GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4047, 13 May 1938, Page 5

GIRL GUIDES’ CORNER

ITEMS OF INTEREST. (By “Ladybird.”) On Wednesday last a party of a dozen or more Te Awamutu Girl Guides journeyed to the home of their Captain, Mrs Bowler most of them using Shanks’ pony for the trip—and on arrival they were accorded a very cordial welcome. The purpose of the visit was to undergo tests for their second-class badge work. The first task was lighting fires, and it is understood most of the candidates gained passes. Tying knots was next on the list, and here again the number of passes was well up to expectations. Some stalking and tracking was done, but the hour vzas 100 late to permit of completion, so the Guides hope to pay another visit next week and complete the work. WHO, WHY, AND WHAT ARE THE GIRL GUIDES? Girl Guiding has a double meaning. To some it means the fun of playing the game of the Girl Guides; to others, the fun of “playing the game” in Guiding Girls. The desire' in producing the Guide scheme is to offer help to parents, teachers, and patriots who may care to avail themselves of it when it comes to the duty of training girls. The object of the Guide training is to give our girls, whatever may be their circumstances, a series of healthy and jolly activities which, while delighting them, will afford them a course of education outside the school in four particular lines of which there is the greatest need:— 1. Character and intelligence, through games, practices and activities, and honours and tests for promotion. 2. Skill and handcraft, encouraged through badges for proficiency. 3. Physical health and hygiene, through development up to standard by games and exercises designed for the purpose. 4. Service for others and fellowship, through daily good turns, organised public service, etc. Every girl who joins the movement has to make three promises to do her best:— 1. To do her duty to God and the King. She has to do her bit to make her little bit of the world happier and cheerier than it was, and she must do her best to carry out in everyday life her own creed or religion, whatever that may be. 2. To help others at all times. She must learn all she can cooking and sewing, ambulance, sick nurse, and child nurse work so that she may “Be Prepared” to help all she can, particularly in her own home. 3. To obey the Law of the Guides. With these principles as the foundation of the Guide movement every mother should see that her daughter joins and thus becomes proficient in subjects which in the ordinary course of life she would know nothing about.