Evening star., 1925-03-21
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

There are two events" this week
concerning girls. How to put girls
into the background" is a problem
dlrls gravitate toward the fore
ground most naturally Ayaunt. the
female Of the species"
The first event" is the effort of
the Girl Scouts to raise IS. 600. which
Is the quota assigned to the Wash
ington troops. The second event is
10 see how the Camp Fire Girls cele-
brated the birthday of their organi-
Zation on st. Patrick's day without
fear of snakes. Last week the Back
ground Of Events discussed Boy
Scouts. Under the rule. Safety
nrst, 1t Is absolutely required that
the girls be taken with equal serious
ness, now that it is their turn. II
actually transpireS that there are be-
nighted men who do not know the
difference between a Girl Scout and a
Camp Fire Girl. All girls look alike
to them-little girls.
There are old fogies who have been
saying mean things about the oncom-
ing generation Of girls-they bob
their hair, they powder their noses
they chew gum. But they-the fogies
do not know the high ideals of both
the Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire
Girls. They are different" but not
queer" They are brave and self
reliant, wholesome and good to look
at while at play or work.
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Last week the Girl Scout hea dquar-
ters received an emergency call from
one of the churches of Washington
for squad of Scouts to assist in
tableaux with Boy Scouts. When the
boys saw the skirts coming, and
learned that they were to pose in the
tableaux in the various acts of Red
Cross first aid-tying up broken
noses or splinting fractured arms
one OF the heroes is reported to have
run behind the scenes and declared
that no girl was going to bandage
him. He was dragged out by the
scruff of the neck and held while the
Girl Scout, with sober face but dane
Tag eyes. did him UP like a trussed
bird ready for the oven. All through
the tableaux the heroines were more
deadly than the heroes" according
to the official records kept in the
"home, sweet home headquarters"
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There is one Girl Scout who lives
not very far from the headquarters
in an old but spacious house painted
white. Her name Is Mrs. Calvin Cool
idge, and her grade is that OF hon.
orary commissioner. The two vice
presidents are Mrs. woodrow Wilson
and Mrs. w. II. Taft. These three
scouts do not take their Offices as
sinecures, but work. There are sew
eral scouts whose husbands are Off
GERS in the Army or have Government
"jobs"-sucb as Mrs. Herbert Hoover
whose official grade in the scout par
lance is president" It must be that
she belongs to the transportation
branch of the Quartermaster corps
for last year when the National Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs had a per-
fectly good house-modeleda after that
one where John Howard Payne wrote
poetry-the ladies wanted to give the
house to the Girl Scouts. If they would
take it away from the park, near
Sherman's statue. AS soon as Quar-
termaster Mrs. Hoover learned that
the house had to be moved, she moved
il. She had heard that the Navy
had a motto, "It can't be done, but
here IL Is"
That house now belongs to the
national Girl Scouts organization
but one room is rented by the local
Girl Scouts, and as the nationals
have no immediate use for the rest
of the nicely furnished rooms. they
are occupied and used also, without
rent by the local scouts with their
stunts in caring for the baby-a doll
manikin-and in sewing and all sorts
of scout activities.
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ington. TheH might be thousands II