Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — Boy Scouts Like Knights of Old. [ARTICLE]

Boy Scouts Like Knights of Old.

When good King Arthur ruled, boys were trained for knighthood, 1 says a writer in the Christian Herald. This began when they were seven or eight years of age. Their first course was when they gave seven or eight years of constant attendance and waiting upon a master and mistress. They were taught religion and morals and love by the chaplain. They were taught to walk as soldiers, and to ride as brave hunters. They were accustomed to military exercises and athletic sports. They voluntarily suffered heat and cold, hunger and thirst, fatigue and sleeplessness in order that they might become hardened. When between fifteen and sixteen years of age the “pages” became “squires,” and in the ordinary course of chivalrous education "knighthood” was reached in early There is much in the Boy Scout movement of today that reminds us of the training for knighthood. The solemn promise made by a Boy Scout at his initiation is "I will be a friend to every living creature, man or beast, and a brother to every other scout, fortunate or unfortunate, rich or poor. I will be courteous to aIL”