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222 home for a period of three months, keeping the accounts, and superintending all the housework that is done when she cannot do it all herself.

Industrial Worker.—To win this badge a Citizen Scout must support herself for at least three months, and bring a certificate from her employer to prove she has done this.

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Each Citizen Scout troop should when possible, take up some definite form of public service. When such group work is not possible, each individual can find real public service opportunities open in any number of fields.

Scouting gets its "punch" from actual participation in doing things worth while. Therefore, use study clubs, lectures, books, etc.; as may be necessary but base your tests on actual deeds performed. First a follower (learner) and then a leader. A Citizen Scout can observe and study law-making in progress in a local board of supervisors of a county or city council or state legislature: or report on a session of court covering at least one full legal case. She might visit the freight terminal, and follow the milk delivery to the door of the consumer; or find a voluntary job in a creche, hospital or old ladies' home, and do something worth while for thirty hours. She might attend a meeting of the School Board; help with school luncheons, and follow the work of the school nurse in the home. Any girl who will follow up any department of government and actually take part in it for a week—whether in street cleaning or reading to blind old ladies—will always thereafter