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Rh to have made other people succeed also. That is what the Girl Scouts want to do, just like the mountaineer guides do among the mountains.

Then, too, a woman who can do things is looked up to by others, both men and women, and they are always ready to follow her advice and example, so there she becomes a Scout too. And later on if she has children of her own, or if she becomes a teacher of children, she can be a really good Scout to them.

In fact, if one caricatured a Scout one would draw her thus:—"Turn to the right and keep straight on." And for these reasons the name Scout was given to them originally.

By means of games and activities which the Scouts practise they are able to learn the different things which will help them to get on in life, and show the way to others to get on also.

Thus camping and signalling, first aid work, camp cooking, and all these things that the Scouts practise are all going to be helpful to them afterwards in making them strong, resourceful women, skilful and helpful to others, and strong in body as well as in mind, and what is more it makes them a jolly cheery lot of comrades also.

"Be Prepared!"

The motto of the Scouts on which they work is "Be Prepared," that is, be ready for any kind of duty that may be thrust upon them, and what is more, to know what to do by having practised it beforehand in the case of any kind of accident or any kind of work that they may