THE GUIDE MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 12

THE GUIDE MOVEMENT.

■ •-£'■ For some reason or other in these days girls look less : .to': ! their; mothers than they . 'did in the past for help and counsel. : One need not, however, discuss the matter here. .: The world seems to have accepted the fact, and there has sprung , into being the Guide Movement, which & -comes to - the. rescue of. girls who are still • -"quite ': dhildren -and; Carries Ahem oyer* ; tiiat difficult • age, which isentiment has *decribed as ' "sweet seventeen. lo beein with guides at ; work, no \ matter howlarge the number of onlookers, whatever the time or the place, seem wondrfully B and delightfully lacking in self-conscious- --• ness. They- go. about their: tasks with a sinGle eye. >■ There is no posing, no look- : -in round for applause. : They are doing ■ >; •'•: their work to" the best of their ability and >• nothing : else matters. - Perhaps it -is the ? neat f simplicity of f their \ uniform which helps them. v Then, too, they have learnt to act in the corporate . spirit— ' the honour of the troop counts for more than individual success. 1 The girl guide, % she is in earnest, is l preparing to as- . sume the office of ranger,: she is learning -to face •responsibility, and will have- : no one to fall back upon in time of dim- ' culty. ! The fresh .charm of sweet seventeen" 'is still, there, 4 but the 'under cur- ' : rent has a steadier.'flow.