Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-06-29
Y. W. C. A. PLANS
SUMMER CAMPS
TWO PERIODS ARRANGED
FOR DURING MONTH
OF JULY

Women'S Christian association OF this
city two summer camps are to be held
at Clear lake where the organiza-
ton has an ideal camp site and where
la large number enjoyed an outing last
season, during the month of July.
The first period is to commence on
July 18th and to continue through the
22nd, and the second lasts from July
22nd to August 1st. There are also
to be two week end periods, July 1916
and 1928.
The association high school girls
are to attend the firsh camp (and
grade school girls will comprise the
second. For older girls and employed
girls, the week ends will prove es-
pecially attractive and Miss Alma
Blandin, general secretary, already
has six employed girls who will at
tend the first camp for the full week.
Rates are to be made as reasonable
as possible. The ten day period will
cost $1,000 and week ends $780,
Inducements Offered
It is quite natural that the Y. W.. c..
A. should enter a plea "If you like"
in asking girls to attend the camps.
Among the inducements offered are
the following: Hiking, games, nature
study, handicraft, long summer days
in the open, sing-songs, 'stunt-nights,
beach parties, dramatics, welner and
marshmallow roasts, stories told by
the magic light of the evening camp
fire, informal discussions beneath the
trees or by the lake, about things Wit
al in girls life. If you like these
things, then come to camp" 9
The camp staff will be made up of
efficient and responsible persons. Miss
BIandin as general secretary of the
association, will act as camp execu-
tive. Miss j. Aletha Keiser will be
assistant camp executive. Elmer Lar
son, a teacher for several years and
dean of men in a Texas college, will
be at the camp. He has been on
chautauqua circuit for. several years
and will be able to supervise dramat-
lie work. The camp will also be for-
tunate in having Judson Smith there.
He is an expert swimmer and mas
passed all scout tests OF life saving.
Miss Alta Miller, who attends the Mil
waukee Normal school, also an excel
lent swimmer, who attended the
camps last season, will be there again
this year and will have charge OF
swimming instruction.
Advisors to Help
Girl Reserve advisors will act as
camp counselors, instructors in ma
ture study, and as recreatiopal lead
ers. Among those who will be there
are the Misses Florence Wilson, Ag-
mes Liljequist, Leanore Martin and
Elvina Krause. i
Every effort will be made to make
the camp as educational as they are
pleasurable Each morning there will
be discussion on some subject or
other that particularly interests girls
The relation of the girl to the church
and the school, her dress, her friend
ships, her reading are among the sub
jects to be discussed. christian citi-
zenship for girls" will be the subject
of the Bible class, which will be
taught by Miss Blandin.
Thirty can be accommodated at each
period. The camp is located on a
healthful site and the tents that are
being used have been floored. The
grounds have been thoroughly cleaned
and conditions of sanitation will be
all that can be desired.
A Day SPrOgram
The program consists of full day
beginning at $3.50 a. M, allowing a
rest period from 1880 to 800 and an
hour for meals, with lights out at
$50 D. m. Games are to be enjoyed
from $50 to $3.50 each evening and
from $3.50 to $3.50 there is to be a
camp fire.
Girls are requested to "leave at
home" their dress-up clothes, high
heeled shoes, silk hose and jewelry
and are requested to bring toilet ar
ticles, towels, bedding, bathing suit,
bloomers or knickers, MILDLY blouses,
one simple summer dresss, kimona, or
bathrobe, sweater or warm coat, rain
coat and rubbers, knife, fork, spoon,
cup and plate, mosquito netting, nee
die, thread, scissors, darning cotton,
stationery, note book and pencil, BIZ
BILE.
Miss Blandin will be glad to give
further information to any who call
at the Y. w. G. A.