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Title: Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens

Author: Margaret White Eggleston

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FIRESIDE STORIES FOR GIRLS IN THEIR TEENS

by

MARGARET W. EGGLESTON

Instructor in Story Telling, School of Religious
Education and Social Service, Boston University

Author of "The Use of the Story in Religious Education," Etc.

New York
George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1921,
by George H. Doran Company

Printed in the United States of America

TO THE GIRLS OF
KEEWAYDIN CAMP FIRE
OF CLEVELAND
AND
ICACAYA CAMP FIRE
OF BOSTON

FOREWORD

"Given a Camp-fire, a group of friendly girls and a good story-teller who
knows and loves the girls, and the ideals of a whole community may be
lifted in a night."

The teen age girl is a great problem and at the same time a great
opportunity. Her ideals seem low, yet there is no time in her life when
she will more gladly follow a great ideal. She seems fickle, yet she is
putting her friends to a test that is most worth while. She is
misunderstood and she can not understand herself. She is searching for
something, yet she does not know what it is.

Her problems are many, and most of them she must solve alone. If she
follows the crowd and goes in the way of least resistance, there is a big
chance that she will fall by the way. If she does not follow the crowd, it
is because somewhere, some time, she has found a compelling ideal and is
following it. Sometimes that ideal comes to her in the form of a friend.
Sometimes she is fortunate enough to have found that ideal in her mother.
But often and often it comes to her through a little story that lives with
her, and works for her, and helps her to hold to the best, in spite of the
manifold temptations to do otherwise.