The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-03
ByDoLLY DALRYMPLE

lines of work. Methods for giving these tests are set forth in the Girl Scout handbook and blue book of rules.
 Uniforms and Insignia
 Badges, insignia. buttons and of ficial kahki, constitute the uniform of the Girl Scouts and while 1t Is not compulsory for any of these mentioned articles to be worn by a scout, yet 1t is regarded as desira- ble that the uniform be worn. 4 Girl Scout may wear the official Girl Scout "armlet' until the whole troop is ready to don it's uniform.
 "Your Girl and Mine"
 Among the most interested workers and members of the Girl Scouts of America Is the well known. author, Josephine Daskam Dodge, who has written in a short story entitled. Your Girl and Mine" one of the most concise and incl/qe presentas tions of the subject which has yet been made. +~ *t
 Among other things Mrs. Dodge says:
 What do you think a 14-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 thoughtsi And though the schools work hard i at the problem. we all realize that they, alone, can't equip a young woman for life. H24 And we all feel, more and more, that between the ages of 10 and l6, girl. ought to be getting hold. some how, of the ideals and the practical hints that, more than anything she learns In any school, make a woman's life lean toward success or failure.
 "The Girl Scouts thing they have 1 found out the simplest, most praoti- 1 cal, most entertaining way of hand- l ling the problem of the growing girl. Just think. for a moment. what | you think a girl out to be-for every- body has ideas on this subjecti And when you have made your mental picture of the best sort of girl, the Girl Scouts think they can show her l to you.
 First she must be healthy. And you needn't add. happy, because a healthy woman is a happy one. Scout ing takes girls out into the open. hikes with them, teaches them every sort of woodcraft. camping and swimming-and teaches them, tatoo, how to do these things skilfully and independently. The elevators and gas | ranges and electric lights of civiliza- tion are losing out of the race those l 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 tand interest ing-don forget tha) preparation for the home and the child we hope she will 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 her, you understand why she doesn't. z
 Between fifty and sixty thousani girls in this country are working. at their own desire, at laying the foun- dations of that knowledge which every father in this country would rather give his daughter than anys thing else in the world, and every husband in the country wishes his wife had learned earlier and easier.M
 The next thing you want is a fair- and-square, play-the- game sort of girl. This cannot be done by talk ing about it and handing down Scouts teach 1t to each other. There's the difference between them and many a worthy society of grown ups
 Team play, democratic give-and= take in friendly competition, under the direction of trained leaders, are giving an unconscious schooling for life in a great democracy that was never so much needed as now"
 Conclusion
 In conclusion Mrs. Dodge says:
 If every town where they exist will look into the organization and ask the mothers and teachers of the girls what they think of 1t ,the Girl Scouts and their friends haven't d doubt in the world that the city fathers of that town will regard ta few Girl Scout Bonds as one of the best Liberty and Victory loans they ever floated!"
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