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Tennis Champion Thinks Game Is Grand for Girls A hard game for a short timie i: part of the tennis technique of Helen Wills Moody, reigning, queen of the courts. Two sets of teninis aî day four or five days,,a week keep ber alwa%s * keen to play, she recently- told Anna Ë oyle ini an intferview for, readers of The American'Girl, officiai Girl Scout magazine. for ail girls., Mrs. Moody neyer permits herseif to become tired of the. game.. She usuallv plays about one or one and. a quarter hours- at a. time. Mrts. Moody thinks that tennis is 1 grand game for evýery girl and espe-. cially good during examination tirne It isnfot too expensive, she says,-and * it bas th e advantage 'that it. can be played between-.stu dy periods.or after scilool.hours. "I kept up niy tennis ail througih school, going to classes in flic morn- ing and playing in the afternoon," she told Miss Coyle., "In college 1. found tennis a marvelous balance be- tween mental and physical activi-' tics, espeéially during examination;. Everyone needs a balance oi intel1erý- tuai and out-door pursuits." Getz PJ.nty of SI.ep Mrs. Moody, who recently saited for Europe to participate in tennis tournaments in England and France before defending bier national title at home,' does flot believe in strict; train- ing. 'It takes part of the fun aaway if you fuss about the game," she says. "I just try to be sensible about food and sleep. 1 have my meals re.g- ularly and at1ways get fromn ninL ta- ten hours of sleep. If you have plenty of sleep, you have ail of your strengtit and you can do yo ur best work." The tennis queen is fond of motioný pictures, but, she does not attend them when she is playing.in: a tour-. * nament because of the eye straii.2 For the same reason slhe does not do rnuch reading when she is pIaying.] Girls to Observe Mothers Day Onit tie~ Daitire tables are 'turned an~d the Girl Scout daughter bt'c<wies the hostess- housekeeper prepared to entertain her eiders. AIL through the coiih'y ini r 5<-aid ile houses and meeting places Mother'; Day izill l'e celebrated u'itl' sich afterptoon teci parties as these tzvo girls are Vews In 930theTro@p 9 In 930thenew parishi house, be- longing to Christ church, Wnnetka, was finished. Rooms in it were giveti for the use of the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts. The Girl Scout room 'is used a great deal by the different troops of Winnetka, but wheri the spring' weather carne, the girls O'f mnust finish what we began, so îw e kept on, and after two or three Sat- urday mornings' work with some gesi- erous help from Mrs. Baker's son and his friend., we could see that1 it, wouid be a real gardèn. We are put- ting ini groups of bushes and ha' e planted many,,fiowers. At one end oî it we -are going te build a fireplace se we cani cook outside.-Nancv Moulton, scribe. Troop 18 As gonnasQwe al got together, . we Give Somne Rules. a ld for Pire Building "ttakes a fool to make a fil-e," îs anodadage that. miy possibly ac- counit for the ïorest fires that wvere. started so many times by* thoughtiess campers., It is an adage that bias no place in Girl Scout folk' lore, how- ever, for there are many types' of fires, for the Girl Scout camper, and many rules for her to remember. Trhe mëst important rule is "be:sure the ire.is completely out and covered with water and wet soul before Nvou leave it." To be quite sure that, it ýi out, Girl Scouts are further advised by their national organization -"where there ýare no glowing coals and lie palims .of the hand may n e plazed against the remains of thfli fire with- out discomfort, the fiÉe is safely out.", When Girl Scouts do remeniber what they have Iearned -a).out1 fire making >and the cleaning up pro- cess aftemwàds, a strànger' cofing to the spot should flot be able to rec:- ognize any signs of a fire. Girl Scout camp experts have Iearned that in the selection of wood, for fires, dead branches f rom the lower limbs of trees, or standing wood is better than wood found iying fat on the ground, because it is more apt to be dry and less apt to be rot- ten. If the wood snaps when it is broken, it is good fuel. If it bends, but does not break easily. it is too green. If it crumbles, it is rotten and without fuel value. Split wood burns better than whoie Iogs. Hardwooni for Laitimg Çoals They reconimend. the followiu!g hiardwoods for lasting coals: hickory. green or dry; locust, good. for a niglit fire: oak, bircb, beech. hard. mapie,, black. walnut, pecani eucalyptus. miesquite, white ash*, apple. or yellow pine. Softwoods for kindling. Or for quick, cooking ires that are rapidiy con- sumed and burn to asiles without ieaving any coals include: seasoned rhmt- vellow nlar: Iasswood: ,hand. 'Grasp tne racket near the end placing and of the handie. In ,playing, the thing was cooked that cornes most natural is best the commiti suited to the player. The main tbing stay on a bi to remember in making ail of vour Camp isi strokes is to have a swing to then., you haven't Don't be crarnped at any - time." do .so soon. really in sight signed up, >'o girls! iîl and Emily Kohl. 'A liad hetter songs and closedii ýAdams, scribe. Iag ceremony just to visit the The girls ini- is to be here S. ,garet Derum her many pocke that we sang prises for al E 'Taps."-SalJyto save May .21 Party!1 is coniing to town--- 3rownie Scouts., She urday, May 21, and ; will be fuîl of sur- ýownies. Reniember )r the Mother Gooseý'