GIRL SCOUT LEADER

.,; . MAY, 1937

VOLUME XIV Preserving Our Musical Heritage NUMBER 5

By MARION F. GALVIN

UR f o r e fa t h e r s be­ dians, Spanish groups, Ger­ O queathed to us many mans from Fredericksburg tokens of the lands they left (Texas), and Acadian groups to settle in this brave neyv from Louisiana sang their world. The names of many songs to the accompaniment of our cities and towns, the of the harp or the fiddle . . architecture of our oldest · Girl Scouts are among the buildings, the family names, devoted friends of the folk the customs and traditions in song, for an interest in their certain sections of the country own community, whether it is are all part of· our heritage Los Angeles or a seacoast from the English, the Swedes, town in Maine, leads them the French, the Netherland­ into the alluring bypath of ers, and the Spaniards who its music. Mr. Winston were among the early Ameri­ Wilkinson, who holds a fel­ cans. Perhaps their best gift lowship in folk music at the to us is the wealth of songs University of Virginia, and and dances that are found in who permitted the Girl Scouts various parts of the country­ to use in Sing Together three songs and dances that have of the songs he has collected, kept something of their origi­ From New Mexico says he "can imagine no finer nal character and yet have gift to our young citizens-to-be taken on the imprint of the different generations who and to the mothers of the coming generation than an have sung them. Kentucky mountaineers sing ballads opportunity to learn these incomparable folk songs which that originated in England; folk songs heard in South­ have their roots in ·our remote past and which belong ern California and New Mexico may be traced to Spain; to the children by · right of birth." Girl Scouts sing in the Great Lakes region many a song is reminiscent folk songs in their camps; and in many a camp one of the .Swedes and Norwegians who settled there. may hear the clear notes of a shepherd's pipe playing The preservation of this priceless material has until an old ballad while groups of minstrels and actors sing recently been of concern mainly to students of folk the words and pantomime the action. The girls of music and customs, like Cecil Sharp, whose compila­ Troop 10, Chisholm, Minnesota, became interested in the tions of songs from the Appalachian Mountains marked songs that were sung in their families and made a col­ an important step in the history of American music. lection of them. The booklet includes songs from Fin­ Recently, however, there has been an awakening interest land, Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Ukraine. among Americans in this folk music, in its evolution, Recently a number of interesting books have been its preservation, and its relation to the whole body of ~ published containing the folk songs or games of par­ American music. Music departments of colleges and ticular sections of America. Girls Scouts who live in universities have been doing valuable research in their the parts of the country from which this folk material own states, seeking out the songs that are traditional,- comes will, of course, be especially interested in ·these which should not be lost. · collections; but girls everywhere will enjoy singing · the The Folk Festival Council of New York, which was songs, dancing to the play-party games, and reading of formed to encourage wider participation in our folk the thrilling experiences of the collectors. heritage, has in five years become nation-wide in its membership and world-wide in its resources. Another SwiNG AND TuRN: Texas Play-Party Games, collected. organization, the National Folk Fe~tival, held its third by William A. Owens (Tardy, 1936, $2). annual gathering in Dallas last year while Texas was In the early days of this country people of all ages celebrating its hundredth birthday. gathered in the towns and villages to dan'Ge and· sin& ·at Miss Sarah Gertrude Knott, the director of the Na­ play-parties. Youngsters s~t in co,;ners and':'tSCOUT LEADER "If She Ever Gets Time-" By MARGUERITE TWOHY and MARIE GAUDETTE

