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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

We could not even 20 walking.
or into town, without a maid, q
brother, a mother or an aunt. The
freedom of bobbed, or even partial
ly shortened hair, or knickcrbockers
and sweaters and boots, was forbid
den even our thoughts.
RESULTING WOMANHOOD.
But we had some things, you
haven't! We had dyspeptic girls,
anemic girls, pimply girls, bilious
and nervous and unhappy girls, idle
-idle-idle girls. What could we
do? Some painted on satin. some
practiced scales. Thousands dream
ed over "Ouida" and "The Ouch
ess." Winters were long, in the
'Nineties.
Thousands grew up odd" This
one sensitive to morbidness; that
one sour; a third prim and old
maidish even at seventeen. One
had no interest except in books,
another hated people," a third
cried jealousy for days when an
older brother married.
And these beginnings don't make
for happy endings. Painfully shy,
or awkward, or naturally solitary
girls dom grow by CHANCE to
be happy, useful women. Girls
need companionship, comparison,
the education of friendship, more
than do boys.
THE GIRLS ORGANIZATION.
These the organization known as
The Camp Fi'o Girls really sup
plies. Here is an enormous ma
tional organization, as democratic
as pancakes, formed by girls, man
aged by girls, fitted for the pecu-
liar needs of all girls-rich and
poor, city-bred and country-bred.
And-whatever the individual faults
of individual members, the occas-
ional failures that are inseparable
from all human effort-its purpose
if GOOD, and its achievement
something absolutely incalculable,
when We are estimating our ma
tional resources.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
1--WE Who Were Little Girls in the Nine
ties Dreamed of Today's Girl
hood as Wonderful Ideal"

she hates cooking and Is secretly
afraid of frogs and snakes. BUT
in an emergency she is "cool and
quiet" and that's SOMETHING.
To win their approval again, 10
experience again that delicious mo-
ment when they all noticed her af-
fectionately, she determines to push
on. She--she can't shoot gun,
no, but she could find 20 different
kinds of leaves and name them,
and she could be prompt at meals.
Honors. Honors! She must take
q whole rope of honors home in
three weeks.
And in ten days she is swim
ming, scared and proud, toward the
shore, and all the girls are calling:
"She dived! Yes, she did. a beau
tiful dive. Good for herr"
SUPPLEMENTS SCHOOLS.
From pamphlets recently printed
by the imposing institution now
called "The Campfire Girls, Inc.,"
one notes that the work is being
connected, in a dozen ways, with the
schools, which is quite natural. One
supplements and helps the other;
in one big school in Grand Rapids,
Mich, the programs and hand-craft
of the Campfire Girls, the relation
ship with their mothers, through the
Parent-Teachers Organization, the
songs and domestic sciences-in
word, the "honors," are all being in
extricably mingled-and more power
to them.
The girls sing Camp Fire songs
over the dishpans, discuss their
history lessons ON tramps and pic
MICS, and estimate all their school
and home associates by the stand
ard of the Camp Fire.
REAL COOPERATION.
We women who were girls in
the 'Nineties don't understand the
meaning of the word cooperation.
We do everything we do as stupid
ly, as extensively. as laboriously,
as IL we were a lot of suspicious
HottentOts, afraid of the next-door
woman would get our man or our
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Announcement that a Stradi-
varius violin had recently brought
the amazing price of $4,000, calls
attention to the fact that a genius
may go to his grave without real
izing that he was anything of the
sort.
Antonio Stradivarius. of Gre
mona, lived from 1914 to 1887,
and spent most of his life in max
ing stringed instruments. His mas
ter, Nicholas Amati, whose fame is
generally swallowed up in that of
the gifted pupil, had brought fiddle
making nearly to perfection, and
Stradivarius achieved that point.
He is described as having been a
quaint figure Of . man, tall and
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the woman she hoped some day to
be; a trained nurse, doctor,
teacher, a iournalist-the point of
the party was to discover by con-
versation Just what they all were,
and the girls wrote their guesses
on numbered blanks.
GIRLS FIND SELVES
One came, / remember, as the
imaginary mother of six children,
and the girls were in spasms of
joy over her talk of Group and cribs.
She has three of her six babies now,
this dark-eyed "Katoya," the pine
tree. and / believe they will be
happier men and women because of
those old talks about the Camp
Fire.
Because. first and foremost, the
thing TO remember about the organi-
cation is that while q girl is find
ing friends. work, hobbies, talents,
she is finding HERSELF. Her
chances of growing up to the sgon-
les of unexpressed desires, cramped
and stunted possibilities are less
ened with every campfire she at
tends and every "honor' she wins.
1t will not be for her to say, as
so many girls of my generation
could say: 81 might have done
that! THAT was my special forte,
and it was denied me-"
When she sits in the glow of
the swapping great logs, with the
quiet stars winking overhead and
night wind whispering through the
woods, and when she hears the
other girls say, 'I'm going to be
I'm going to be-I'm going to be
I'm going to be" suddenly she
breaks in, too.
IT'D like that!'
'Oh. Wahwa tayee, you
wouldn'tI'' the other girls cry.
"Oh, but 1 WOULD. If little
babies HAVE to have serious opera
tons, I'd like to be the surgery
nurse to see them through"
CHARACTER DEVELOPS.
Perhaps she has never spoken up
in meeting before, this shy little
girl of yours. Perhaps she is a
little scared now. But the Guar
dian says approvingly: "She could
do it, too. She's worth all the rest
of you put together in an accident,
cool and quiet"
And from that moment on the
scared little retiring individuality
begins to develop. She is afraid
to dive, and the hikes tire her, and
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StradivariuS Poor Man

