release men to go to the front.

At home and in their club-rooms they have made
bandages for the wounded, and warm clothing for
the men at the Front and in the Fleet.

At home in many of the great cities the Guides
have turned their Headquarters' Club-Rooms into
"Hostels." That is, they have made them into small
hospitals ready for taking in people injured in
air-raids by the enemy.

So altogether the Guides have shown themselves to
be a pretty useful lot in many different kinds of
work during the war, and, mind you, they are only
girls between the ages of 11 and 18. But they have
done their bit in the Great War as far as they
were able, and have done it well.

There are 100,000 of them, and they are very
smart, and ready for any job that may be demanded
of them.

They were not raised for this special work during
the war for they began some years before it, but
their motto is "Be Prepared," and it was their
business to train themselves to be ready for
anything that might happen, even the most unlikely
thing.

So even when war came they were "all there" and
ready for it.

It is not only in Great Britain that they have
been doing this, but all over our great Empire--in
Canada and Australia, West, East and South Africa,
New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, West Indies,
and India. The Guides are a vast sisterhood of
girls, ready to do anything they can for their
country and Empire.

Long before there was any idea of the war the
Guides had been taught to think out and to
practise what they should do supposing such a
thing as war happened in their own country, or
that people should get injured by bombs or by
accidents in their neighborhood. Thousands of
women have done splendid work in this war, but
thousands more would have been able to do good
work also had they only Been Prepared for it
beforehand by learning a few things that are
useful to them outside their mere school work or
work in their own home. And that is what the
Guides are learning in all their ga