Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-10
GIRL SCOUTS OF WAUSEON
Some Things To Think About Your Girl And Mine
BY Josephine Daskam Bacon, Mother of
a Girl Scout-SOme Suggestions For
Fulton County People

What do YOU think a fourteen
year old girl ought to be able to do
She goes to school of course, but
that doesn't take up all of her time
certainly, not all Of her thoughtsl
And though the schools work hard
at the problem, we all realize that
they alone cannot equip young wo-
man for life.
And we feel, more and more, that
between the ages Of ten and sixteen,
a girl ought to be getting hold, some
how, Of the idealsl and the practical
hints that more than anything she
learns in any school, make a wo-
mans life lean toward success or
failure.
The GIRL SCOUTS think they
have found out the simplest, most
practical, most entertaining way of
handling the problem Of the growing
girl.
just think for a moment, what YOU
think girl ought to be, for every
body has ideas on this subject. And
when you have made you mental
picture Of the best sort Of girl, the
GIRL SCOUTS think they can show
her to you.
Fist she must be healthy. And
you needn't add, happy, because a
healthy woman Is happy one.
Scouting takes girls out into the
open, hikes" with them teaches them
every sort Of woodcraft, camping and
swimming, and teaches them too, how
to do these things skillfully and in
dependently. The elevators and gas
ranges and electric lights of civi liza
tion are losing out Of the rest those
wonderful hardy talents of our
pioneer mothers, and the GIRL
SCOUTS are putting them back.
The next thing you wish for the
American girl is that she might have
some sane, practical, (and interesting
don't forget that) preparation for
the home and the child we hope she
win have some day.
"She ought to get it in her own
home.' Well does she? Does she
in your home for instance? If you
ever tried TO give it to he, you under
stand why she doesn't.
You see, you can't supply her with
several jolly chums of her own age
as a work 'ng unit, to begin with
You can't supply the group competi-
hon, the normal gang spirit"- that
aM healthy youngsters have at her
age. You can't give her merit
badges for cooking, sewing, home
nursing and child care, to sew on the
sleeve of her uniform. And sc
naturally you can't have the reward
of see ng her work like horse to gel
those badgesl But the Girl Scout
Coutofu aaan her Rakwoon fiftv and
sixty thousand girls in this country
are working at their own desire, al
laying the foundations of that know
ledge which every father in this coun
try would rather give his daughter
than anything else in the world anc
every husband in the country wishes
his wife had learned earlier and
easier.
The next thing you want is fair
and-square, play-the-game sort Of
girl. This cannot be done by talk
ing about IL and handing dowr
preachments. The GIRL SCOUTS
TEACH 1T TO EACH OTHER
There's the difference between then
and many a worthy society of grown
ups.
Team play, democatic give-and
take in friendly competition, unde
the direction Of trained leaders, ar,
giving an unconscious schooling TO
life in a great democracy that wal
never so much needed as now, whei
a generation Of girls is growing vi
who will have greater effect OF
their country's laws and law-makinl
than any girls ever had before.