OUR announcer is Marguerite Twohy: meeting, here are some of the things that may happen. Y For a long time we have been hearing and seeing The girls and leaders may bring samples of all the "hob­ and feeling in our bones that it won't be long now until bies" they can find. The girls may tell about their own the new leisure will be upon us. Some of us wish it hobbies. Perhaps. they will invite some of their friends, would hurry a bit. boys and girls, who have hobbies. It may even be that Though we adults may not soon be kicking our heels parents will exhibit hobbies. A qualified person may and twiddling our thumbs, it seems more than likely that come to the meeting and talk about hobbies, or they the young people of today will arrive at our advanced may invite several persons in the community to talk ages with more "time to stand and stare" than they about their hobbies. need or want or can use unless we prepare them for Undoubtedly there will be an exhibit of publications, this time. which will include copies of The American Girl, the Let us think whether or not our girls are developing Girl Scout Handbook, books on handicraft, nature, interests now that will provide emotional and intel­ sports, and all other interests the girls can find. There lectual outlets twenty or thirty years hence. will probably also be such pamphlets and books* as It may be of interest to you to know that at a recent The Choice of a Hobby by Anne Carroll Moore ( Comp­ meeting of Girl Scout leaders we discussed in groups ton, 5 cents), Care and Feeding of Hobby Horses the following question: "To prepare our young people (Leisure League, 25 cents), How to Run a Hobby for adult living,' what interests and· activities can you Show (Leisure Magazine, Readers Service Bureau, 10 find in the Girl Scout program that can be followed cents), Hobbies for Everybody by Ruth Lampland under one or all of the following circumstances?" (Harper, $3), and the 1936 Girl Scout Diary (now 1. In old age. out of print) if one can be found. 2. Without money. It might be fun to divide the people into groups and 3. In poor health. let the leader of each group, with eyes closed, select 4. In moving about the country away from home or a slip of paper from a sheaf of slips on which have (in this trailer age). while traveling with your been written the eight situations listed in the begin­ home. ning of this article. In groups they will discuss, using 5. Out-of-doors alone. the exhibit and source material present, what special 6. Out-of-doors with one or more persons. interests would meet the situation or situations described; 7. Indoors with one or more persons. and also what facilities are available in the community 8. Out-of-doors in any kind of weather. for following such interests during the summer vaca­ Although we have no gazing crystal that will accu­ tion. rately tell the future needs of our young people, may They may decide on one hobby that seems best to we not guess that they may someday need interests that meet the situation mentioned on the slip and then tell will meet the conditions listed above? Really, we need the other groups why that particular one was chosen. them now! Goethe said, "He who is plenteously sup­ *Order through your local book dealer ; if you have none we will plied from within has need of littl~ from without." furnish publ ~ hers' addres'3es on request. Are we doing all we can to g1ve our young people the resources they need toward more interesting lives? Here is an idea from Union­ town, Pennsylvania, that may not only help to solve this problem ?~t also the problem of summer actiVI­ ties in general, especially for those young people who do not go to camp. The general idea is to get sugges­ tions of things a person can do on her own initiative! Two leaders, with their Courts of Honor, are planning a meeting full of possibili­ ties toward helping young people to find interests. Just before the troops disband for the summer they are going to have a "hobby meeting." The spirit of it will be "let's see what new, interesting hobbies we can tell one another about when we meet Pau l Parker Photo in the fall!" These small words of the Speyer Hospital for Animals seem to understand Girl Scout On the great occasion of this Law Number Sixl MAY, 1937 51