thin, caring for little except his
home life and his work. In win
ter he wore a white wooden cap
and in summer a white cotton one
and was seldom seen without his
leather apron. His industry was
stupendous, and he was frugal to
a degree.
Riddles from the Cremona work
shop went to the chief towns of
Europe, and it is on record that a
music dealer in London, named
Corvette, returned a consignment
of violens to the Cremona factory
on the ground that the price of four
pounds was too much to pay for
any fiddle. Just fancy, one OF
them now selling for 10000 pounds !
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dinner away from Us, II We opened
the front door!
But we can help the girls Of
today to be wiser, to see that X
we pull together there il really
no pull at all; that cooking and
sewing and studying and playing to-
gether are ALL play. Happy work
companionship, achievement-the1
are the rewards and delights a
true LIVING, and anyone who has
tasted them will never be willing
to take a Pomeranian for an air
ing, year in and year out, while
a completely strange woman cooks
her dinner and answers her tels-
phone bell.
NERVES ARE DOOMED.
One doesn't see today's Camp
Fire Girl, in the year 1882. saying
peevishly to her unfortunate hus-
band: Il wish you wouldn't BANG
the door that way; I'm all nervesl
My heads splitting. and | didn't
eat any lunch, just those ca ncls
that were left. I've been lying
here all afternoon-there's nothing
to do in this jay place anyway.
nothing but those everlasting woods
and that ridiculous woman's club.
l don't KNOW what there is for
dinner; she can't cook anyway, she
spoils everything, and 1 don't know
anything about cooking, I've ALWAYS
hated it,"
Exaggerated? Oh, no, no there
used to be plenty Of wives who
talked like that. Indeed, pool
nerves, poor health, fainting. weak
ness. only a languid interest in
anything outside your own draw
ing-room, used 20 be considered the
signs of & true gentlewoman.
The Camp Fire Girls know bet
ter than that And il your own
little girl doesn't belong and
doesn't want TO belong TO the
branch that is in her school or
in her neighborhood. there il
SOMETHING wrong.
But not with the Camp Fire
Girls
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81 Wonder if Girls of Today Can Form
Any Idea of What a World We
Used to Have"
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

THE organization of the Camp
= Fire Girls Of America is
dream come true.
Lots Of our modern joys and lux
uries are: Marconi's dream, Edi-
sons dream, the dream of horse
less carriages that didn't need
tracks, the dream Of household
lights that didn't need wicks and
oil.
Schoolhouses used to burn down.
with children trapped in them, until
somebody dreamed Of school
house that WOULDN'T burn, and
kitchen stoves used to be horrors Of
ashes. rust, clumsiness, delays, until
somebody dreamed of magic stove.
where one would have only to press
a button to boil the kettle and
toast the bread.
The dream comes first, jHt an
empty dream, and then, mysterious
ly, somehow the dream comes true!
Nobody is quite sure how; some
times one heart and brain has a
lot to do with it, sometimes a mill
lion. For years we say wistfully,
"if only" and, "Don't you wish"
and then suddenly we are taking the
miracle FOR granted, part Of our
lives.
GIRLS OF THE NINETIES.
We who were little girls in the
Nineties might have dreamed of
today's Camp Fire Girls as some
thing too tbrilling-too wonderful
to be true. / wonder if you girls of
today can form any idea of what
a different world we lived in then?
We wore four times the clothing
you do, petticoats and under-petti-
coats, we had heavy braids of hair
to brush and plat we had no sport
clothes, for the excellent reason that
we had no sports.
In long, full skirts we sometimes
batted few tennis balls to and
fro or banged croquct balls through
hoops. Long skirts, Tor even ankle
length skirts were considered i'm
--@a~~f
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

