Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 May 1936, p. 20

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e g* a SMOTHERS DAY IS UNDAY. MAY 10). IN. EVANSTOC)N Ev.ry Mother (and bher Daughter) knows McCaIIum means the. marveous sheer chiffon and service bosiery tbey love ta weerl Reinforced heels and- toes. Ail the new colors are bers. (3 par, 33. nirE OIUs HENR C, LyToN. & SONS Orrilgtmand Cbw.h-EVANSTQN SOp«u Tue&, Thers. and Soi. iveuI.ge L*ndsmen almost always. refer to every type of vessel as a "boat." .A sailor on the other, hand,. when lie refers to a boat, mneans a smali, craft. carried by a. larger. vessel. In -this categor1 are life boats, whale boats, launches,-cutters, etc. After learning precisely what ,a boat is, Sea Scouts 'Must become thoroughly familiar wiith the names of the various parts. Foliowing is a brief outîjue of: the, essential parts and which it 'is taken for. granted, any Sea Scout »khows "cold." Corresponiding to 'the skeleton of the. body is a basic framework giving formn to 'the boat. This is macle of. several parts. The first and most important is the. keel serving as the backbone.* This is made of a 'stout piece of wood running the length of the boat. At ý the, fore-end of the keel and joined to it is the stem whicb is a piece of wood into which the planks fit to form the jointed pdow. At the afterend of the keel and also joined to it is the stern post which forms the afterend. Between the stem and tbe stern 1post and fastened to the top of and at right angles to the keel are the ribs. Just above the ribs and parallel to the keel is a second beavy piee bodiy. A bôard usec i n the construc- tion of- a boat is always termed either à "plank" of a "strake.". The first planks on either side of the keel are known as the garboard strakes. TheÉ last two at the upner edge of the bull are known as sheer strakes take- ing their name froni the curve of the bull froni fore to aft 'whlch is termbed the sheer. The very top edge of the bull is called the gunwale. (Pro- ta spend,,a week In Second and Third periods are also filling up- nicely, but because they. are farther away are flot quite as full a the, frst. Over1 two hundred periods have been spoken for and it- lookes as though Camp Ma-KaJýa-Wan will. be an even more popular place than ever this year. 1If youi pla n to stay more tha none. period,- do nfot wait tilt you are at camp to say so. It might e ool1 e Sign up now' and. be su re of your place. NEW BUNKS Because of a. generous gîft of some steel.bunks, given to. the council'.by the Arden Shore -association, the cabin-in-the-woods is noW equipped wîth' steel springý cots. They.,have b;een fastened to the walls of the Cabin so> that they inay be folded up ouat of the. way dluring,. the day, leaving the rooni free f or activi-. ties and eating purposes. COURT OR HONOR The Wilmette district of the Boy Scouts will hold a court of honor at the St. Francis School on Monday, at 7:30. The meeting wiIl be com- bined with a camp rally and there will be pictures of the north woods and Camp Ma-Ka-4a-Wa-n. Parents will have thé chance ta asic during the last twô months will De made. Hector Dodds, the Wilmette district court of honor chairman is in charge of the programu. COURSE POSTPONED The, elements of Scoutmastership training course which was. to, have been held last Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3, was postponed until two weeks later, or until Saturday aw, 1 boys are mq c fraternity. i - . abers

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