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DEVELOPING THE BODY 



Water sports and other carefully chosen forms of recreation are, in connection with the other 

 Camp Fire activities, developing a spirit of physical and mental freedom in girls that will 

 affect for good the parenthood of the next generation. Photograph by Mrs. Luthsr H. 

 Gulick. (Fig. 11.) 



to meet the demands of our new day. 

 That here we have a splendid instru- 

 ment for the promotion of true Eugenic 

 ideals is sure if the words of its founder 

 are made good, and from my own first- 

 hand observations I should say that 

 already they are being splendidly real- 

 ized: 



IDEAL OF THE FOUNDERS. 



"Camp Fire Girls undertake in so 

 far as they are able to act as Hostesses 

 for their communities. The word Hos- 

 tess brings to mind not so much one 

 who is correct in matters of social 

 usage as a woman who understands, 

 who has insight, sympathy and tact. 

 She often enables people to do what 

 they never knew they had it in them to 

 do. She reveals people even more to 



themselves than she helps them reveal 

 themselves to others. She draws out 

 each one's abilities by her power of 

 intelligent appreciation. To her the 

 arts of entertaining are those which 

 bring people together, which reveal 

 people to each other, which develop 

 the social nature. To amuse is not her 

 object, but to so treat her guests that 

 the best in each is developed and fed 

 by the best in everyone else. This is 

 social genius. Camp Fire Girls aim to 

 discover, develop and use social genius 

 just as previous generations have dis- 

 covered and used scientific genius. 

 Into this work is being thrown an 

 army of picked girls under the guidance 

 of the ablest women. As they grow 

 in power of team work, preserving the 

 devotion and vision of youth, gaining 



