as a Guide is to steel yourself to
face it and to help the poor victim. As a matter
of fact, after a trial or two you really get to
like such jobs, because with coolheadedness and
knowledge of what to do you feel you give the
much-needed help.

_The Value of Nursing._--In this war hundreds and
hundreds of women have gone to act as nurses in
the hospitals for the wounded and have done
splendid work. They will no doubt be thankful all
their lives that while they were yet girls they
learnt how to nurse and how to do hospital work,
so that they were useful when the call came for
them. But there are thousands and thousands of
others who wanted to do the work when the time
came, but they had not like Guides, Been Prepared,
and they had never learnt how to nurse, and so
they were perfectly useless and their services
were not required in the different hospitals. So
carry out your motto and Be Prepared and learn all
you can about hospital and child nursing, sick
nursing, and every kind, while you are yet a Guide
and have people ready to instruct you and to help
you in learning.

In countries not so settled and protected as England and America, where
the women and girls are taught to count upon their men to protect them
in the field, the Girl Scouts have sometimes had to display a courage
like that of the early settlers. A Roumanian Scout, Ecaterina Teodorroiu
actually fought in the war and was taken prisoner. She escaped, traced
her way back to her company, and brought valuable information as to the
enemy's movements. For these services she was decorated "as a reward for
devotion and conspicuous bravery" with the Order of Merit and a special
gold medal of the Scouts, only given for services during the war. At the
same time she was promoted to the rank of Honorary Second Lieutenant.

Can we wonder that she is known as the Joan of Arc of Roumania?

During the Russian Revolution the Girl Scouts were used by the
Government in many practical ways, as may be seen from the following
letter from one of them:

"The Scouts assisted from the beginning, from
seven in the morning until twelve at night,
carrying messages, sometimes containing state
secrets, letters, e