The Washington herald., 1920-06-21

AT $6 A WEEK
Sunburn, Swimming n
Everything Offered at
Camps Near City. .
APPETITE GUARANTEED
Lazy Girl Can Lounge and
Active Girl Can
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APPETITE GUARANTEED

Washington girls can spend q
weeks vacation in the country for
Sc with all the trimmings of sun
burn, appetite and pep.
That's all Miss Anna L. Rose, edu-
cational secretary of Washington
Y. w. C. A. says any girl under
20 needs for the best time of her
young life.
On Rockville Road.
For this price. girls will be pro-
vided with the best exclusive coun-
try boarding houses offered at
Camp Winona, near Edgemoor, Nd.
on the Rockville road.
For business women, government
clerks over 20. and school teachers,
the Y. w. c. A. has established Va
cation Lodge at Cherrydale, va,
within a half hours ride of Wash
ington. where reservations are
made for a three weeks vacation.
Don't come out to Camp winoHa
with silk ball gowns" says Mrs.
S. d. Taylor, camp director
But she advises the girls to bring
bloomers. MILDLY blouses, rubbers.
low-heeled shoes, bathing suits,
towels. soap, musical instruments
and kOdaks.
A Ten-Hour Day.
The camp is run on a schedule
intended to put pep into any gJl
who is worn out after a hard year
at school or in some governmeht
office. The rising bell rings at 7:So.
At Sis there is breakfast and "a
camp inspection at $3.50. At 9z5
the girls go through setting up
exercises. Swimming, hiking. base
ball and basketball fill in until
1890. when the girls wash up for
real country dinner served 1t
p. m. They spend the afternoon
as they please until supper at s.
Story telling and singing around
lights out at $50.
For Washington girls who waht
to wander further afield during
their summer leave period, the ma
tional Y. w. c. A. camps at Canton
and Union City. Pa, offer the same
accommodations for s6 a week, not
including the railroad fare to and
from this city. -
There are 1873 Y. W. c. A. vacation
camps in the United States, but
Camps Nepahwin and Canadohta,
located at Canton and Union CitS,
ARE especially reserved for Washing
con. Philadelphia and Baltimore
girls.
Suitcases Only.
Trunks are not allowed in camp
and the directors send these direr-
tions for girls packing their suR-
cases: Boomers. walking skirt. rub
bers, bathing suit heavy bathrobe,
warm night clothing. warm coat or
heavy sweater, MILDLY blouse. walk
ing shoes and extra blanket Be
ginners in swimming are asked 10
wear red caps.
These Y. w. c. A. summer camps
are the secret of a cheap and healthy
vacation" says Miss Rose. Would
you guess that a girl could spend
week in a wooded place. swim
ming when she liked. canoeing,
bacon batting. hiking across couH-
try when she felt particularly
peppy and lying around in cool. stall
places when she wanted to he quiet,
and all for Sc plus her fare?
"All the camps have play leaders
and a council for every group OF
from fifteen to twenty girls. Amo1g
them baseball and basket ball
matches are arranged, cross country
hikes, bird hunting trips with field
glasses in place of guns, early morn
ing bacon bats. moonlight marsh
m a
sprees.
"Best Of Rouge"
For the girl who wants to he
lazy and quiet there are such things
as crows nests built high in the
tree branches where reading or
dreaming is the most natural sport
to indulge. or there are beaches
where a blanket spread in the sand
makes the LATEST sort of a 'chaise
Tongue
Then. of course, there is all the
Joy of a simple life that one gets
from sleeping in tents with a wooden
box for a dressing table and an
eight-inch mirror for five or six
girls. There is always the chance
to pull your cot into the open and
sleep under the stars.
The 153 camps accommodate more
than $4,000 girls during the sum
mer. / know of no better way Cor
young girls to buhd up good health
and have a ripping good time. It's
the healthy, fresh skinned. athletic
girl with the rouge that won't
come off on her checks because It
is painted from the inside who holds
hersjob all the year round and makfs
a successful business woman"