OF SCOUTS AND GUIDES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 22

OF SCOUTS AND GUIDES

While we are all thinking of Boy Scouts, some of our thoughts may be spared for the Girl Guides. Girls started Scouting as soon as boys, and at the first Scout rally, held in 1909 at the Crystal Palace when the Scouts were a year old, a small body of girls paraded. They wore broad-brim-med hats, neckerchiefs over light, blousesj and dark shirts. Their hand-' book was "Scouting for Boys!" • Most people then thought Scouting uuwomauly, and so, in 1910, BadeuPowell suggested that the Girl Scouts should call themselves Girl Guides, and should concentrate on nursing, cooking, and needlework. Poor girls! The jolly games their brothers played were denied them, and yet their parents still frowned on Guiding, suspecting that, it was really a tomboyish and rather useless game. So the Guide movement lagged behind tho Scout movement in popularity until a lucky thing happened. In 1912 tho Chief Scout married a lady who seemed born to complete his great work.for youth. She could see better than a man what was the matter with the Guides. She threw herself into the movement heart and , soul, and the Guides became a complete success, so that in Great Britain now they actually outnumber the Scouts.