GIRL GUIDES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 14

GIRL GUIDES

Tha swimming sports were rather a big day for Takaro, weren’t theyt—but we did’ all enjoy them, though we were outnumbered. Even Hangers managed a relay team. It was good to see them ■ »o active. They tell mo they have nearly finished the chairs for the Guide 1 and Scout Corner. I wonder how many of yon have been in to see the corner. It is such a lovely wee spot very Guide and Scoutev, and entirely our own. As you know it is just inside the door of Ail Saints’, so you could easily see it. Tenderfoot Test. The use of our flag, the Union Jack, does not seem to be very well know to many Guides. As yon all know, the flag represents our Empire, and ail those heroes and heroines who have fought or died in its service. As such we owe it due reverence. It is one of the greatest honours you can be offered when you are chosen to be in the Colour Partv, because the honour of the flag rests with you. Always carry it slowly, . the end held in your hand because the flag only hangs loose in the presence of Royalty, or when the National Anthem is played or sung. Then you hold your flag up straight and.let it fly. In olden days the flag was always taken into battle, andt he winner of the battle was that army whose flag still stood at the end of the day. The colour bearer held the fate of his whole army and sometimes his whole country in his hands, so he was given two colour guards, one on each side, to help him keep his flag flying high. Should he. the bravest man in the army, fall, it was the task of one of the guards to carry on his work. You can see the honour attached to the position of colour bearer of the country’s colours, and the tremendous responsibility it entailed. Now when you look at your flag you will Temember that it has been made | up of three crosses, St. George, St. '■ Andrew and St. Patrick. 1 The red plus cross in the centre be- . longs to St. George, who ist he Patro„ Saint of England. With the red goes ! the white border all around it. In the t 16th century the red plus cross on a | white ground was the flag of the English soldier. Holding it aloft they j marched forth to conquer. Then war cry was ‘'St. George for Merry Eng- i land.” When the Scottish and English crowns were joined in 1603 with the accession to the English throne of the Scotch King James, the white diagonal j cross on a blue ground, representing j Scotland and St. Andrew, was added to ' St. George’s cross. St. Andrew’s bine covered the background, so the white of St. George just remained round the red cross. Much later, 200 years in fact, Ireland threw in its lot with the other two nations, and the cross of St. Patrick of Ireland, a red diagonal cross on a white background, was added to the first Union Jack of 1606. To maku the new flag, St. Andrew was allowed only the broad white stripe which you see atthe top of the flag, and the narrow white of the other side, while St. Patrick’s red cross was placed on the rest of the white cross and St. Patrick’s white background became only the broad and narrow stripes at the bottom. Next time you look at the flag, see if you can find out the different flags, but aa even surer way to see if you really know them is to get your coloured pastels and try to draw the flag. It’s not as easy as it looks. The flag deserves a full salute from every Brownie, Guide and Ranger, as it passes you when it is carried past your lives after Church Parade, or at any time. And talking of salutes, let’s all try to make ours smart, shall we? Our elbows tuck well in, our two fingers for Brownies and three fingers for Guides stand very straight, and wo make a definite pause between the salute and the time when we bring our hand down smartly to attention. Practice in front of the mirror until you get yours really worthwhile. And smile, won’t you? A Visitor. At present we in New Zealand Guiding are very lucky, because Miss Knight, an English Guider of wide experience, is out here taking training

courses for Brownie folk and Guide folk. Nearly all the Brown Owl and Lawneys and pack leaders from Palmerston North are going for a week-end from April 1. The Guide captains and lieutenants are going from March 39 for their week-end, which they will spend at a lovely house in Lower Hutt. This house is owned by a good friend to Guiding, Mrs Wallis, who does her very best to help us in every way, so next month you will be learning all about the happenings at Wallis House, with Miss Knight, the English Diploma Guider, whom we hope to see in Palmerston North later inthe year.

Did you learn the new song, Little Sir Echo, last week? It was away over in the other corner of the paper. Here's such a pretty round for this week.

