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Title: How Girls Can Help Their Country

Author: Juliette Low
Agnes Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell

Release Date: May 28, 2009 [EBook #28983]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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How Girls Can Help Their Country

Adapted from

Agnes Baden-Powell

and

Sir Robert Baden-Powell's Handbook

1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917

BY

JULIETTE LOW

Transcriber's note: Italics are signified by underscores, _, and bold is
signified by tildes, ~, around the words. In one spot in the text [=V]
is used to describe a V with a line above it and [V=] signifies a V with
a line below it.

Contents

Part I.
PAGE

HISTORY 1

HOW TO BEGIN 4

LAWS 7

SELF-IMPROVEMENT 9

Part II.

MEMBERSHIP 20

QUALIFICATIONS FOR GRADES AND RANK 25

ENROLLMENT 27

BADGES AND AWARDS 29

TESTS FOR MERIT BADGES 31

Part III.

GAMES 48

CAMPING 57

SCOUTCRAFT 68

STARS 83

GARDENING 92

Part IV.

SANITATION 94

HEALTH 98

HOME LIFE 106

Part V.

FIRST AID 124

Part VI.

PATRIOTISM 136

LIST OF BOOKS TO READ 142

INDEX