Red, White and Blue folks,
JUST like YOU folks,
We are the FREE folks,
LIB-ber- TEE folks,
Tra-la-la!
Tra-la-la!
SAY, can you SEE, folks,
We are the BRIGHT kind,
We are the FIGHT kind,
With all our MIGHT kind,
For the RIGHT kind,
LIB-ber-tee LIGHT kind,
Out of SIGHT kind,
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about Father & Son Week. What mean to say IS that
boys will be boys and business is business but business
not everything for this nation is conceived in liberty and
dedicated the proposition of freedom in the of
human events of the people, for the people and by the
people, for all and all for one, Americans, fathers
and husbands (Gpplanse) and why not? (aptlanse).
All, the young lads in the first trenches when denoc
racy went the top in the that ended all
the buwark of country and the thrilling hand of pa
triotc duty. ITO you from falling hands throw the
TORCH Excelsior" the poet has said, and why mott
(dbblaase).
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Tra-la-la
Ira la la!
.LA-A-A-A-AAA!

~ Rdtping for order: | have all listened with
interest and got good deal out of Mr. Dawsons inspiring
speech which will be real inspiration And now am
going introduce who needs introduction
whose name and whose energy the community and whose
Christian activity is-is-known to you all
Messenger brings note (Which Pa reads
Fellow Go-Getter the Rev. Harold Klump. (Atplanse
Rev. Klap rises to his feet. Unfortunately, have just
been called away for few minutes, but leave
you in good hands and hope be back in time to hear
good part of the Rev. Mr.. Humps talk you pa exis
SONG LEADER: Come boys, make him welcome, the old
GoGetter greeting:
How dee do, Rev. Klump, how dee do
How dee do, Rev. Klunp, how dee do
Oh, welcome you by name,
For we're glad that you have came
How dee do, Rev. Klump, how dee do
how dye do.
STRAGGLING VOICE: How dee do, Rev Klump
VOICES: Sh q. ush . Can it!
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Pa Potter:


You know the principles for which stand four
square with shoulders to the wheel the dawn of
day gliding the mountain tops with rich promise OF
fufllment of tasks the fruitful heritage of
years await beyond the horizon of hopes and the
promises of yesterday burgeon bloom and blossom into
the fruit of tomorrow swept by the free airs of liberty and
kissed by the bright of justice and freedom beneath
whose glorious rays may that frag forever fry, that flag
for Fever fry fly well, anyway.
Your flag and my flag, and how it flies today,
In your land and my land and half the world away.
Your heart and my heart and haw and how it flies today
Storm tossed and wind ossed-er-how it flies today,
Your flag and my flag
The Red the White the Blue.
(Thnnderoas applause Darson seats himself proudly
aoipmg the perspiroton off his star spanglsd woj.
SONG LEADER (Leofing to his feet patriotic tevo):
Number fortyone in the old hymn book, everybody You
all know the Oh, Katherine (Stors off song sceh
everybody joins Until they shouting rdacopsly and
rhyhmicaHy).
We are the NEW folks,
We the TRUE folks
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

Fire meetings | can see now even
more clearly than / did then eS-
actly how valuable that companion
ship, that communion of thoughts
and plans, was to those twenty
girls. While we tramped, or pick
nicked, or worked over fudge or
wampum head-bands, We talked
talked-talked. Once we had a
party to which everyone came as
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
Mrs. Norris Says

THE organization Of the Camp Fire Girls of America dream
trua
The empty myster
ousy, somehow the dream true!
Painfully shy awkwor naturally solitary girls don't
by CHANCE be useful Girls need cmpanionshp
the education friendship than do
What all children than money
education the spirit brotherhood the sympathy and under
standing Of their neighbors that make any life rich.
First foremost the thing remember about the organization
while finding friends, hobbies talents she
finding HERSELF.
poor health fainting only anguid
anything
sidered the signs = genIewomsn
The Camp Fire Girls better than
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22
THE POTTER S
PROLOGUE.

