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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
IME
inclined to be a
city
Inck of chances for enjoyment of the
“days of real sport” which
only life in the country
According to the countr)
the only place in which the “city
fellers” could play was the street,
and what fun was there In trying
to hav. a really good time on a paved thorough-
fare. shut in between long rows of brownstone.
front You had to waich out fur vehicles
of all sorts: If you tried to play ball, chances
r¢ that the ball would go sailing through a
window and that meant an indignant householder
or a cry of “Jiggers, the cop!” to put an end
fun. How can a boy enjoy himself If
there's no green grass to run and roll on, shady
under which to loll when you're tired, and
of “open spaces” where
wns when the country boy wus
bit sorry for his
cousin because of the, latter's
sort of
can give.
boy's idea,
houses?
fo your
1
you can yell as
3 : "
vou please without somebody complal
irely too much noise”?
has
in the past been under somewhat of a handicap
it
the
Now, of course, it's true that the city boy
me kind of outdoors enjoyment tha
ave. But there are city parks
¢ is just as green as in the country
s the shade of the trees is just as cool
must be a ted that park policemen
with unfriendly eye upon any attempt
to “shin up” those And there are public
boy ean
would lool 3
trees),
playgrounds where the city “whoop it up”
3
all he pleases and
{even
have ali sorts of riotous fun
though “supervised plas” would sort of
eramp the style of carefree youth,
the country boy's notion). In late years, however,
the eity boy hasn't had to depend upon such lim-
ited resources as the city offers for his outdoors
recreation, The development of the summer camp
idea hes been giving him an opportunity to know
the same kind of enjoyable outdoor life as his
country cousin Knows.
according to
The pioneer in the idea of summer camps for
eity boys was the Young Men's Christian asso-
ciation. which began establishing temporary
eamps back in the eighties. The plan developed
rapidly until today it is one of the most important
pieces of work being done by this organization
and there are permanent Y. M. C. A, camps in all
parts of the country. A newer development, how-
ever, is the winter camp idea which gives the
eity boy an opportunity to enjoy life in the coun-
try in the winter as well as summer and if the
experience of the Chicago ¥, M. C. A. with the
two winter camps, which it established three
years ago, is any criterion, these camps with thelr
epportunity to the city boy for an outing when the
snow covers the ground will be as popular as the
others which give him his recreation when the
earth Is carpeted with green,
The work of the Chicago Y. M, C. A, which Is
typical of the service rendered by this organiza-
tion to Young America which lives in other con-
gested metropolitan areas, began with the estab-
lishment of one summer camp back in 1000. At
the present time it has four ecampe in Michigan,
two in Wisconsin and three in Illinois, a total of
nine camps for boys, as well as anothe. for men.
The Michigan ecamns are the following: Camp
€hanning, on Upper Scott lake, near Pullman;
amp Martin Johnson, near Ludington; Camp
Pinewond on Echo lake, near Twin lake, and
€amp Wabash, near Benton Harbor, In Wiseon-
xin it maintaing Camp North Words and Camp
Nawakwa, both on the Lac du Flambean Indian
reservation in the northern part of the state, nnd
fn Ilitois it has Camp Duncan on Fish lake. near
Round Lake station, forty miles from Chicago,
and two camps, the Hastings Lake camps, oun
Hastings lnke, near Lake Villa,
It 1s in the Illinois camps that the Idea of giv:
Ing the city boy a winter outing was first tried.
Camp Duncan was given to the West Side depart-
mént of the Chicago Y. by Joseph 8, Duncan, and
1t serves particularly the poorer boys of Chicago's
great West side. This camp is open to boys be-
tween the ages of ten and eighteen, all of each
summer, and it is also open during the Thanks.
giving and Christmas vacations and the spring
vacafions for special ontings, The boys pay ahont
half of the cost of the camp and the balance Is
made up by Mr, Duncan and other friends of the
boys, The Hastings luke camps were provided
Real
HE ICE DERBY
“ALL SET"-—Z11 rigged out in rubber
boots 'n’ everything, Marry Lazar, a Chicago
boy, starts a thrilling ski slide down the
steep hill and on to the icy lake at Camp
Duncan, conducted by the Y. M. C. A of
Chicago near Round Lake, IIL
“FOX 'N’' GEESE" in the snow is a game
that no city boy will forget when he gets
a chance to play it where there is plenty of
white snow in the country atthe Y. M. C. A,
winter camp.
“TALKING IT OVER" around the big
fireplace in the lodge at Hastings winter
camp conducted by the Y. M. C. A of
Chicago near Lak. Villa, ill, over each
week end. The boys from left to right are:
F. Kriz, 1353 South Komensky avenue; J.
‘Jrba, 1339 West Eighteenth street; R. Lid
ster, 442 Normal Park; H. Hopkins, 1842
Byron street; F. Krist, 4228 Milwaukee
avenue; Dick Wren, 5013 Parnell avenue;
Ed Eagen, 6814 Parnell avenue; L. Elbe,
2866 Otto street; M. Johnson, 3834 Green
view avenue, and W. Rosenow, 4228
Milwaukee avenue,
“AN APPETIZER"—City.-bred boys from
Chicago sawing wood for the first time In
their lives and learning some of the experi.
ences of pioneer life in the country while
attending a Y. M. C. A. winter camp at
Camp Duncan near Round Lake, Il, during
the holidays.
