BE PREPARED

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3210, 22 September 1934, Page 6

BE PREPARED

GUIDE NOTES

BADGES Directly you have passed your Second Class -test you are quite ready to start to work hard for all those wonderful badges- you see decorating the sleeves of the older Guides. New, it is never a wise thing just to take a badge merely for tlie sake of serving it on your sleeve, and at first, at any rate, I want you only to try for the useful ones, and those which will help you towards gaining your First Class badge.- , . .. Ambulance, Child-nurse, Cook, Needlewoman, and Swimmer are all badges that you should hold one day, and remember Sportswoman too, for it is just as important to keep your body as fit and alert as your mind. Try to get someone to help you while you are working for your Ambulance badge, someone who really knows something about it. It is not much good learning things from a book and being able to discuss them in theory unless you are able to discuss them in practice. Learn all you can about the boAes and structure of your body, and Avhere all the main and important arteries ancl blood vessels lie, and concentrate on roller bandaging, and the folding of slings too. The Cook's and Needlewoman's badges are really more of the home type, and you can easily practise for them there. Mend your own clothes, and if possible, ask mother to tell you a few things about her pet recipes. It is all very well to be able to camp cook in the open air splendidly, but you must cook well in.the kitchen too. Swimmer's is more of a summer badge and is a wonderful asset to any Guide. And now about Sportswoman's, ■which is a true test for a healthy Guide. I want you to play games all you can, and play them in the team spirit, unselfishly and well. For this badge you have to be able to follow tracks and trails correctly too. Eemembcr Guides, that badges are awards of merit, but I do not want any of you to turn into what are known in some Companies I have met as "badge

grabbers," the kind of people who get all the badges they can, work hard for them, and as soon as they get .them forget all they stand for. Learn your ; work thoroughly and remember that . anybody is entitled to ask you ques-4-tions about the badges you wear. r^fPk A GIRL GUIDE Somebody said that it couldn't be done But,she with a chuckle replied, '' That maybe it couldn't but she would be one Who wouldn't say no till she tried."'... So she buckled right in with the traco i trace of a grin On her face. If. she worried she hit - it. ■% She started to sing as she tackled tkcJjL thing - /. jj; That couldn't be done, and she did .it. -".;'.-' lT .gtff- \\\ J P ' NOTES " :: '■- ;" A Guide and Brownie social and Brownie flying-up ceremony will be held in the Guide Hall at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 29th September. All interested friends are welcome. Wo would like to see all the mothers of Guides, and Brownies at this social. A whisper comes from District Headquarters about the rally on 27th Octo- ~ ber, and that is: "Commence right now and brush up your Tenderfoot and Sec- . ; : end Class work." / Our District Commissioner has offer-, .; ed a little prize to the Brownie, Guide or Eangcr who sends in the best design for a sketch block to be used as ayi heading for a Guide column. All di'aw- . ings to be Bin. wide and- 2in. deep, drawn on plain white "paper in Indian ink and sent to "Captain," 6 Pembroke .Street, Hamilton, not later than , Monday, October Ist. : Guides remember your sand-shoes to-- _ day and we will do some gymnasium, (iM The senior gym. squad will meet on v.: Thursday next, at 7 p.m., as usual. r,l p