GIRL GUIDES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 21 August 1926, Page 13

GIRL GUIDES

“Let real interest be established in this column by true fellowship.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ EVERY-DAY IDEALS. Books give to all who faithfully use them, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. If you mean to act nobly, and seek to know the best things whicb God hath put within the reach of men, you must fix your mind on that end and not on what will happen to you because of it. No act falls fruitless; none can tell How vast its power may be. Nor what results unfolded dwell Within it silently. Influence is that subtle, inevitable effect which every man exerts on the lives of those around him. Are we helping them upwards or downwards? ♦ ♦ ♦ * AFTERWARDS. At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we had in it, but how much service we gave in it; not how full it wa s of success, but how full of sacrifice: not how happy we were, but how helpful we were; not how ambition was gratified, but how love was served. » ♦ ♦ ♦ A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. American Girl Scouts of Bridgeport, Connecticut, have lately adopted a very original method of swelling their funds. They organised a Cookie Day, baking and selling hundreds of cookies (i.e., cakes), all brought to a central meeting place at a certain time for inspection. These were packed in specially printed paper bags, each with a charming silhouette design of a Girl Scout carrying a plate and cup—the design of the Hostess Badge. Numerous orders were received in advance, for the plan was well advertised. Many of the department stores gave permission for the cookies to be displayed as part of their regular stock or on special tables for the day. The cookies ,after inspection, were all wrapped in oiled paper and slipped into the paper bags, and were then ready for sale. Two hundred and eighty dozen were baked by the Scouts and bought by the people of Bridgeport, the cookies being priced, at 25 cents (1/1) per dozen. Why should not Guides make use of such an idea ? What about waffles or mince-pies? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ SPRING, Yes ,at last we may begin to welcome spring. What a wonderful time it is! So full of hops and promise ami joy, and how strange it is that although it comes every year wo never find it wearying ur monotonous. At the moment your life is, as Robert Browning put it, “at spring.” For you all is the opening golden promise of the summer, the rich ripening of the autumn that is to be. It is said that older people overlook the fact that girls have their troubles,. Yes, it ia true. Older

people are not always at tolerant towards youth as they might be. Thing* always look different in retrospect They forget that the trials and worries of youth were once eery real to them, too. There it not always sunshine in spring. We have many cold wind* end very many rainy days. In youth we have many troubles, and they always seem to us very big, “A TRYING SEASON.” Perhaps you already know that spring ia often spoken of as a “trying season,” and youth is a trying time to its possessor. You see it is not so very long since you stepped over the border line that separates childhood from womanhood and, really, you are hardly used to the new country yet. Curious emotions surge over some of you from time to time and there are moments when you feel a stranger even to yourself. A girl was once deeply hurt because she overheard her mother say to a friend that “Doris was difficult.” It is true, however, because you are just as “difficult” to yourself as you are to other people. PREPARATION TIME. Now, iust think of your spring as a period of preparation, of testing even. You are getting ready for the great business of your summer, for the happy achievement of your autumn. Some folk say that they have vague and indescribable “feelings’ quite so, but don’t let them worry you. The cure for them is occupation of mind and body. Get all the fresh air you can and all the sleep. But be sure you get your sleep at the right end of the night. Never lie in bed in the morning, even on Sundays. That “dosey, drowsy” hour just before rising is enervating for both mind and body. Even if you feel sleepy, get out of bed, soon after waking, and if you are convinced that you have not had enough sleep, go to bed a little earlier at night. Set your mind on summer. Set your thoughts on the days that lie ahead. Don’t live too much in the present, and never waste titpe analysing your feelings. Life is yours, life as great and wide as tiq ocean enter into your inheritance and rejoice in it.