••White coral bells, on your slender stalk, Lilies of the valley deck my garden walk, Oh don’t you wish that you could hear them ring? That will only happen when the fairies sing.'' Have you started your folk dances for Shield Day or are you doing mors and gadgets first? Good luck to you all in your efforts. BROWNIE CORNER. Hokowhitu. Tu-whit! Tu-whoo! There were not verv manv Brownie uniforms to be seen at the swimming sports last Saturday, were there? —let us hope there will be a lot more to be seen on Shield Day; we are not quite sure of the date yet. Two Brownies were asking the meaning of T. 1.8. last Saturday; so in case there should be any others that do not remember, we will let you read for yourselves the Brownie meaning.

These three letters, T. 1.8., mean a lot, as you'll soon see. Every Brownie, every Guide, in these letters tako a pride. “Tuck in your Back" is what they say to those who exercise each day. “Tuck in your Buck" when sitting, standing; this your chest will be expanding! An inch more chest can bring true wealth —another term for perfect health. ‘‘Tuck iu jour Back" is mental, too, and can affect whatever you ! do. For if you have a piece of work tliats troublesome, inclined to shirk, |“Tuck in your Back" and you'll soon find jou've trained the muscles of jour jmind! B\* standing straight your brain grows clear and difficulties disappear. 'And so you will, if you are wise—be it !j*our moving exercise or daily task that makes its claim —“Tuck in j*our Back" and play the game. | And now, last, but not by any means j least, we give the new Takaro Pack a special welcoming Tu-whoo-00-o. ST. PAUL’S COMPANY At our meeting last week we had a visit from Hokowhitu Brownie Pack, i When two of the Brownies, Fay Tracy and Beryl Kengan flew and hopped up 'into Guides. We are pleased to wel- ‘ come a number of Brownies from St. * Paul *s Pack and we hope they will find ! Guides as interesting and enjjoyable as the time they spent in the Brownie Pack. So far this j'ear we have had one hike. Instead of our usual meeting at St. Paul's we went again to the rivet and cooked our tea —the ever popular sausages, saveloj’s and eggs, after whicn we had a nature game, and then a camp lire. It is much more thrilling singing around a fire than in a hall, and we hope to have some more outings of this kind. Friday night seems to be au inconvenient night for our meetings so we are changing it to a Tuesday night from 5.30 to 7 p.m.: This change wil. not take effect until March 22 as at present the Scouts have their meeting on Tuesdaj’s but they also are changing their meeting night. We are pleased to welcome back Favce Stevens who is now our lieutenant. A POEM TOFFEE APPLE I have got a toffee apple Stuck upon a stick, It becomes a smaller apple Every time I lick. How I wish that I could buy One that had the trick Of growing just a little bigger Every time I lick!

YYELCOME IN. Brian Williams, Feilding. Allan Christianson, Palmerston North. THANKS TO BETTY Hukanui. Dear Hub, I remember telling you When I was bridesmaid twice That it would be exciting If I was bridesmaid thrice. Well by the time you read this I will have been j r ou see, And judging by proverbs A bride I'll never be. Time will tell I dare say And now I'll have it said That I will write and tell you When I’m thirty and not wed. Also when you read this, In Auckland I will be, So for coming Saturdays You’ll not. hear hear from P. and P. The excitement is almost too much, I cannot sleep I fear. What with thoughts of Auckland And the wedding so near. I went to Palmerston North Thursday Two lovely frocks I spied, One alt sophistication With a wide sash tied. Two rows of pearls are worn with it, Tis such a georgous green. My brother said I resemblo A person whom j T ou’ve seen, In all the daily papers She caused an awful stir, And oh! a lot of folk have said

