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of you," said Emily. "Come on, girls, let's give the school cheer for the Manasquan Camp Fire!" They gave it with a will and then Dolly sprang to her feet. "Now, then, the Wo-he-lo cheer!" she called. They sang it happily, and then, as they moved toward their own camp, their voices rose in the good-night song of the Camp Fire: _Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame_. "I believe Miss Eleanor was right, after all," said Bessie. "Those girls really like us now." "All but Gladys Cooper," said Dolly. "But then she doesn't know any better. And she'll learn." SUMMER SNOW AND OTHER FAIRY PLAYS By GRACE RICHARDSON Finding there is a wide demand for plays which commend themselves to amateurs and to casts comprised largely of children, Miss Richardson, already well and widely known, has here given four plays which are unusually clever and fill this need. They call for but little stage setting, and that of the simplest kind, are suited to presentation the year around, and can be effectively produced by amateurs without difficulty. PUCK IN PETTICOATS By GRACE RICHARDSON Five plays about children, for children to play--Hansel and Gretel, The Wishing Well, The King of Salt, The Moon Dream, and Puck in Petticoats. Each is accompanied by stage directions, property plots and other helpful suggestions for acting. Some of the plays take but twenty minutes, others as long as an hour to produce, and every one of the five are clever. HANDY BOOK OF PLAYS FOR GIRLS By DOROTHY CLEATHER Not one of the six sparkling plays between these covers calls for a male character, being designed for the use of casts of girls only. They are easily, effectively staged--just the sort that girls like to play and that enthusiastic audiences heartily enjoy. FICTION FOR GIRLS BETTY, The SCRIBE By LILIAN TURNER Drawings by KATHARINE HAYWARD GREENLAND Betty is a brilliant, talented, impulsive seventeen-year-old girl, who is suddenly required to fill her mother's place at the head of a household, with a literary, impractical father to manage. Betty writes, too, and every time she mounts her Pegasus disaster follows for home duties are neglected. Learning of one of these lapses, her elder sister comes home. Betty storms and refuses to share the honors until she remembers that this means long hours free to devote to her beloved pen. She finally moves to the city to begin her career in ear
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