THE GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 5

THE GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT.

The idea of Girl Guides is not altogether a new one, for in various forma and under various names it .has been in vogue for some years; but the definite object of installing all over New Zealand Girl Guides taught on one principle, with the same ambitions and aims that their English sisters hold, is more or less an innovation. The motive is a splendid one. A girl is given three persona! ideals to make her ownhonour, self-respect, and reliability. She learns to demand the best from herself and expects everybody else to do likewise; she learns that her body is a sacred possession. whose health she must guard jealously, and, further, she learns to be ready for any emergency, no matter how unexpected it may be. These three aims in themselves are sufficient to cause an evolution if properly imbued in her. But besides these she aspires to other heights less ideal but more practical. Through a series of games she learns various lessons of usefulness. The rewards for virtue are highlyprized badges, and to win these she applies the knowledge learnt so easily from games to something worth while and helpful. After she has proved her efficiency, and not until then, is she rewarded for her diligence. The result is that by indirect ways and imperceptible means the girl prepares herself to be a home-maker of the firstorder, and learns the highest lessons of womanhood without realising that they are lessons at all. The Girl Guide movement seems to bo so splendid a system and withal so co-opera-live a one. that it can spell nothing but good for the community. When it is firmly established hero in Now Zealand, and the girls of rich and poor are included in'"its ranks, look for a raoa of perfect women!