How I am like her. 'Tis the Duchess of Windsor And shj-ly I say it, Hoping j’ou don't think mo As adventuresome (I pray it). I also bought a morning frock, All shades of green and white, Trimmed with frilled organdy (I could'nt sleep that night). The weather here is colder, And I have been quite gaj', But I missed all the picnics I'm sorrj r to say. Sewing kept me in, Hub, And oh! my ej r es were sore, I hope to all good spirits They never hurt me more, And I hope it's fine on Wednesday And if the -cold-wind blows, Shivery I will be, Hub, And I imagine, red of nose. Oh! Snowy had an accident, The poor helpless mite Had his little front foot In a rabbit trap so tight. Chas. in the end released him But he is still so scared, Poor dear little Snowy He surety knows I cared For I found him hours after And nice fresh milk I brought And Snowy purred quite loudly 1 To tell me I'm a sport. Oh! it's cold to-day, Cogs, I fear the winter's near, Glad I'll be up North, Hub, When winter 's drawing here. A dear friend of mine, Hub, I must realty say Enabled me to leave soon For this my holiday. She's coming to help my mother, I thank her sincerely And I will think most often Of her, and very dearly. Her kind mother spared her, I also thank her, too, To her and Mum and Betty My thanks are surety due. This letter's grown most awfully. Bonnio Bluebell, I send My regards and love to you Before this rhyme I end. Love to little Jennifer, 'Tis her I'll miss a heap And I'll think of her often When I lie me down to sleep. This is all to-day, Hub, Sincerest thoughts to j-ou And to all the family I send my adieu. Powder and Patches. The Den hopes you will enjoy your trip north, P. and P., and that our Page won’t be minus your letter too long. Tokomaru. Dear Hub, —Hero I am at last. I went up to Dannevirke for a month. It was very nice, too. Did j*ou enjoy Christmas, Hub? The weather down here has been very hot and we have had plenty of blackberries lately but not many mushrooms. I came into Palmer- j ston North last Saturday to sec June Barson. Did you see her, Hub? The school children down here held their picnic at Plimmerton yesterday, but I did not go. The twinnies that are stopping with us have grown and got much fatter since I have been away. They are going home at the end of the month. I don't no what I will do without them because they are such dear wee things. Well, Hub, I will draw this letter to a close. Butterfly. P.B. Hasn't Fluttcrby written yet? she must be getting lazy. I’m afraid that Flutterby hasn't written for some time —but we are still . hoping Butterfly. Yes, I saw June . Barson and wasn't she a dear? Feilding. Dear Hub, —It’s such a long time . since I wrote to you but I've never missed the Page. I am now busy with the scrapbook as it closes soon. Dad is in bed with a bad cold. Well I must close as to catch the mail. ►Sunbeam. ►So sorry to hear Dad is iu bed with a cold, Sunbeam. Give him a “health germ" from the Page, will you?

Palmerston North. Dear Hub, —May I join your band of Cogs? I read the Page every Saturday and find it very interesting. I do like “Uncle Peter's Corner." I have just been listening to a detective story over the wireless and it was very interesting and thrilling. Well the swimming season will soon be over now. It has been an excellent summer for swimming, hasn't it? I went for a bicycle ride to Feilding the other day and enjoyed it as I like cycling very much. I have a vegetable garden at home and in it I have grown cabbages, tomatoes, beans, and many other things. I hope that my pen-name has not been already taken. X 13. Welcome in to our big Page, X 13 — you may have that for j’Our pen-name.

ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE As a boy he played with hooligans and scamps who used to fro* into the fields and roast frogs ana maKo grasshoppers broth. Later, he went on to the University of Gottingen, and became a medical student. lie was Robert Koch, born in Klausthal in Hanover in December, 1543, and he was destined to rid the world of the greatest menace to life it then had. The menace was consumption. Even now 100 people in the British Isles a day die from this disease, j’ct the number is much less than half the number carried off at the end of last century. For 50 years no advance had been made in combating the scourge. Then came young Robert Koch, and everything was changed. From the university he went into the Franco-Prussiau war as a surgeon, and in 1872 he becanio district physician in Wollstein. There for four years he carried out the duties of a family doctor, riding out iu all weathers, attending patients, making himself widely loved. No one guessed, however, that behind his consulting room was a small laboratory, and that there, with very inadequate apparatus, he was hounding down the tuberculus germ. One day he felt sure enough of his theory to speak of it to a medical friend, and the friend was beside himself with joy. He hailed Koch as the saviour of Europe, and his enthusiasm was no less than that of the entire medical world. A new weapon had been forged, and a mj-stery certainty 2000 years old was brought to light.