VX 7E HAVE the privilege today of sitting in the
wv unusual important luncheon of the Go.Getters
The Potter community feels it is about time to get the
fathers and together suggested why not have
Father Son Week? The sheer originality of this sugges
zion swept the community Eke-wel whatever such things
weep communities lke-and the GoGeers the repre-
sentative business organization of the region took hold of the
situation in its maserfu fashion and helbent heaven
with it and this is the meeting of the GoGetters. Pa
Potter the chairman of the committee has been empowered to
make the plans which will result in bringing the fathers and
into what Samuel Johnson might have called conanguine
consolidation.
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ticular element. What we want
all the children to have, more than
money or even education, is the
spirit of real brotherhood, the sym
patty and understanding of their
neighbors that make any life rich;
and, with all this, health and joy
and the fullness of living.
Remembering some OF those Camp
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fYoa should be able to finish this Nth such star
PA (Bedming happily the gathering) Mr. President Fellow
GoGeters: We have large and very full, interest
ing program in which you will undoubtedly be inter-
esed. am you will all listen with interest to the
next speaker who has something of interest to talk
about He is who who (pdaOs drought his
notes frGnticay) who thinks-who thinks in terms of
loyaly-on broad fundamentals and the deep enduring
qualities OF the golden rule I'm you will all be in
teesed in what Mr.. Dawson has say about this subject
which is Fathers and Sons business Proposition Mr.
George E. Dawson, President of Dawson & Co.!
SONG LEADER (Leabing to his feet): Come boys let's
give George Z. Dawson the old Go-Getters greeting
HILARIOUS CHORUS:
How dee do, George Dawson, how dee do,
How dee do, George Dawson, how dee do
Oh, W welcome you by
For we're glad that you have came
How dee do, George Dawson, how dee do,
How dye do
STRAGGLING VOICE STARTING AGAIN: How dee do
George Dawson
VOICES: Sh sh can it!
DAWSON (GsnaHy and importantly: Mr.. Chairman Go
Getters: think it's mighty fine thing to talk you
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SCENE !.

Let pass the business of the last meeting and the nvoca
tCn by the Reverend Harold Kmp and the songs about the
grasshopper (actom u call n who in of gay
abandon jumped the back of the other grashopper et
tbs grashopp be b. with the deduction the ringing chorus
informs that they the gasshopper only only fooing
PRESIDENT OF THE GO-GETTERS: 1t is my pleas
and privilege to turn the meeting to loyal and
devoted chairman of the Entertainment Committee Peter
E. Potter.
SONG LEADER (Leabig chair and making magnetic pass
at his afing if slightly musical snbjects) Number
boys, in the old hymn book tune "Red Hot Mama" One
two-three go They go chanting Justify and beating time
Nth silseypure)
Peter Potter,
Peter Potter
You're the boy for us,
Peter Potter
Peter Potter
One swell cuss
We claim that you should be
With the bear cats fair and square $
You've got the old ambsh,
Just like do and dare
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06
FAN COLLECTING
NEEDS SENSE
OF seen"
Often Very Difficult to Tell
Age of Specimens by
Ordinary Means

A taste for collecting fans is
amusing, and not necessarily ex-
pensive, unless one aspires to the
possession of very fine specimens;
and, although the day for great
bargains is ever, very good ones
may still be picked UP.
In one way fans are more
puzzling than silver or china: for
they have no hall mark or factory
stamp, and the old ones are almost
never signed. A few general rules
as to style may be some guide,
with those in collections will be
much more useful No collector
Of moderate means can hope to be
really successful unless he has
that sort of instinct called Oy the
French scent" which will enable
him sometimes to be independent
Of rules.
The actual sense Of smell is
often very useful, by the way, be-
cause, if an old fan had been
mended and touched up, the paint
and varnish will keep their odOr
for a long time, which may easily
be detected, after the fan has been
held for a few minutes in the
hand.
AS a general rule, fans are sup.
posed by their owners or stated by
dealers to be older than they really
are; and to give an opinion often
requires a certain amount Of tact,
as, for instance, when one is asked
by its proud possessor to admire a
specimen said to have belonged to
Mary Queen Of Scots, but which
could not possibly have been made
within hundred years after her
death.
With the great majority of old
French fans the costume Of the fig
ures on them is the best guide, as
these are always in the dress Of the
day, unless the subject is classic or
NEUROLOGICAL and even then there
are frequent lapseS which betray the
actual period.
If fans are of any considerable
value, they should be kept wide
open in frames or in a glass case,
as each time that they are closed
and opened again the creases be-
come more marked and worn. If
carried fans should never be held
too near the fire, as heat warps
them. When at rest in their boxes
they should be wrapped in tissue
paper with a ribbon or an elastic
strap around the guards in order
that the sticks may be kept close
together.
While the modern limitations of
old enamels and china are so per
feet that even experts may be de.
ceived by them, the reproductions
of old fans have as yet been of an
ordinary commercial character; and
it is doubtful if skilful counterfeitS
of fine specimens could be made to
pay unless the fashion for the orig
inals takes harder hold than it has
done as yet. A folding fan painted
with pastoral scenes by Boucher,
Vatican and others, is one of the
principal detectives Of the fan col
lector.
THE CONNOISSEUR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06
OFFICIALS ARE
NOMINATED
BY CLUB
Paul Hrandstedt to Have No
Opposition for President
Of Cosmopolitan

