lengths out of doors
with several feet, and several yards. Fences, roads, streets, dooryards,
houses, all can be judged as to length.

Height is less easy to estimate for we are not so accustomed to looking
up and down as we are to looking forward or back and forth, but the
same rules hold good. Learn to know the height of a chair seat, a table,
your own height, a room, a house, trees: by measuring and looking, and
looking and measuring, you will accomplish much.

To learn to judge weight begin by holding in your hand something that
weighs a pound; after holding it a few moments put it down and then take
it up again always trying to sense the weight. Do not use your eyes,
only your hand. Try a two pound weight and so on. Then take up something
else the weight of which you do not know and see if you can tell its
weight. Practice, patience and memory are necessary in this work.

There is another way of judging weight, one in which our eyes help us.
Knowing how a pound of butter looks as to size we can judge the weight
of a mass of butter by looking at it and comparing it mentally with what
we know. We can follow this method in judging the weight of different
goods, but as each kind when put in pound quantities looks more or less
different from every other kind, experience and knowledge of the
character of the goods is necessary. A pound of butter and a pound of
feathers do not make the same size bundle so the weight of each could
not be judged by the same eye standard.

By practice a Girl Scout should be able to do the following things in
the way of judging height, weight and distance:

(1) Be able to judge within 25 per cent the
following: Height of a tree, house, pole, etc.,
not exceeding 50 feet. Material, 1, 3, 15, 18, 27,
30, 36, 42 and 56 inches. Diameter of the trunk of
a tree, a pole, water pipe or similar object.
Distance of 6, 10, 15, 25 and 100 feet. (This is
useful in camera work.)

(2) Pick out from a miscellaneous assortment
bottles of 2, 4, 6 and 8 ounces. Bottles of 1
pint, 1 quart, 1 gallon. Pails, 1 pint, 1 quart, 2
quarts, 1 gallon.

(3) Be able without scales to weigh out specified
amounts of sugar, flour or other household
materials, for example, 1, 5 or 10 pounds.

(4) Be able to pick out from an assortment,
packages of rice, tea, c