
the occasion demanded it.
A Royal Romance, a three-act
comedy, and mock wedding were
stunts given also.
Upon several occasions, the girls
have had worth while musical pro
grams which they arranged them
selves.
The camp leaders have been work
ing the townships in Hancock county
This week boosting the big come
oack picnic which takes prace next
tuesday at the camp and IS open to
eVeryone, though especially planned
lor the girls who have attended the
camp
five Fort Madison girls are at the
camp this week. One OF them, Louise
bennett, is summer guest of her
Handfather, Charles Doerr. She is
little Californian and Is having a
IN aae time over at the camp. She
ikes to swim in Lake Keokuk, she
ays, even IL it isn't as big as her
racine. ocean. Miss Louise is the
asughter Of Mrs. Charles l. Bennett
y Los Angeles. Mrs. Bennett is also
Fort Madison for the summer.