Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-29

with the most appetizing meals that
are served few fail to arrive on time.
The Lodge also contains "Telawela
hoos," which is the camp store. the
post office, the administrative offices
of the camp and best of all a large
room for informal meetings, writing
letters and social chats. A huge
fireplace which is used in cold or
rainy weather adds much to the at
Iractiveness of the room.
The store, which is in charge of
Miss Cornelia Vail of Wichita, kans.,
is a most wonderful institution. Miss
Vail being able to produce on an in
stants notice almost anything that a
girl might need from boomers and
middics to lolly pops and ice cream
Genes.
Miss Esther Weston of New York
City, Il Vassar college graduate. is
the music councillor, and she has so
installed the love of music into the
girls in the camp that they are all
ways to be found singing. In their
tents, out boating. in swimming and
of especial importa nee, at the dining
tables, the Malua songs are being
sung.
But to return to description of
the camp. On either side of the
Lodge is a row of small cottages.
which accommodate from eight to
sixteen girls in each. These cottages
are provided with comfortabi single
: beds. two or three to a room a living
and hot
according to the size of the cottage
Each bath room is provided with hot
and cold water and has a complete
outfit, just like the bath rooms at
home.
But even more attra active TO the
majority of the girls tan the cot
tages are the tents of which there
are some IS or so. with accommoda :
tions for from two to four girls in
each Several small hath houses rear
the groups of tents provide the some
comforts for the tenters as the girls
who live in the cottages.
Medicine Lodge is the name of the
camn infirrarv. which is presided
over nv Miss Dinah Milne, who looks
after the minor illnesses. cuts ard
bruises which are bowed TO happen in
large family of girls like those who
pass their vacations at Maqua.
Overlooking the Like 20 fhe Iarre
recreation hall where dances enter
tainWents and other forms of amlse-
ment are enioved cvenin"s and on
stormy davs. A h"ge frerlace is a
lecture Of this hall ami il thc LIGHT
or the blaze the girls love to sit and
sing their SONGS, tell s-o"ics end enioy
stunts BY roenohers of tho party.
The Camp Nanua n~oncrtv cor
sists of some 200 a"rns Of land with
RAJ mile Of lake FRONTAGE. At tho
e%trHn'e northern end Of the reserya :
ton is n'ost magnificent PHO grove
where on Sunday MORNINGS the girls
gather for service Of readinr and
song and where on other DAYS picniC
parties and camping parties enjoy
themselves for pion'clinn nnf camn-
Ing are features Of the cor1n FIFE,
An acre or more of cultivated land
provides he"ns, peas beets tor,atoes
cucumbers. s-'isS chnrd, lettuce. no.
tatoes and manv other Vegetables 70,
the camp. This garden is a most
important institution in connection
WIN tfe success Of NIaqua as it pro
Tdes nearly everything in the
vegt able line that is needed for +be
hungry members of the family.
Numerous hammocks sIung in the
birches invite the girls during the
rest hour which follows the noon
meal each day.
Immediately upon arriving al the
camp the girls are assigned to one Of
the rve tribes. The Samosets are the
workers of whom there are about g.
III camp, These are the girls who
wait on table, assist in the kitchen
ana perform such other duties s NAV
De round necessary. These girls are
almost evenly divided between college
girls and industrial girls. All sign mn
Tor the entire season. they being the
only ones. outside the camp execu
tlves. who remain at Mauua for the
entire summer.
Ihe other four tribes are the
Wabanaki, Telewauket. Penobscot
and Passamaquoddy Each tribe
mas from two to four councillors, ac-
cordlng to its size and between these
tribes there is the greatest rivalry for
camp honors. Each week the Maola
banner is awarded to that tribe which
has shown the best camp spirit
which includes a variety of things
such as keeping ones tent in order
looking after the grounds around the
tents. cheerfulness and such other
things as go toward making camr
life enjoyable.
In addition to the tribal banner
there are the camp letters. Once a
week the Maqua IN" is awarded tc
the most outstanding girl in each
tribe to win which is the greatest
honor that can be won by a girl dur
ing her stay. There is also the ath-
letic IN" which differs from the
Maqua "M" somewhat in appear.
ance.. The athletic IN" is awarded
for points won in swimming, learn
ing new strokes and stunts, taking
long hikes, track meets and in othel
athletic sports.
During the day swimming occupie.
much of the time, the four swimming
instructors being at the beach botf
morning and afternoon for severa
hours. For the beginners the beacl
lis roped off about shoulder high
while out beyond the diving float il