Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-13
HEART TASTES OF 1924
GIRL LIKE GRANDINA'S

AA1 sis "a sOuay nave the same
interests and inclinations that their
sisters of hundred-aye, a thousand
years ago hadI r..
Ask Miss Alice Sandiford. She
ought to know.
Miss Sandiford is a national reg
ionaI director Of the Girl Scouts of
America. More than 100000 girls
come under her direction and obser-
walton. She gets reports of all of
them and knows their innermost de-
sires and longings.
Miss Sandfford has just returned
from England where she attended an
international encampment of Girl
Scouts, where there were girls from
thirty-seven countries.
Miss Sandiford's home is in Boston.
She is in Kansas City to give a short
lecture course on training leaders for
the Girl Scout movement.
All Girls Alike
"To start with" .aiss Sandiford
said last night, "the American girls
are no different from the girls of 9TH
er countries. They have the same
feminine whims and desires as their
European OF their Japanese sisters.
"And as for the European girls be-
ing more feminine than our Amer
lean girls-no. The European girls,
as general thing, are little more
polite and polished than the Amer
lean girls, but what of that? The
same thing is true of the men. -.
"And as for all this talk about the
girls of today giving up their fem
mime traits and characteristics for
careers or ventures in business
there is nothing to it.
"Qf the 100000 Girl Scouts we
have in America, by far the greatest
majority of them are more interested
in home work and baby nursing than
in Office work or professional careers"
Glass Choice Show Tastes
Miss Sandiford explained how she
arrived at the above conclusion. The
Girl Scouts are offered a number of
subjects for study, from art to home
laundry and soap-making. A girl
may take her choice of any subject
offered and when she finishes it she
is given merit badge" Since
there is nothing compulsory about
taking any one subject the girl choos-
es the one that has the greatest ap-
peal to her.
The "merit badge" is a small insig-
MIA worn on the sleeve of the dress.
Each branch has its peculiar symbol.
The notebook" for instance, is the
symbol for business while the ''fruit
jar" shows that the wearer has COM
pleted the study in canning fruit.
do you suppose there are more
winged Wheels the symbol of the
motorist, or more 'fiatiron' insignias,
the symbol of the finished laundress
Miss Sandiford asked.
"FlatirOn" Leading Course
"There are almost twice as many
'fatiron' symbols as all the others put
together. And why? Because,
knowing how to wash clothes, how
to remove the stains, and how to iron
and fold the linens and shirts has by
far greater appeal to girl than
knowing how to care for and drive
a motor car.
Strange? To men, yesl
"A girls heart is as it always was.
A girl is far more interested in know
ing how to make jelly and jam than
she is in writing legible hand and
forty words a minute She much
prefers to know how to care for
child than how to keep books.
"a review of the number of merit
badges worn by the Girl Scouts
shows second to laundry work comes
the maltese cross the symbol of
child nursing. The 'gridiron' is third
and among the others near the top
is the fruit jar
"Such insignias as the palette, SYM
Dol of the artist, or the harp, symbol
of the musician, are near the bottom.
"In many instances" Miss Standi-
ford said, "the mothers are directly
to blame for their daughters being in
Offices. The mothers who went
through hardship and drudgery in the
kitchen, wanted their daughters to
do something easier in an Office. -
Kansas City Times.
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