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EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE GIRL SCOUTS.

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By Louise Stevens Bryant,
Educational Secretary, Girl Scouts.

Contents.—History and growth—Activities—Methods—Organization.

Do you believe that girls should like to work at home, to cookand clean house and mind the baby? Do you believe that a girlshould like to take care of her clothes and be able to make them;that she should know how to be thrifty and to conserve the familymoney in buying and using food and clothing; that she should playa fair game and put the group above her personal interests? Doyou believe that she should value a strong healthy body above clothesand cosmetics, and rejoice in the hope of being some day the healthymother of healthy children?

If you do, you believe in the Girl Scouts, for in this organizationthe girls learn all these things in such a happy way that they liketo do them, which means that they keep on doing them.

The Girl Scouts, a national organization, is open to any girl whoexpresses her desire to join, and voluntarily accepts the promise andthe laws. The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls theopportunity for group experience, outdoor life, and to learn throughwork, but more by play, to serve their community. Patterned afterthe Girl Guides of England, the sister organization of the BoyScouts, the Girl Scouts have developed a method of self-governmentand a variety of activities that appear to be well suited to the desiresof the girls, as the 89,864 scouts and the 2,500 new applicantseach month testify.

HISTORY AND GROWTH.

Girl Scouts and their leaders, to the number of 89,864, were in1920 organized in every State, and in Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Alaska.There are troops in 1,400 cities, and local councils in 162 places. Thisrepresents a tremendous growth since the founding by Mrs. JulietteLow in March, 1912, of a handful of enthusiastic “Girl Guides” inSavannah, Ga. In 1915 the growth of the movement warranted itsnational incorporation; so headquarters were established in Washington,D. C., and the name changed to Girl Scouts, Incorporated. In1916 the headquarters were removed to New York, and are nowlocated at 189 Lexington Avenue.[4]

From the start the organization has been nonsectarian and open toall races and nation

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