GUIDE NOTES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21726, 7 March 1936, Page 10

GUIDE NOTES

(By the Provincial Secretary) Miss M. Hawkins (Waddington) and Miss A. Anderson (Methven) have passed the brown owl warrant papers. ■ Founder’s Day Service This service will be held to-morrow in the Cathedral. All companies are to line up in order of arrival outside the guide office at 2.15 p.m. If wet, all companies ' will go straight to the Cathedral, If the weather should be showery, ring the guide office after ■ 4 l p.m. All packs will go straight to the Cathedral, and should, be seated by 2,30 p.m. Only those guiders who attended the practice on Tuesday evening are to sit in the chanCel. As soon as their company or pack has been seated the guider is to go straight up to the chancel. All friends and any who are interested in the movement are welcome. Quest of Skill (Canadian Guider) . A great deal is heard about handicrafts in the girl guide movement, and there are many badges to encourage various kinds of handwork. By the time a girl has reached ranger age she should be able to choose one or two things that she definitely likes to do or to make, and so specialise along those lines. Rangers should not be of the type, who “dabble” in things, it may be fine to know a little bit about many things, but is it not better to be a master of one thing rather than a jack-of-all-trades? Many girls, finding through their company that they have a special flair for some particular line of handicraft, have later earned their living by following that line of work. A • thrilling array of., things may be offered to a-com-pany of rangers, such as toy-making, basketry, weaving, block-printing, book-binding, sketching, and so on. Each ranger may choose whichever she prefers, but one choice is enough until she finds out whether her skill lies in that line. How splendid it would be in this search for craftmanship if many, rangers were td develop skill enough to justify their going out and instructing others in their chosen hobby. It would be a mistake to try ..to mould a whole company in one pattern. It might be easier for the captain to obtain one instructor ini' stead of three, but remember that all may not want to become wood carvers, but one girl-,may have decided talent | in that line that needs directing. Some may prefer -to learn sewing and embroidery; others may have yearned to know how to do leather work or dip chocolates. Let it be a real case of every man according to his taste and lot each one become proficient in one thing, at. least this year. Headquarters’ Levy There are still a number of' companies and packs who have riot paid in their levy. Please remember it is now due and qgist be paid in before the end of this month.