It was left to a Scottish doctor to put the new knowledge to the greatest use, and soon Robert Koch was able to feel that his discovery was enabling thousands of people to escape the terror which had so long held tlio world in awe. In 1905 he was awarded the . Nobel Prize, and in 1910 this great German passed on, leaving the world safer than it had ever been before. Feilding. Dear Hub, —I think it is just about time I wrote to you again. lam in Std. 1 at school now and I am glad school has started again because I like plaj’ing with the little children. We have got a lot of flowers in our garden now and I like picking them too, because they arc so pretty. AVe are going to the Waituna flower show to-night and I hope that there is a lot of things there. We had a lovely summer this year, didn't we? My sister and brother went away to Auckland this year and they had a good time too, and I would have liked to have gone too, but they come home when school had started again. We have got a lot of vegetables in our garden now, beans, peas and cabbages. We have got a lot of white butterflys and we have good fun catching them altogether. We have caught 1,126 in the last week. Little Bo Peep. You are energetic, Little Bo Peep—and j-ou are doing a lot of good work in helping to get rid of those pests which eat the farmer's crops.

ANSWERS TO SUB-PUZZLE 1. Submit. 2. Subside. 3. Subtract. 4. Subdue. 5. Sublime. 6. Subject. 7. Subsequent. 8. Subsidy. 9. Subsist. 10. Substantial. 12. Substance. 11. Subtle. FUN CORNER SOME RIDDLES FOR YOU Q. Why are clouds like coachmen? A. Answer. Because they hold the reins (rains).

Q. What word of five letters is never pronounced right? A. Wrong.

Dear Hub, —To-day seems to be very cold and as I sit and write I can hear hail falling on the roof, and the wind howling outside. I think it is an ideal start for winter, although it's somewhat early thinking of him. Last Wednesday we had our local sports. There was quite a large crowd present, and on the whole, I think cverj'one enjoyed themselves. There was a Highland band from Feilding playing and I think their company was very pleasant to the gathering. Fruit is growing in abundance up this way and I am sure that many of the orchards are very popular with “fruit dieticians." Hub, at school we have a journal called the “Apitinian," a copy of which I have enclosed to sec if you think it is a paper well worth public observance. We have had it in circulation for about six or seven months now, and it seems to be progressing very well now. For the benefit of other Cogs, if they would also like to read this paper, they could send in to the secretary, Apitinian Committee, C/o School, Apiti, and would have a paper sent to them immediately. All contributions of poetry and prose were given bj r some of the pupils and I am sure the editor has a difficult task in sorting pieces for publication. Did you watch the recent band contest? We listened in and enjoyed it very much. Well, I must close now as time is flying. Lily of Laguna. AVe were thrilled to receive a copy of “The Apitinian," Lily of Laguna—the poetry and prose in it are indeed an inspiration to Cogs. Best luck Editress! Feilding. Dear Hub, —I am very sorry I have not written to j’ou before this. I go to the Feilding High School now and like it very much. During the holidays I went camping and stayed at Auckland, Rotorua, New Plymouth and other places. Have you been to the Auckland Zoo, Hub? I have and think it's marvellous. It has been very cold here to-day and just feels like winter. Would you ask Mr Puz if we could have jumbled countries for a Skilltest, pelase, Hub? We arc having our school swimming sports on Thursday so I hope the weather is fine. Aren't the gardens looking gay, Hub, with bright dahlias? Spring Flower. AVelcome back again, Spring Flower. jAVhat about writing a story of ycur holiday for the Page? Hukanui. Dear Hub,—l received my badge from you to-day and I think its wonderful. I have been busy lately, as I travel i to Masterton every day to the Wai- • rarapa College, and it has been a busy , centre for a few weeks. All the boys ; there are now having barracks for a week in the cadets and isn’t it hot : marching. We have great fun on Sunday afternoons at the river with all the j*oung people. The Last Ranger. Glad you are proud of your badge, i Last Ranger. You do seem so to enjoy life!.

ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE MADAME CURIE “The foremost woman investigator." That is how Lord Rutherford described Marie Curie when she passed away a few years ago (says a writer in the > Melbourne Age). Her outlook upon life i and duty shone out in her declaration: r “Radium is not to enrich anj’one. It 1 is an element; it is for all people." If < any authority had the right to pro- < nounce dogmatically on the subject she i had earned it by a lifetime devoted to 1 scientific study and made glorious by i self-denial and self-sacrifice. The story as told by herself is a re- 1 cord of triumphs first at her husband's side as a skilled collaborator, and after wards as his successor in his chair at the University of Paris. She was of Polish origin, and her maiden name was Marie Sklodowska. She came from a line of small Polish landed proprietors, a group from which “Poland has drawn her intellectual recruits." Her father was Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Warsaw, and her mother was director of one of the best Warsaw schools for j'oung girls. Born iu 1567, Marie was the last of five children. Warsaw, being under Russian rule, suffered from the oppression exerted on the schools. The children were compelled to learn the Russian language almost before they hat! learned to speak their own. All instruction was given in,Russian, and the moral atmosphere was unbearable. One result was the deepening of patriotism in Polish youths. Marie was fifteen when she finished her high school studies, and always held first place in her class. At seventeen she left school to take up work as a governess Lived in Garret. It was iu IS9I that she arrived in Paris to enter upon the course of study which had beeu the dream of her life. Living in a garret, she found the cold of winter so keen, and coals so

