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190 religions duties, and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion.

"What can I do in Uncle Sam’s junior service?" the Boy Scout's girl schoolmate asks?

Why, the Camp Fire Girls are waiting to welcome every girl who is over twelve years old, and wants to put their watchword, Wohelo, into practice. It means, Work, Health, and Love, and is a home and neighborhood watchword.

As a Camp Fire Girl you can win honors by doing plain, everyday things that you never knew before were so important, Taking the entire care of a room for one week, or tending a baby an hour a day for one month win Camp Fire honors. So will cooking three common vegetables, in three different ways, or trimming a hat, or tramping ten miles a day, or rowing one hundred yards.

The Camp Fire girl keeps well, and walks thirty-five miles a week if she can. She saves food in the kitchen and saves the money, too, that other girls spend for candy and chewing gum, and sodas. She raises vegetables for her family, goes on hikes, and camps out in the summer. She learns to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America."

Any girl over twelve years of age may join a Camp Fire and become a Camp Fire Girl. Local Camp Fires have not less than six and not more than twenty members, in charge of a woman who