Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-24
Girls Scout Camp
Market Helps Solve
High Cost of Living

NEW YORK, July 24.-Andree,
National camp of Girl Scouts at
Briarclif Manor, New York, through
the establishing of a marketplace in
which the girls are taught to do all
the family marketing, has placed
itself foremost in the ranks Of I'll
camps catering to young girls. TOR
here, where youngsters from every
section Of the United States are
spending the summer months the
! market has become an institution
that will make its influence felt in
hundreds of homes in the years to
come. At this camp, a scant thirty
miles from the heart of New York
city, where the high cost Of living
Is admittedly higher than in any
other section of the country, the
scouts are being taught through ac-
tua1 experience how to stretch the
dollar so that there will be no hun
cry mouths-that food will be var
led and nourishing, and SO that ON
a limited income, the balance sheet
of the ledger will show money saved
and no debt.
1OdA JCoA6 d6O CAfdtOI ltA1li
A. Clark, of Montana, presented to
the National Council of Girl Scouts
the camp at Briarcliff Manor, an
estate of 135 acres with it's natural
lake, hills, forests, and orchards.
There were two buildings on this
land, one a great farm house, now
converted into a hospital, and an
Clubhouse which was probably used
for storage purposes in winter.
It is this latter building around
which the attention of the scouts
Is focused, for today 1t is a huge
marketplace selling meats, groceries,
vegetables, fruits, candy, pots and
pans, ribbons. hair nets, and count
less niek-nacks dear to the girl
heart. And it is here that the girls
get the training that is to equip
them as capable managers of the
household budget in the years to
come. So successful have the lead
ers of the organization been in the
results of the market that countless
other organizations dealing with
young girls have requested permits
sion to adopt the plan with their
own charges, and distinguished rep
resentatives Of foreign countries
have investigated in detail with the
view of adopting the system in their
own lands. Two of these were rep
~resentatives of China and Japan,
countries in which girls have for
centuries been kept in the back
ground, but who, through the intro
| duction OF the Girl Scout move
ment, have been granted more free
dom than their p~rogenitors ever be-
lieved possible.
The camp accommodates COM
fortably about one hundred girls -
some of them are registered for two
weeks, many for the entire summer.
They live entirely in Units, with
three tents allotted for each unit,
comprising ar average of ten girls.
Two of the tents are used as sleep
ing quarters: the third is kitchen
and dining-room combined.
Each unit has its Junior councillor
and its patrol leader, the latter cleo
ted by the girls OF the unit. 1t is
the patrol leader who assigns the
duties of the camp, n of which is
marketing.
Board at the camp costs ten dol
lars per week-five of this is used
for camp upkeep. the hiring OF
tents, blankets, cots and to defray
the current camp expenses.
This entire fund Is deposited in
the local bank at P1easantville, and
its equivalent in camp money re-
tanned on the premises. This camp
money is made of metal, the size
and shape of the various denomina-
tions of the U. S. silver currency.