Why Not Girl Scouts?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 2 November 1910, Page 54

Why Not Girl Scouts?

The Boy Scout movement, suggested originally, we believe, by Ernest Thompson Seton, and taken up in England by General Baden Powell, is growing in this country very rapidly, and will probably soon be another picturesque feature of our more or less picturesque civilisation. The boy scouts are a large army, graded according to age and general ability. A boy is placed according to what he can do and the measure of his honour. He must be able to make a camp, hunt and fish, walk long distances, be familiar with woodcraft, rescue people in emergencies, and prove his self-reliance in many ways. Unless politics get into this new machine it ought to prove effective. But why confine the movement to the boys? Why not have girl scouts also? They could be taught, for example: To wash dishes. To learn the use of a broom. To wear simple clothes. To avoid elang. • • To help mother. To learn something about how to take care of a young baby. To speak respectfully to their parents.