laboratory, who had looked through a
spectroscope at seven, clapping her small
hands over the fairy colors--pure red,
orange, green, blue, violet, separated by
little dark, thread-like lines, each representing
some element in that far-away
upper air which her father hoped to
master--preferred for herself the boyish
Pem to the oft-worn Rose.

But in order to square accounts with
what she called the "betty" element in
her, she evened things up on becoming
a Camp Fire Girl by choosing a name
all feminine wherewith to be known by
the Council Fire.

Want[)a]am, signifying Wisdom--a Wise
Woman--was the title she bore as one
who wore the Fire Maker's bracelet upon
her wrist and had pledged herself to tend
as her fathers had tended and her fathers'
fathers since time began, that inner,
mystic flame which has lit man's way
to progress from the moment when he
forged a bludgeon to conquer his own
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