The sun., 1919-10-19
tn HE way to do it, girls. is TO start
in your own block. Nobody

in your own block. Nobody
Il will object. Not even mother,
who may want you to help amuse the
baby or give her a hand at the dishes
or 20 to the grocery after something
she has forgot to lay in for the dinner
menu: or she may want you to prac-
tise half an hour on the piano or to
do your lessons before dark, because
you annoy father and interrupt his
train of thought after dinner, when
you will persist In sitting around with
your books, asking questions and
sharpening your pencil on the mahog-
any table and turning up the rug with
your toes. nagging to go to the movies
and dragging your chair instead OF
lifting Il and--well, lots Of little things
like that.
Count the girls in your block of
about your own age. II makes no DIFF
ference IL these girls are a social strata
above or below you. IL they are
your playmates or your school,
mates or go to the same church.
1t makes no difference IL the father of
one OF them mends all the shoes in the
! block or another father sells your
| mother cold storage eggs at fresh egg
prices, or her mother has to pinch
dresdfully to exc out three meals a day
or makes her daughters dresses out Of
discarded shirt tails.
The Thing to Do Is TO start.
The thing is to get together Get
together and form Girl Scout patrol.
You don't need anything but the urge
| to start with. Then write to head
quarters, 1s9 Lexington avenue, Man
haitian, and get a handbook. Eight
| girls make a patrol: sixteen girls
make troop, though If there should
| be thirty-two girls near an age in a
block who want to belong to n troop
they may be included and will make n
! brave showing A little study of the
bendaook will tell you what to do first.
But before this meet and talk II over
and decide which girl in the block
| yer 81 years of age of good character
and cheerful personality, and in
clined TO out of doors. and the. one you
are all agreed that you like the best Of
all the grownups; then call upon her
in body and ask her to be your cap
tain. Give hsr the handbook 30 read
SO she may find out the first things
you must do to qualify Is a tender
foot. II she comes a cropper--that is
! If she doesn't get il quite straight in
| her mind. as, for instance, how to tie
four of the following knots: reef, sheet
/ bend, Glove hitch, bowline fisherman
! and sheep shank. she may go down tc
4 Inn ri
There are quite a. few classes foI
training captains in operation now
| and certainly II you choose n girl t
be your captain she will appreciate the
honor enough to try to fin1 out how tC
be a good captain. To be a tender.
foot you must know how to tie tn,
aforementioned knots. to be able I,
tell the name OF the Governor Of Tho
State and the Mayor OF your city, t,
know the history Of the flag and how
to fly it. Then you are ready to make
the Scout promise:
To do my duty to God and to my
country.
To help other people at all times.
To obey the laws Of the Scouts.
Then you learn the salute and tn,
secret sign of the Scouts and Scou
motto, which is BE Prepared"
The Captains Authority.
The captain has the power TO enroll
Scouts and to recommend them TO the
local committee for badges and medals
She also has the power to release q
Scout from her promise end 10 with
draw her badges and discharge her
though a Scout who considers hersel,
unjustly treated may appeal to the
local council. The captain chooses hei
lieutenant to work with her. and the
lieutenant must be over IS years
but the patrol leader, girls, is your own
tchoice. She holds her ONCE for sin
months or a year; she stands next Il
the captain and lieutenant, and takes
either place in their absence. Tho
patrol leader calls the roll keeps a rec.
ord of attendance and n record of dues
she is responsible for leaving the clul
room in perfect order II is the patro
leader who is the real c0nfidante o: