The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-09
CONFERENCE OF OLDER GIRLS.
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Rev Mr.. Smith took his text from
Mark 4 1920, speaking of the Importance
Of believing Christ rather than believing
something which somebody has said about
Him, and compared this belief TO the
belief one has in a mother or friend. Je-
sus's life was life of service and was
spent in ministering to people to make
it easier for them to live. Christ has
created new world, new work and q
new attitude toward life. The speaker
said the practice of the golden rule was
the best example of a Christian, for it
challenges you to lift yourself up and
set yourself down in the other persons
place. Our principle has been IAN eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
The purpose of the conference was
summed up in the closing remarks of
Rev Mr.. Smith, who reminded the girls
of the fact that when they returned to
their home towns the buildings, the
streets and their homes would look the
same to them, but the question would be
whether the girls themselves had changed.
There always was a fear, he said, that
when the conference had closed the girls
would go back home and find it JUST as
they left it and fail to take with them
the vision which they had seen. No
matter said the speaker, how little you
have to give or how little YOU have to do
with II you put it at Christ'S disposal
he will make it grow"
While a few of the delegates left fer
their homes last evening, the larger pro-
portion left on the morning trains today,
few going on the 9.G7. but the greater
number went on the 1911 train.
New York secretaries of the \. W. c.
\. and visiting members Of the Vermont
council were strong in their praises of
the conference and the way in which it
was conducted, and expressions of appre-
citation for the hospitality of BrattlebOrO
people were heard on every side. A
group of girls We're asked yesterday what
had impressed them most in the confer
enca and they replied; The way in
which the BrattlcborO people have opened
their homes and taken us in and done
50 much for our comfort and pleasure"
Girls who have attended other of the
girls conferences remarked that this was
the best Of all
Brattleboro people responded we'll in
the matter Of furnishing rooms, and some
people who had promised to take girls
INTO their homes were disappointed that
ing brought about by the fact that 20
girls who had sent for reservations were
unable to come ut the last minute The
committee IN charge of the gct-tOgcthpr
supper Friday and Saturday luncheon
also appreciated the hearty co-ODcratiOu
pairing and serving the meals.
Miss Ethel Woodruff of Montpelier
was elected chairman for the conference
OF 1922 at st. Johnsbury and Miss Celia
Graves Of Manchester was elected sec
rotary, in the afternoon session SatUr-
day, following the report of the nOmi-
mating committee. At that session also
the report of the resolutions committee
was accepted in which gratitude was
expressed to the Brattleboro Chamber
OF Commerce for the invitation to the
conference to meet in Brattleboro: to-
its president. Carl s. Hopkins, for his
hearty welcome; to the Chamber for its
generosity in ma king possible the auto
mobile trip to East NOrthheld: to the
people of BrattleborO for their cordial
Hospitality in opening their homes and
a1Ordlng entertainment so freely during
the days of the conference; extending
appreciation to the people of st. Johns
bury Of the invitation to meet there in
1922; and giving thanks to Miss Marion
Gary, to the \. w c.. A. council of
Vermont, and to all the officers AMI
leaders who planned the conference and
who, through it. are pointing out on the
"Friendly Road the way for Vermont
girls to build lives that count"
After the reports were adopted AlIss
Bertha ". Terrill of Burlington. who
presided at this session, introduced DR..
Joel +. GOldthWalt of Boston. who gave
a most convincing address on Relation
of Posture to Health. Dr. Goldthwait
IS professor of hygiene at Smith college,
and through his work was especially
well qualified to give an appealing mes
sage to the girls.
He explained the necessity of correct
standing and sitting postufes and dem
OnstTated the difference between the
correct and incorrect ways. He said it
was no harder to teach a child how to
tand properly than to teach it how to
&aDc the letters, and added that one
e1uHut stand in the hollow -Chested
manner which has been the fashion the
l-Ast few Years without coming, to grief
3~ter on. The speaker remarked that
mere was nothing more beautiful than
oumaus figure + il is carried properly,
nd "pila6 atten. ion 10 the fact that by
riaaa is uOu1r1fIs3rv now in the Harvard
rsI~riculum Dr. Goldthwait also spoke
/ th" sleeping position, saying one
should stretch out in bed instead of
orlmg up. and advocated that no pill
i low be used.
automobiles, nearly 100 of which were
/ ~ the line which started for East
/ Mortified. Mass, at $50 o clock. re-
turning here at varying intervals from
! 5 to clock. u While the weather was
ideal for the trip the roads were found
! 70 be very dusty. but this did not mar
1.-THE enjoyment of the ride for the girls
! The girls then had their supper-sOme
! IL the homes of their hostesses and
some at Festaurants,-and at 80
I o'clock gathered in Odd Fellows temple
/ for an evening of recreation. The pro-
g., gram consisted of moving pictures and
! tahleauX, The Difference Clothes Make,
which was m charge 81 Mss Dorothy
ished throughout the evening by the
htoh school orchestra At / he close OF