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. I 22 WILMETTE LIFE February 21, 1930 NEW TRIER GIRL SCOU Notes From the New Trier Girl . WILMEITE AN INTERESTING GAME Are you looking for an interest!ng game to play at your party? Here it is. This one was used as an appropriate game for a Valentine party at our meeting last week. The story is read hv someone and the words in quotation marks are titles of sor.~s which ar~ played on the piano. T~e storv is written down as read.. and the object is to guess all the songs. Romance of .. K.K-K-Katy" and "Danny Boy" He lin:l "On the Banks of the \Va bash" and she on the "Beautiful Oh:o." 1'hev met in a "Countrv Garden." He $aid~ "I Passed by Your Window" and felt that I simply must meet you. She said-'Tis fortunate, for "I'm on My \Vay to ~fandalay," but now perchance. I might stay. Oh do-said- he-and we'll go "Roamin' in the Gloamin'." So d.urinss the da~· they sat "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" and then w~nt "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips" ::; mging "The Chant of the J ungle." \Vhile strolling along they wrre quite surprised to see "Old Black Joe." \Vhen he reached them he said-I'm going back to "My Old Kentucky Home." Old Massa wanted to "Carry Me Back to Old. Virginy," but he can;t now coz "Massa's in De Cold, Cold Ground." So Old Black Joe went to the "Old Folks at Home" and left the lovers "I11 the Gloaming." They both tried to "Listen to the Mocking Bird" but all thev could hear was the strains of "The \Vedding March." -Isabel Haskin. \Vilmette Troop 1. TOWNSHIP EWS · All dense woods look much alike. Trees of most species grow verv tall in a forest that has never heen cut over, their trunks being commonly straight and slender, with no branches \\'ithin, say, forty feet of the ground. This is because they cannot live \\'ithout sunlight for their leave s. and they can only reach sunlight by prowing tall like their neighbors ~hat c rov.·d around them. As the young tree shoots upward. its lower limbs atroph y and drop off. To some extent the characteristic markings of the trunk tl,at distinguish the different species \rhen they grow in the open, and. to a greater extent their characteristic l1ahits of branching. are neutral ized \\hen they grow in dense fore st. c()nSN)Uently. a man who can readil~· tell c. ne species from another, in open country, by their hark and branching habit.;, tnay he j)~tzzled to distinguish them in 2 horiginal forest. Moreover. thr lichens ?. lid mosses that cover the holes of trees. in ~ he de ep shade of a primitiYe wood. give them a sameness of a . f)f'(t, sr. that t!-:ere is some excuse for the tH·vice who savs that "all trees look alike" to him. · The kn')w]ed~e of trees that can he ~a inecl. first frbm books and srcnndh· t'rom studies of trees them sel\'e . in ritv parks or in country wood-lots. mtt:'t he supplrm~"nted. hv considerable ex erience in the real wilderne ss before "ne r~n sav with confidence. ln· mer<.'lv ~lancing at the hark, "that ·is a soh tr.aple. and the other is a sugar-tree." And yet, I do not know any study that, in the long run. would be more sen-iceable to the amateur woodsman t!nn to get a good. manual of Americ:ln trees and then go about identify ing the species in his neighborhood. H<n·ing ~ained some facility in this, then let him turn to studyi.ng peculiaritie :; of ind.ividual growth. Such self training-. which can he carried out almost an\'where, will make him obsen·ant of. a thousand and one little marks and characteristics that are sign-hoards and street numbers in the wilds. - Horace Kepart in "Camping and Woodcraft." Much .Difference Forest Echoes Between Trees in L-_ _. . . . : . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _I Forest, City Park Scout Troops I think when God made for·e sts, He made them, with the plan Of holding a communion Ret\\·een himself and man. He made the arching oak trees Cathedrals dim and ·high; J-I e alta red thetn with mosses, And roofed them with the sky. I-f e hid the glowing flowers Each in a quiet nook, For men with hearts to \\'ant them. For men with time to look. :\ncl all the trees about them l-Ie filled with singing birds, \Vho tell, like vested choirs, The wisdon1 of his words. Intosh, Betty Solomon, and Georgette Becker. The eats were serve d. by Mildred Farmer, Betty Turck, and Carol Linn. Our announcer was Georgette Becker. -M argcry Taylor, Wilmette Troop 2. KENILWORTH REVIEW KNOT TYING At the Kenil-worth troop meeting on February 10, the girls who did not 1ttend the class in home nursing reviewed Tenderfoot knot tying and also learned to whip the end of a rope, tie two half-hitches and tie a rope into convenient form for transportation. After the color ceremony the Leopard patrol taught the rest of rhe !roop a nature relay race. We played. it with fish, animals, birds and insects. Monda:v evening at 7 :30 several of 1he girls went "star gazing." They learned to find the Dippers, Orion, Cassiopea, the Bull. the Pleades, the Rabbit. and