Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1919 — GIRL SCOUTS [ARTICLE]

GIRL SCOUTS

—From The Rensselaerien. The Girl Scouts were organized here the last of April, 1919, and have been doing very wel|. since. Today there are forty-nine Girl Scouts and many more want to join. This summer we went camping at Lake Maxinkuckee and we sure had fine times. The first day we got there we J were assigned to our rooms and given a program for the Each day one patrol of eight girls were on kitchen duty. We went for a one or two-mile hike every morning before breakfast and We ate everything that was eatable. We had so much candy that many of us were sick. Some of us were homesick when our folk£" did not come Sunday but Tuesday when we came home everybody wanted to stay another week. .The water was fine, we went in bathing twice a day and we also had a row boat. Many of us saw the Golden Eaglet and we were very much impressed by it. Many of the Girl Scouts are going to try for it. We have to get fourteen different merit badges to get the Golden Eaglet. Some of them are cook, clerk, needle woman, sick nurse and swimmer. For a needle woman’s badge you must know how to: 1, Cut and fit and how to sew by machine and hand; 2, Know how to knit, embroider or crochet; 3, Bring two garments cut out by herself; sew on hook and eye and buttons. Make a buttonhole. 4, Produce satisfactory examples of darning and patching. So you see the Girl Scout work is not all play and no work. We go hiking too where we have camp fires and toast marshmallows, weinies and faces included. This week the Girl Scout Campaign is on and everywhere you go you see Scouts. Every Scout’s mother is wanted to help ,in this drive. Everybody is wanted to give one dollar —just as much as you gave to the Red Cross. You can give more or less but we want your dollar. We are to get about four hundred and ninety dollars, so boost and have your money ready when the Girl Scout canvassers come, wear the button or the tag they give you and show you are a Girl Scout Booster. —ELLEN KRESLER, age 12. Grade 8.