expensive, that water would freeze in a ' basin, and to be able to sleep she hart c to pile all her clothes on the bed covers. : In 1894 she met Pierre Curie, already a well-known physicist, and the marriage took place a j’ear later. They began life in a little apartment of three rooms furnished bj r the parents, and a money gift from a friend enabled them to buy two bicycles. With splendid persistence she did most of her housekeeping, and at the same time continued her studies. Both she and her husband became specialty interested in Bacquerel’s experiments ou the salts of uranium. From that point they began research with radio-activity, and iu IS9S obtained polonium and radium, from pitchblende. 1 ‘The discovery and isolation of radium was of outstanding significance, both theoretical and practical. Its use in the treatment of cancerous growths is proved in the hospitals of the world." “One morning in the spring of 1898 Mario Curie stepped forth from a crude shack on the outskirts of Paris with the greatest secret of the century literally in the palm of her hand. It was one of the silent, unheralded moments in the world's history." So wrote Mrs Meloney, who planned for Marie Curie the appropriate gift of a gramme of radium. It was in 1902 that the existence and character of radium were de- | finitely established. In 1903 she obtained her doctor’s degree, and at the end of the same j’ear the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, her hus- \ band, and herself for the discovery of radio-activity and new radio-active ele- | ments. In 1906 she lost her husband. He was run over by a dray in Paris, and killed instantly. She felt unable to face ’ the future, but was inspired by remem- ' bering how he used to say that even if ' deprived of him she ought to continue her work. ' To her also at this crisis came the exceptional offer to her husband’s chair 3 in the university. No woman had ever 1 held such a position. A new precedent 1 had been created. At her installation 1 a large crowd of celebrities, statesmen. • and academicians assembled. Fine Forhead. , Suddenly through a small side door i entered a woman all in black, with 1 pale hands and high arched, forehead. 3 The magnificent forehead won notice ! first. It was not merely a woman who i stood before us, but a brain and living j thought. Her appearance was entliusio asticalty applauded for live minutes, i. With trembling lips she began her lee* ;. ture on the theories of radio-activity since the beginning of the nineteenth y century. In 1911 she received for the - second time the Nobel Prize, this time d alone. During the Great AA'ar she was sent by the Government to Bordeaux in charge of all the radium in her laboratory, and she rendered high service in e the field by providing radiological ino stallations in hospitals and also a e radiological car. In regions distant I from tho front she took care of many 1, hospitals and visited ambulance stair tions at scores of centres. Her work J was exhaustive and exhausting, and did something to shorten her life. d America’s Gift. c In the year 1921 she was invited to America to receive the gift of a l " gramme of radium (£20,000) from the e women of that great country. Tho 13 President made the presentation. It was on this occasion she said that radium was not to enrich anyone, and r * she insisted that a deed should be ir drawn up stipulating that in tho event of her death the gift was to become the property of tho Paris Radium Institution for exclusive use in the Labre oratoire Curie. She paid another visit r- lo America in 1929, and iu her later r»j years she saw her work continued by I- her daughter, Irene, and her husband.

Hero was a woman whose brilliant scientific attainments went hand in hand with a quiet dignified simplicity, which impressed all who heard her. She was, in a true sense, a selfless personality. Even during the war, when she ran her own radiological truck from hospital to hospital in the zone of operations, and in constant contact with mud and blood, she washed and dried and pressed her own clothes.

