The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15
Interesting Days of Sunday School Camp for Girls at
 Beautiful Lake Winataska
Open Air Sports, Bible Study, Wholesome Food Camp Fire Councils, Swimming and Interesting Teachers t Make the "Al Fresco" Resort Boon to
 the Young People

l circumstances has been in the habit
 of alighting on his or her feet that
 beautiful lower pool that has a ground
 floor to alight on is the greatest com fort in life at Winnataska. The uppes
 pool with it's allurings depths for ex-
 perts. But the lower pool for all who
 wish they were experts, and who also
 wish the most fun that can be crowded
 into forty minutes' time with bright
 prospects for the future and a little
 fun in after-years The braves learn
 to swim under the most careful in
 structon of Miss Fulford and Miss | Blackburn, and never are they ad- mitted to the upper pool without being
 pronounced excellent swimmers. Even ! then a. guard is always at hand wha ', is prepared for any emergency.
 In the water, Miss Myra Batchelder is 1 the most fun. But she is the life of the camp at all times, and the braves look i upon her as their greatest joy If you have only seen Miss Batchelder in her
 office as the dignifieu general secretary of the Sunday School Association, you have only met her. You will not know her until you visit Winnataska. Her l lung capacity is amazing when she is
 in one of her moods to 'whoop up the | camp. While conducting her class in
 the school of methods she is recognized
 las the dignified leader we had met at ! headquarters, but on the playground
 she is always "our Miss Batch
 SING HER PRAISE
 The braves sing the prases~of Mrs. Ball. | lard too, and visit to camp wouldn' t l be complete without an hour in her n7- ture study class. She brought basket iof mushrooms over this afternoon, with
 a fat book full of pictures of other mush- rooms that might be conducive to indi- gestion if mixed indiscreetly with cream 1 sauce. During her talk mushrooms she added paren theses to introduce the birds that happened to come around our way. That reminds me-some of the l braves went on an early morning hike with Mrs. Steward and MT. Hamilton to visit the birds at breakfast MT. Ham, l ilton, you remember, is the naturalist who hasn't stopped being leased yet because somebody at The Age-Herald la
 beled his picture 'Dr. Hamilton when
 he first came to Birmingham. He ism Dr. anybody, but very interesting boy ! just turned out of college and perhaps ready to vote. All summer he has been mothering little orphan blue jay that was lost from it's own dear mother. If l you could have seen this young natural list robbng wasps nests and cramming wiggly worms and cookie crumbs down
 that blue jays throat, you never would have the temerity to compliment your ! dainty friend again by exclaimirg, | Why, my dear, you don't eat any more than bird" MT. Hamilton doesn't t spend all his time motherng bluue jays, however. He has nearly completed with | his own little hatchet" and hammer and saw an attractive building overlook
 ing the lower pool that will be the na- 1 ture museum and the photographer studio of future camps.
 1 Other buildings recently completed be- 1 sides the huts are the administration
 building, at the gates of camp, that serves as the Winnataska department store and headquarters for the men on I the camp staff; the directors hut the mess hall and Rymer hall, the recres,- ! tional hall for the braves when the
 rains descend and the floods come"
 COUNCIL CIRCLE
 We were delighted that we didn't need Rymer hall last night when we assem- ! bled in a great council circle around campfire that made the Delco lights in | our huts look pale If you have never 1 been in council at night with high school | braves there is thrilling experience left for you I felt that we were assembling ] to celebrate the victory of some chiefta'r
 bold. or the nuptiaL ceremony of Minne- haha and Hiawatha, as we crept stealth 1 fly to our high places of honor in the
 blackness of the night. At sign from l the great chief. the chiefs and braves I filed in, tribe bS tribe, and marched around the great circle in awesome si- lence Another signal, and the match was applied that set the great cone shaped heap in blaze. The silence was uninterrupted until the leaping flames lighted the heavens above and the earth beneath Then the great chief spoke Chiefs and braves. we've had great
 day today. and the night shadows call us here to celebrate our victories And such victories. In quick succession fol- lowed the interesting tribal numbers in l troduced by the chief of the -Choctaws, Miss Elizabeth White: by the chief of the Cherokees. Miss Christine Robbins; by the mighty one of the Chickasaws. Miss Lillian Sharpley. and by the chief I of the Creeks, Miss Marjory Moore. My pen is pining for description of the cleve, stunts done by dozens of clever | braves, but I must hush talking abo'it Hast night and hurry to the close of this l perfect dsv and the vesper services on l hillsides before the ''goblins get me" for being piggish with printers ink
 With sunset, came the chiefs summons Ito vesper- Such impressive service I }had never before attended As we sat
 with these mighty tribes on the hillside whfle the twilight gathered around us, ] the foothills turned darker blue in the l distance and the falls of Winnataska crooned a low song at our feet When the great chief and teacher Miss Strick- land. stood with barred head on the slope of the hill with thicket of pine trees for background I thought master l "Maddona" had stepped from her gllded frame to speak heart to heart with the children, before Der. Miss Strickland i knew every brave there and her record at home. The individual girl never fails | to grip the teachers heart and the motive of her thought was that of the camp the development of the all-round woman
 in the physical. mental religious and ispiritual qualities necessary to the high est type of Christian leadership. She pointed out the American Christian worn- ar as the greatest type of the world S womanhood, while she upheld the three standards of excellence in health, serv- ice and happiness.
 Realizing that the woman of the future 1 must be educated. this beloved teache, is sending the high school braves back home with ideals that will not permit them to fail in the school room any more than they will fail in courtesy and kind Illness. Such ideals. Miss Strickland be- ilieves wf1l mean adjustment and sanity in these evolutionary days of reckless ness in the attitude of woman kind
 Let us grow straight and talr' is the motto of this older girls camp, which
 was adopted from the pine tree Chat stands bravely and cheerfully erect above all the other trees the. hillside. When the songs led by Mrs. Steward and the beautiful story told by Mrs. McCul- voice in closing, prayer mingled with the | @% inn +a ~Ia eA Spa Al