{"product_id":"2940013157828","title":"A Christmas Success Against Odds","description":"CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I     The Grand Council Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II    The Boy Scouts' Invasion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III   The Skull and Cross-Bones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV    Studying the Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V     Girls Courageous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI    The Punster Makes a Find\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VII   To the Rescue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII  The Eavesdropper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX    Mr. Stanlock Surprised\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X     Mr. Stanlock Amused\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI    A Man of Big Heart and Queer Notions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XII   A Mysterious Disappearance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII  \"Find Her, or I'll Find Her Myself\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIV   Trapped\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XV    A Pile of Scrap Lumber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVI   Helen and the Strike Leader's Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVII  Helen Declares Herself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII Helen in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIX   The Subterranean Avenue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XX    Twelve Girls in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXI   Thirteen Girls in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXII  A Sleighride Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Camp Fire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Christmas Success Against Odds\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy STELLA M. FRANCIS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GRAND COUNCIL FIRE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Wo-he-lo for aye,\u003cbr\u003e    Wo-he-lo for aye,\u003cbr\u003e    Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo for aye!\u003cbr\u003e    Wo-he-lo for work,\u003cbr\u003e    Wo-he-lo for health,\u003cbr\u003e    Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo for love.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo hundred and thirty-nine girl voices chanted the Wo-he-lo Cheer\u003cbr\u003ewith weird impressiveness. The scene alone would have been impressive\u003cbr\u003eenough, but Camp Fire Girls are not satisfied with that kind of\u003cbr\u003e\"enough.\" Once their imagination is stimulated with the almost\u003cbr\u003elimitless possibilities of the craft, they are not easily pleased with\u003cbr\u003eanything but a finished product.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe occasion was the last Grand Council Fire of Hiawatha Institute for\u003cbr\u003eCamp Fire Girls located in the Allegheny city of Westmoreland. The\u003cbr\u003eclassroom work had been rushed a day ahead, examinations were made\u003cbr\u003ealmost perfunctory, and for them also the clock had been turned\u003cbr\u003etwenty-four hours forward. The curriculum was finished, and the day\u003cbr\u003ejust closed had been devoted to preparation for a Grand Council\u003cbr\u003ewind-up for the fifteen Fires of the Institute, which would \"break\u003cbr\u003eranks\" on the following day and scatter in all directions for home and\u003cbr\u003ethe Christmas holidays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd there was literal truth in this \"break ranks\" method of dismissing\u003cbr\u003eschool at the Institute. Since the United States entered the European\u003cbr\u003ewar on the side of the anti-frightfulness allies, Hiawatha had become\u003cbr\u003esomething of a military school. The girls actually drilled with guns,\u003cbr\u003eand they would shoot those guns with all the grim fatality of so many\u003cbr\u003eboys. Not that they expected to go to war and descend into the\u003cbr\u003etrenches and fire hail-storms of steel-coated death-messengers at the\u003cbr\u003eenemy. Oh, no. They might, but they were sensible enough not to let\u003cbr\u003etheir imagination carry them so far. But preparedness was in the air,\u003cbr\u003eand the girls voted to a--a--girl (I almost said man, for they were as\u003cbr\u003ebrave as men in many respects) to take up military drill and tactics\u003cbr\u003etwo hours a week as a part of their curriculum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadame Cleaver, head of the Institute, did not start the military\u003cbr\u003emovement rashly. She was carefully diplomatic in the conduct of her\u003cbr\u003eschool, for she must satisfy the critical tastes and ideas of a\u003cbr\u003ehigh-class parentage clientele. But she also kept her fingers on the\u003cbr\u003epulse of affairs and knew pretty well how to strike a popular vein.\u003cbr\u003eHence the membership of her classes was always on the increase.\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, at the beginning of this school year, she had to turn away\u003cbr\u003esomething like forty applicants, for want of room and accommodations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHiawatha Institute was founded as a Camp Fire Girls' school, and when\u003cbr\u003eUncle Sam became involved in the European war, the national need for\u003cbr\u003enurses appealed strongly to Camp Fire Girls everywhere. What could\u003cbr\u003ethey do? The very nature of the training of the girls from Wood\u003cbr\u003eGatherer to Torch Bearer made the question, so far as they were\u003cbr\u003econcerned, a self-answering one. They had all the broad commonsense\u003cbr\u003erudiments of nursing. With some advanced science on top of this, they\u003cbr\u003ewould be experts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut military authorities said that the nurses ought to have some\u003cbr\u003emilitary drill. War nurses must be organized, and there was no better\u003cbr\u003emethod of effecting this orderly requisite than by military training.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne well-known captain of infantry informed Madame Cleaver that war\u003cbr\u003enurses could not reach the highest grade of efficiency unless they\u003cbr\u003ewere able to march in columns from one camp to another and be\u003cbr\u003edistributed in squads at the points needed.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147499847920,"sku":"2940013157828","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013157828_p0.jpg?v=1763577743","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013157828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}