Fig.—d—Tricks With Soap Bubbles. • 1 It is great fun blowing bubbles, but. 1 1 did you know that by adding a little I 1 glycerine to the soap solution j’ou can jj blow much more durable bubbles than j* ordinarily? Such a bubble can be for instance be bounced on the palm of 1 your hand, if you very carefully ‘ ‘play 1

Fig.—e—Did You Know That The World is Not Quite Round? If j-ou were to take a perfectly round wooden ball and cut it up into four pieces as shown in fig. 1, these quarters would make up a perfect globe, no matter whether they were in the right order or not. However, if you think of the world cut up in the same way, on" slice through the equator, and one through the poles (fig. 2), the result would be rather different. The world is not a perfect ball, it is larger round the equator than from pole to pole, so that the pieces would not fit together at all if an equator piece was placed next to a pole piece, as shown inthe picture. It is the rotation of the earth that has made it, so to speak, flattened at the 1 poles, and bulging at the equator; the centrifugal rule exerts an influence no matter how large or small the object is. i The world then, is not a ball, but an A BRA ATE DOG L GAVE HIS LIFE FOR MASTER Recently in the back country of Wluiugauiomona, Taranaki, a dog gave ] her life for her master iu a desperate light with a wild boar. To shoot the pig the man had to catch hold of a branch and lean well out over tho bank of a creek and as he fired Hie > branch broke and he crashed headlong 1 into the creek bed. ‘ Toss, the dog, rushed in between the } pig and her master as the animal began t to charge at him as he lay winded and 1 blinded in the creek. lie wiped his 1 ej’es clear to see the dog meet the boar } head-on and fight like a tiger to stop t the infuriated animal. 3 Brave as the dog was, it was too ■ much to expect her to fight the boar - alone, and she was ripped twice in the t throat by the sharp tusks. That caused r her death, but still she fought on with 7 her dying breaths. Other dogs piled in from behind and then the w h«le strugt gling mass swept over the man. Either n a tusk or a hoof struck him on the side r , of the head, laying open an ear, and e down into the mud he went again, his I- senses reeling, and tho time ho had n picked himself up the dogs had full s- command of the situation. He quickly l- knifed the pig, which had been capturd ed only at the cost of the valiant dog. d Toss had died hanging on to the pig’s ear- and she still hung there after sho

Fig.—b—Who Can Help The Carpenter’s Apprentice?—lntelligence Test. Robert is apprenticed to a carpenter, and has been told to make a piece of wood to fit a hole in a floor which is being repaired. He has been given a piece of wood 2 feet by 3 feet bj r 2, and llie hole which is to be covered is 3 foot by Afoot, how is he to cut the wood when he may only divide it into two pieces which arc then put together again? This condition was emphasised expressty by Robert's master.

ball" with it. But there aie many other possibilities. Here is another: In the picture you will sec how it is ipossible to blow five or more bubbles I inside one another! A piece of glass or an inverted plate is used for this purpose, and is placed ou tho table. A natural drinking straw is dipped in the -oap solution, and is then held near the centre of the plate, where a large bubble is blown; it will in this manner be a semi-circle. Dip the straw again, and then blow yet another bubble, this time a little smaller. This can be repeated as long as there is room to blow bubbles, but always remember to moisten the straw thoroughly with soap solution or the bubbles will burst when it i# pushed through.

clipse, which rotates about its smallest axis; a so-called spheroid.

Table Flat, Apiti. Dear Hud, —AYell, here we uro again! I suppose other Cogs are at school but J have to do correspondence work at home. 1 like some of my' work, but some I don't like. Summer lias nearly gone, hasn't it? and winter will soon be here. I hope we don't have too much snow because it makes you too cold. I am getting my scrapbook done but I will have to hurry to finish it in time. Snow Queen. I hope the scrap-book comes up to your expectations—the Den is really quite anxious lo see what you Cogs have been doing ,Snow Queen. Feilding. Dear Hub,—l. am nine on April 26. 1 am in Std. 2 at school and enjoy it very much. School is about two and a hall miles from the river which is the closest place fit for swimming. Brian Williams. AVelcome in Brian to our big family. If you send threepence iu stamps your , will receive a membership budge. The , pen-name, “Popcyc" lias already be.mi taken. How about “Tom Mix"? 5 ■ - ■ [ died. Toss was buried on the scene of l her great fight and the camp was very r silent that night. Toss was well-known by the children . in Kawaroa Park, New Plymouth, i where she was a popular favourite and ) playmate..