“THE ICE DERBY"-—The boys line up
and crouch in eagerness for the word
“Go!” Then they're off on the ringing steel
across the glassy surface of the ice on
Round Lake at Camp Duncan,
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through the generosity of A, E. Cross and Arthur
Cutten of the Chicago Board of Trade, and Mr.
and Mrs. C. H, Worcester of Chicago. It is under
the general management of the general offices of
the Chiengo association, It has a camp director,
J. P. Hargrove, who lives there the year round,
having boys come to camp each week-end through:
out the year,
As the result of the establishment of these
camps by the Y. M, C. A, more than 4,000 city
boys each year have the opportunity for healthful,
wholesome play in a new environment and under
circumstances which are particularly valuable In
building a finer type of young manhood, In the
winter eamps their days are filled with all sorts
of outdoor sports, They have their cholce of
skimming over the glassy surface of the lake on
skates, sliding down the steep hills on skis or on
a toboggun and go whizzing out over the lake,
fishing through the ice or playing any of the num.
ber of games which a good fall of snow offers.
It may be a lively snowball fight in the open
or behind the defense of a snow fort which they
have built, or it may be he old game of “fox and
geese,” a game which American country boys
have played for generations,
The city boy learns wooderaft, too, in these
camps, for when there's snow on the ground they
“turn Indian” and test their skill in tracking
through the wooda, In faet, In a region that ia
rich in Indian lore there Is plenty of Inspiration
for “playing Indian” A recent issue of “Chicago
Men,” the official publication of the Chicago
ne th
“Young Palefaces Hold Pow
“A Indiz
ve oe : wi te 3
woys and their da
nioved by OO
' Hyde
Park, and South C vo departments ¥, MC. A,
over one week-end at Hastings Lake camp,
tracking, running,
bows and arrows, and other sports
in POWWOW
+ glewood
$s
“Contests in shooting with
give a chance
for the young bucks to test their mettle in competi
tion with the older and wiser sachems,
“Ton of these young paleface braves
in an Indian story-telling contest in
around the campfire, The old
served as judges to deiermine the
received a genuine Indian bonnet
Clement Studebaker, thirteen years, 6327 Droxed
avenue, won this honor telling the story of Chief
Blackbird.”
Not only do these city hoys enjoy Imitating the
life of the” first inhabitants of their state, the
red men, but they also learn how the pioneers,
who conquered the wilderness, that Is now n rich
and thriving country, lived. They bear tales of
those brave old days when they gather around the
campfire at night, after the day's fun is over, to
cat toasted marshmallows, nuts and apples, and
the fire is kept blazing with the wood which they
have cut for the fireplace themselves. That is
they spend the evenings thus, unless the lure of
outdoors is still too strong for them to
even when darkness falls, Often the boys put up
lanterns and torches along the shore of the Inke
and continne their fun far into the night,
Aside from the chance for healthful recreation
which these camps offer for the youth of the big
city, there are other values In these Y. M. C. A,
camps which are Indicated In the following edi
torial notes In a recent issue of “Chicago Men":
“When a city boy learns to pitch his tent, make
his bunk, and fry his own flapjacks and bacon In
the woods, the camp has encouraged that boy to
develop new qualities of self-reliance that should
help him through life,
“When this boy In th® out-of-doors hears the
moaning of the pine trees and looks up at the
great silent stars overhead, he gets a hew under
standing of the Eternunl Creator that he may
pever get in the man-made city.
“Pwo Catholics, one orthodox Jew, and a Metho.
dist make a tour of six Chicago and two other
Y. M. ©. A. camps this summer in Wisconsin and
Michigan. One of these men has already spent
five years studying for the priesthood, Each ren.
dered n specific service In hehal of these cifingps,
The four became close friends and enthusiastic
boosters for the enmps.”
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A Wife's
Transformation
The Story of the Comeback
of 8 Woman Gone to Seed
By Mary Culbertson Miller
INSTALLMENT V
—
Face Skin Treatment,
TOW that Helen Crane was wholly
N awakened to the consclousnpess
of natural feminine charm and beauty
her enthusiasm in the pursuit of Mt
brushed aside almost every other in-
terest. The vanity that had been sub-
merged by years of
and indifference was now a
her goal,
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Patience Needed.
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frowning.
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takes a lot of patience, this
building, but ah . . . the
more I'll steam your face,
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towels again?”
result!
once
will close the pores again
cold this time,
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ple. Cleanse your face with some
seen me do it. Always remember to
rab upward and outward It would
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should advise you to use a patter, It
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plump. You may use tissue cream
and pat it in firmly, Since much of
the work of our bodies is done while
we're asleep it is well to leave the
skin foo on all night so that It has
a chance to work deep into the pores
and enrich the skin.”
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Walter—What's that?
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