the bright Dog Star. an informal investiture. Many bacl.ges were giv·m such as scribe, swimmer, life-saver, home nurse, health guard!an and cook. More attendance stars were given. In this meeting three new girls \\'ere ;:·dmitted to the troop. They are J an ~th Wei!. Virginia Vaw'ter and Jane Scrimageuur. \Ve hope they will soon be Scouts. Mrs. Gerald. Burnham and her lieutenant, Mrs. Raymond Doonan, visited the troop. They are going to start a fifth troop soon. -Marjorie Leach, Scribe, Troop 1. MUST LIKE DISHES It was a rush and a scurry to find one's place at the table. Troop 4 was having a supper, and what a supper it was! V ~lunteers were called for the job of washing dishes. Although only four volunteered. we had loads of fun talking about this and that. During the time the d.ishes were being scoured and dried, charades and plays were acted out hy different groups. The lights were turned out and. camp songs were sung. After some announcements were marl~. we then had our good-night drcle. There was a wild dash for the telephone and then to the cloak room where rubbers were strewn in different direction). Someone went running r.round trying to find her hat which ~he later found in the lobby. I still think the best part of the fun was do~ng the dis~es. -Mary Louise Moreau. Wilmette Troop 4. Wedne£day, February 12, the Eskimo vatrot of \Vilmette Troop 2 ga,·e a Valentini.! program for the rest of the troop. We started out with a poem entitlf>d "Philip's Valentine" read by Mildred Farmer. Next we had the historv of St. Valentine bv Betty Turck. Then a poem called "To St. Valentine" read by Carol Linn. We then had a story cal1ed "A Valentine for Homely Martha" read by Margery Taylor. Jane Solomon recited a poem called "My Mother's Valentine." We then had the Valentines passed out by Otelia llc· INVEST NEW TENDERFOOT In our last meeting Irene Moses was invested as a Tenderfoot. All our girls are Tenderfeet now. Mrs. Green had us play quite a few games. They were first aid., forming letters and signalling. Silver Fox~s won first aid and forming letters. There were no winners for signalling. We were glad to welcome back Mrs. Pearl after a three week trip to Texas. Troop 3 welcomes Troop 5 into WINNETKA Winnetka Girl Scouts. Mrs. Gerald another patrol. That makes three raTROOP I HAS INVESTITURE Burnham, troop leader, Mrs. Raymond trols in this troop now. In their last meeting the girls of Doonan, lieutenant. We selected new leaders and new Troop 1 accomplished quite a hit. After -Harriet Pearl, Scribe. names: Clover Leaf patrol - Ruth t J,e opening ceremonies two girls were Phelps, leader; members: Dorothy chosen from each patrol. These ~irls Troop 4 has he en very busy making were to practice signalling and re- all of the plans for our food sale which Hyrne, Betty Collins, Anna Herr. Virceiving the Morse code. One girl from we are having at the new A & P stnre dnia Miller; Wild Rose patrol-Eilene \Veakley, leader; members: Frances f·ach patrol was given a message she on Elm street. We decided which pa- Collins, Catherine Reynolds, Anna had never seen before. The other girl trols should sell at different hours and Reese, .Marion Pickard, Ellen J onec;; sat at the other end of the room from who should decorate the tables. \'1\/e Forget Me Not patrol-Jean Gord.on, her companion with pencil and paper. made our posters and they are around ieader; members: Margaret Davis, She was to receive the message. Thev town. Helena Mickey, Mariliss Smith, Ruth had great fun, hut found thev needed Some of our girls are planning r.n Sutherland, Margaret Powers. much practice. Parents' night is not going to ~he Scout camp this sumntf>r. There were five girls absent who wi11 far off and we want each parent to They think it will be quite a lot of have to he assigned to patrols next <.orne and see the accomplishments of iun and we are all sure that it will be. week. We now have twenty-t\\·o girls his or her daughter in Scouting. We are learning a lot of new games in our troop. "Babe" Zimmerman had mad.e a chart from our new lieutenant, Miss Totten. -Frances Collins, on which five patrols are represented Two of our girls have passed their Scribe, Troop 3. hv boats bearing their colors. The rest tests for Second Class Scouts. of the chart is blue sea, marked off Joan Brown who has been so sick at POT LUCK DINNER in divisions. Each division means a the hospital is back home, and will On February 5, the girls in Troop 3 point. Tttese points are cooperation, soon be herself again. had a pot luck dinner in the Scout number present and tardy, and if you -Jean Grasett, Scribe, Troop 4. room at 5 o'clock. We made our own get your d.ues in on time, which will he things and that passed us in cooking strictly stressed along with others, for MANY NEW GIRLS tor our second class. There were two the rest of the y.ear. At our meeting on February 12, we The last thing that happened was found that we had enough girls to have tables, the Buttercup patrol at one table (Continued on Page 24) t '