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#ahjj - #aicj7          ,,the ,,girl    
,,scouts  ,a ,training ,school for      
,womanhood  ,by ,,kate ,,douglas        
,,wiggin  ,illustration  ,series ,no4   
#aa  ,,girl ,,scouts ,,national         
,,headquarters #ahi ,lexington ,avenue  
,new ,york ,city     ,a ,training       
,school for ,womanhood  ,by ,kate       
,douglas ,wiggin   ,i am heartily       
interested in the ,girl ,scouts of      
,america4 ,the fact is1 ,i think ,i was 
always a ,girl ,scout myself 7although  
the name was unknown72 yes1 from the    
very beginning4 ,even my first youthful 
story was scouty in tone1 if ,i may     
invent a word4 ,then for a few years    
afterward1 when ,i was scoutingly busy  
educating little street ,arabs in ,san  
,francisco1 ,i wrote books1 too1 for and
 about younger children1 but there came 
a time when ,polly ,oliver's ,problem   
brought me a girl public4 ,it was not an
 oppressively large one2 that is1 ,i    

never was mobbed in the streets by      
,polly's admirers1 but they existed1 and
 ,heavens6 how many letters they wrote6 
,i see now that ,polly was a real girl  
scout1 but faithful as she unconsciously
 was to the then unwritten laws of the  
sisterhood1 she faded into              
insignificance when my absolutely       
true-to-type ,scout appeared in the     
guise of ,rebecca of ,sunnybrook ,farm4 
,rebecca did not reform1 convert or     
uplift her seniors1 her parents1        
grandparents1 neighbors and             
constituents1 but she could never keep  
her hands off things that needed to be  
done1 and whatever enterprise was on    
hand there was ,rebecca to be           
found--sometimes on the outskirts1      
frequently1 ,i fear1 in its storm       
centre4  ,do you remember that it was   
,rebecca and her twelve-year-old friends
 who sewed the white stars on the       
,riverboro home-made flag1 just as the  
,roosevelt ,high ,school girls have been
 doing for their great leader these last

 weeks8  ,my summer home lies between   
two ,maine villages on opposite sides of
 the ,saco ,river4 ,there are ,girl     
,scouts and ,boy ,scouts in each of the 
villages2 but off the main roads1 almost
 on the fringe of the pine forests1 are 
boys and girls too far away from one    
another to reach any group4 ,one little 
chap said to me3 ,my brother ,tim wants 
to be a ,scout1 but there isn't anybody 
to be a leader and the boys live too far
 apart4 ,tim's got all the circulars and
 books and instructions and he can be a 
lone scout1 but he doesn't want to be a 
lone scout--,tim doesn't2 he wants to be
 with other boys4  ,the very words ,a   
lone scout suggested a story to me that 
,i have never written1 but wish that    
these words might reach the eye of a    
girl who would like to practise the     
scout virtues1 even if she cannot belong
 to the great band4 ,it is hard1 without
 the companionship and inspiration of a 
large friendly company1 to follow a     
secret ideal and an imaginary leader1 to

 be a lone scout yet to be working with 
thousands of unknown little sisters4    
,all the while that the lone scout is   
learning to be a woman--true1 brave1    
busy1 thrifty1 cheerful1 she can say to 
herself3 ,to help a little is to do the 
work of the world4 ,that is the real    
slogan of the ,girl ,scouts since for   
the most part they do little duties1    
assume small responsibilities1 carry the
 lighter burdens4 ,above all1 they learn
 to ,carry on6 doing a woman's work in a
 woman's way1 doing small things that   
women have always done as well as the   
new things that have opened to women1   
either by their own pluck or because men
 have at least given women a chance1 and
 doing them patiently1                  
self-forgettingly1 with the             
old-fashioned touch of a woman's hand4  
,the world isn't in need of women who   
are duplicates of men4 ,a girl should   
try to be the best scout in the world1  
if it is in her to go so far1 but she   
must remember that after all she is a   

,girl1 not a ,boy ,scout4