ls, contests in
public speaking and choral singing; with teachers and farmers'
institutes, Chautauquas, and the Grange, giving programs for girls and
women; with agricultural extension courses, adapting them to the needs
of girls; with State and County fairs, providing exhibits, contests,
camps, rest rooms; with library commissions, making out reading lists
and using traveling libraries.

There is not an organization for betterment beside which the Young
Women's Christian Association will not stand, taking from it whatever it
can use for the welfare of young women and girls, and putting its own
spiritual meaning into the endeavor.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] If any Country Girl should write to Miss Elizabeth Wilson, Executive
Secretary of the Y. W. C. A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City, full
information would be given her about the Eight Weeks Clubs and also as
to any other part of the work of this wonderful, dynamic and constantly
growing Association.

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE CAMP FIRE

RUTH THE TOILER

There is that quiet in her face
That comes to all who toil.
She moves through all the sheaves with grace
A daughter of the soil.

There is that beauty in her hands,
That glory in her hair,
That adds a warmth to sun-brown lands
When Autumn cools the air.

There is that gladness in her eyes,
As one who finds the dust
A lovely path to Paradise,
And common things august

There is that reverence in her mood,
That patience sweet and broad,
As one who in the solitude
Yet walks the fields with God!

--_Edward Wilbur Mason._

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE CAMP FIRE

The Young Women's Christian Association will frequently be found working
in harmony with a sister organization called "The Camp Fire Girls,"
which is also a national association with many local groups called "Camp
Fires."

The purpose of this organization, to quote from one of their booklets,
"is to show that the common things of daily life are the chief means of
beauty, romance and adventure; to aid in the forming of habits making
for health and vigor, the out-of-door habit and the out-of-door spirit;
to devise ways of measuring and creating standards of women's work; to
give girls the opportunity to learn how to 'keep step,' to learn team
work through doing it; to help girls and women to serve the community,
the larger home, in the same ways that they have always served the
individual home