The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-02

that Of the Boy Scouts, the coming
generation is likely to see accomplish
ed things which heretofore have been
labored for long without success. All
over the country, in cities, in towns,
In villages, in hamlets, girls are or
ganized or organizing for vigorous, cf-
fective activity. And they, as well
as the boys, have as their chief object
to do something's" and now this en-.
ergy, that has been either suppressed
or not systematically guided, is being
turned into constructive ines and di-
rected like that of boys who are men,
bers of a worldwide organization.
This movement on the part of the
girls began to make itself felt when
the boy scouts organization first came
into public attention. From the time
when the first warrior bold rode away
on his prancing steed it has been the
lot Of the big and little girls to stay
at home quietly and wave their fare
well, an arrangement that had its ad-
vantages as any warrior of modern
times will gree; but the maids of this
twentieth century are different in some
respects from the fair ladies Of long
ago. They are not content to stand at
front windows and applaud. They want
to be in the center of activity, too;
and men and women, noting their
eager eyes and their parted lips and
quickening breath, have decided that
they, also, shall know the glory Of do
ing and achieveing.
Numerous Organizations.
Organizations of girls more or less
similar to that Of the Boy Scouts have
sprung up in different parts of this and
other countries. The first and prob
ably the largest of these is the Girl
Scouts Of America, with national head
quarters at Des Moines, Ia. The Girl
Guides of America has its national
headquarters at Spokane, Wash, Then
there are the Campfire Girls of Ameri-
ca, with headquarters in New York,
and the Girl Pioneers. In England are
the Girl Guides and in New Zealand
the Girl Peace Scouts. In a general
way all of these bodies are similar to
the Boy Scouts, but they are adapted
to the particular needs of little girls,
and vary in detail or in the score OF
their activities. In broad way they
make the same general appeal to girls
that the Boy Scouts does to boys, and
it is found that this appeal is much
the same in both instances, differing
in detail rather than in character.
Girls, too, like to go on "hikes," and
q knowledge of the woods and wood
life is as absorbingly interesting and
useful to them as it is to boys. The
girls organizations may give more at
tention to cooking and sewing, but
making bread and soup in camp gives
1t the interest of adventure. Most
girls object to stopping their play in
order to clean chicken and cook it
In the kitchen oven, but when the work
is part of a hike" done in the open,
with the immediate prospect of salts
flying the appetites of bunch Of hun
cry and merry companions, it is diff
ferent proposition. When she learns
that there are four ways of cooking
meat or fish, or fowl in camp when
there is neither fork nor pan to aid
in the process-and that is the way
the ancient Maori woman did it-no
girl with the proper spirit will stop
until she has mastered them. 1t is
not to be expected that she will cook
by this method in her own home, but
she gets the rudimentals, and the
modern ways follow in natural and
easy stages. Cooking includes as a
necessary preliminary fire building,
and this involves a practical demon
stration of air current and other
things it would be we'll for many
housekeepers of long experience to
know about.
Wholesome Activities.
In camp and on hike the girl learns
to pitch tents, to tie knots as well as
boy, to make beds of grass or leaves
and to build a loom on which she
weaves a bedmattress of grass, fern
or straw. She can signal with flags
or arms or heliograph or sound, using
a horn, tin pan, whistle or a drum.
She reads the weather indications, and
one of her greatest sports Is to stalk
a bird or animal, but not ordinarily
for the purpose of capturing it. She
gains friendship with the bird by OBJ
serving it's ways and creeping up to
it in such a manner as not to cause
alarm. She blazes trails, she hunts
foxes" and she Carries a message
to Grant" She learns how to make a
raft, how to find her way in strange
places by night ar we'll as by day and
many other fascinating accomplish
ments.
It is a vigorous, wholesome life that