Paul Brandstedt, president Of the
Cosmopolitan Club. will continue to
lead that organization for another
year. His election was assured
yesterday, at a luncheon meeting
In the FRANKLIN Square Hotel.
when his name was the only one
placed In nomination for the high
est office.
Other nominations were: For vice
president, George Lucke, Orville
Drown and Doctor Edwin H. Sill
YER: for secretary, Robert Simpson;
for treasurer, Frank Griselli; f"''
directors two to be chosen). Robert
McChesney, James Mckee, p. A.
Davis, Edwin w. Schneider, David
Myers, Charles Lanahan, Doctor
Arch Miller and Lewis A. Payne;
for delegate and alternante to the
Cosmopolitan convention in Tulsa,
Okla; Frederick ]. Rice, Philip
Buettner, Robert Simpson, George
Wyne, James Mckee, Roy Cramp-
ton and Michael Schaeffer.
Elections win be held by the
club at its luncheon meeting next
Thursday.
The club heard an exposition of
the window shade business by W
Stokes Sanmons, Cosmopolitan Of
e the day, who, In accordance w:.i1
club custom, outlined his connec-
oon with the business In this city.
Frank Kelly was introduced as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06
Asks Congress to Ban
Use of Tobacco
In Washington

The antitobaceo convention
has closed its sessions after
passing a resolution urging
Congress to ban cigarette smok-
ing and the use Of tobacco in
the Capitol, Government depart
mental buildings and all public
gathering places in the District.
as a move for better health and
efficiency.
The meeting was held in the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Episcopal Church.
A committee was appointed 20
visit the Interstate Commerce
Commission to see hat there is
no smoking in railway stations
or trains, except in separated
COMMITMENTS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06
POISONED WOMAN HAS
CHANCE TO GET WELL

The condition Of Mrs. Hazel
Flynn, Of 1921 Fairmont street
northwest, who was taken to the
Emergency Hospital Wednesday
night suffering from poisoning, was
said at the hospital to be un-
changed today.
Mrs. Flynn was discovered stag
gering on the street in southwest
Washington by the Rev. John T..
Briggs, pastor Of the Fifth Baptist
Church. Her condition has oeen
critical since that time, but hope
is held out for her recovery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06

probably win start on his yacht
trip shortly.
Marquis Curxon, leader of the
House Of Lords, who was taken i'll
at Cambridge last night. passed o
comfortable night. His physician
has ordered complete rest for
him.
Former Premier Lloyd George
was recovering from a minor ILL
ness, but is not yet able to take his
seat in Commons.
Lady Aston is expected to return
to London next week after an en-.
forced rest cure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-06
SHOT BY POLICEMAN AS
HE REACHES FOR POCKET

Clyde Oliver Clancy. of 200 IA
street northwest, shot in the hip
about 2 o'clock this morning by
Policeman G. E. Terrell. of the
sixth precinct, after, it was said.
CLANCY resisted arrest and made a
move toward his hip pocket when
caught by the officer, is resting
comfortably at Casualty Hospital
According to the police Terrell
chased CLANCY for several blocks
and when they reached Jackson
street northeast, the latter reached
toward his pocket as though to
draw a weapon. When Terrell
fired the bullet struck Clancy
in the left hip. He was taken to
the hospital in the Sixth precinct
patrol wagon,