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Title: The Girl Scouts Their History and Practice

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: August 26, 2009 [EBook #29810]

Language: English

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GIRL SCOUTS

THEIR HISTORY AND PRACTICE

"_Be Prepared_"

[Illustration: Emblem]

[Illustration: LESSONS IN FOOD CONSERVATION]

GIRL SCOUTS
Incorporated
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
189 Lexington Avenue
_New York City_

_Series No. 6_

GIRL SCOUTS

MOTTO
"_Be Prepared_"

[Illustration: Emblem]

SLOGAN
"_Do A Good Turn Daily_"

PROMISE

On My Honor, I Will Try:
To do my duty to God and to my Country
To help other people at all times
To obey the Scout Laws

LAWS

I A Girl Scout's Honor is to be trusted.
II A Girl Scout is loyal.
III A Girl Scout's Duty is to be useful and to help others.
IV A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every
other Girl Scout.
V A Girl Scout is Courteous.
VI A Girl Scout is a friend to Animals.
VII A Girl Scout obeys Orders.
VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful.
IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty.
X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought, Word and Deed.

GIRL SCOUTS

_History of the American Girl Scouts._ When Sir Robert Baden-Powell
founded the Boy Scout movement in England, it proved too attractive and
too well adapted to youth to make it possible to limit its great
opportunities to boys alone. The Sister organization, known in England
as the Girl Guides, quickly followed it and won equal success.

Mrs. Juliette Low, an American visitor in England, and a personal friend
of the father of Scouting, realized the tremendous future of the
movement for her country; and with the active and friendly co-operation
of the Baden-Powells, she founded the