It might so happen that every person who does not look. Perhaps it would be nice to learn the names of already have an absorbing interest will want to choose some of these insects. It is not nearly as much fun one to follow during the summer and tell about it at to say "that bug" as it is to say "that long-horned another meeting in the fall. beetle." Why not write down things discovered about If by chance the fall meeting does not produce the them? Of course, dead insects on pins are all right full results you had hoped for, do not be too discouraged, for some people and some studies but, instead of this, but rather remember that interests do not always take why not try to keep their "pictures." These may be root immediately but may do so in the years to come. little sketches, water colors, or photographs. If pos­ Plant the ideas and somed ay, when the right oppor­ sible, have pictures of them "doing something"-per­ tunity comes along, the young perso n has something haps eating a leaf or cleaning their legs (they do you on which to draw. know!). ' In the adult discussions mentioned here, the groups Of course, if we feel we must collect dead insects, decided · that in nature activities lie more of the satis­ then let us do it right. We should try not to kill need­ factory answers than in any other field of interest. This lessly the rare insects. Collecting, killing, and mount­ being so, Miss Gaudette will now take the microphone! ing directions may be found in the Field Book of In­ sects by Dr. Frank E. Lutz (Putnam, $3.50) and in "Dear Public" : The above paragraph makes us feel How to Know the Insects by Dr. H. E. Jacques (Bio­ like doing a handspring! Speaking of microphones logical Survey Publication No. 1, Iowa Academy of makes us feel that we should preface this little bit on Science, $1). Dr. Lutz says in his book that "insects nature with a good slogan and a few words of advertise­ can be studied alive with great pleasure and profit" and ment for the "product" we are about to sell. Because that is the way we feel about it! There are many good many people are "done" or "undone" by nature, let books that will have stories of the insects you are in­ our slogan be "do nature before she does yo u." And terested in or that will help you find out more about our few words of advertising matter will be these­ them. "nature is not limited to any time, place, or season, We should like to mention here some of the other or to any pocketbook. Learn a bit about it today and possibilities for interest in the great field of nature. notice the superior fl avor it gives to life. Does not keep If a person's leaning is toward plants, let us remember yo u awake at night. Gives you that 'springy' feeling in that there are other "plants" besides trees, wild flowers, the morning. Is good to the last pebble!" and garden flowers. These three are very interesting, Now let us suppose that some young person is going we know, but someone might like to know more about to be interested to do something in nature this summer seaweeds, mushrooms, mosses, ferns, plants used as fruits and says to you, "I would like to learn about insects." or vegetables or spices, and there are always the good old We know you will want to help her get started, and bread molds! Very cheap to raise, these latter. Some here are a few humble suggestions. (We are using in­ of us can raise them without even trying ! sects to illustrate simply because we have to start some­ Perhaps someone has an interest in knowing more where and because we like them!) about animals. J u:st think of the possibilities here. If you will re-read (or are we pre-supposing too Not only might we discover a great deal about wild much!) the article in the March, 193 7, LEADER en­ animals but we might find an interest in animals of titled " Discoveries and More Discoveries," you will the zoo or of the farm. How about different breeds have plenty of suggestions to pass on to yo ur young of dogs? Birds are always fun and so are some of the people for things to observe in many branches of nature, other members of the animal kingdom we often neglect. but look particularly at the section on insects. After What are they? We are pleased to say that worms we have made the suggestions found there, let us go crabs, spiders, insects, the shelled animals, fishes, sala~ on and tell our young perso n, who is a budding ento­ manders, toads and frogs, snakes, lizards, and turtles mologist, to see how many different looking insects are are grand creatures to become acquainted with. W e living and working near-by. L et us suggest that she recommend them highly! take one or two, keep them in captivity for a short There are those who would rather discover things time, and watch their ways. Perhaps raise some young about rocks and minerals than anything else. Fossils ones. (Understanding families are an asset here !) are fun to do and there is, of course, always something Insects can be raised in terrariums, aquariums (if they interesting in the geological history of one's own ·com­ are water insects), or old mayonnaise or jam jars with munity. Perhaps your house is now located on what a piece of cheese cloth over the top. Also we can make was once the bottom of an ancient sea! Perhaps there insect cages. Here are directions for one kind. Ma­ are fossils in your back yard ! terials needed: two oblong can covers, a piece of copper . Don't forget the stars when thinking of things to do screen wire, a small bag of plaster of Paris, a little 111 the summer. ·Some people like best to study them branching twig, and a small pi ece of copper wire. Take in the winter, but there are others who like the sum­ the screen wire, bend it to fit insid e one can cover leav­ mer because it is more comfortable to observe the heav­ ing about one half inch of screen wire to overlap. Fas­ enly bodies while reclining comfortably on the greens­ ten this seam with copper wire. Put this screen into one ward than standing in the cold w ith the body in a of the can covers, pour a bit of plaster of P aris in figureS. the bottom, and before it hardens put in the twig. This As Miss Twohy says, wouldn't it be fun to have twig gives the insect or insects something to climb upon. everyone do some little investigating in nature during the Use the other can cover as the "roof." You can now summer, whether she goes to camp or not, and compare put dirt or moss in the bottom to give the. cage a " homey" notes in the fall? Try it, will you? 52 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER

Publi shed monthly in the revised Brownie leaders' handbook. .\ October to June by The stories will be most useful if they are outlined in two GIRL SCOUTS , INC. reports : the first covering the story of individual Brownies in your community now grown up; and the second covering ·570 Lex in gton A ve nu e, N.ew York, N. Y. the oldest pack in your community, when organized, the origi­ nal leader, and pack activities-then and now. National President - MRS. HERBERT HOOVER Your pleasure in reading the reports from other communities National Director MRS. PAUL RITTENHOUSE will be your reward! Edited by the Program Division ATTENTION LOCAL COUNCIL MEMBERS Chairman - MRS. ARTHUR W . PAGE Based upon the replies received from a recent query sent Executive Secretary - MRS. LEWIS A. DEBLOIS to all commissioners, the decision has been made to send a Editor FJERIL HEss special semi-annual bulletin, instead of the LEADER, to all local Editorial Assistant · VIRGINIA OWEN GREENE council members. The commissioner will receive the LEADER IMPORT ANT- PLEASE NOTE as heretofore, and in addition copies of the LEADER will be The subscription price is 50 cents a year for the United States, sent to each local council for distribution to the chairmen of 7 5 cents for Canada and foreign countries. (For Girl Scout standing committees. This announcement refers only to local captains, skippers, Brown Owls, local directors, field captains, council members and will take effect beginning with the Oc­ troop committee chairmen, commissioners, and local council tober, 1937, issue of the LEADER. members the subscription price is 25 cents, which is included THE BLUE BOOK in their annual membership dues.) Orders for additional copies A new Blue Book of Girl Scout Policies and Procedures of the current issue and . of previous issues (in so far as copies is being prepared, which will incorporate material now con­ arc available) will ,be filled upon receipt of 5 cents for each tained in the 1936 Supplement, and other new policies and copy; address the LEADER direct. _ procedures. It is hoped that the new edition will be ready for N. B. In the case of new memberships, as with late renew­ ·distribution some time in the early summer. The old Blue als, the initial delivery of the LEADER is subject to several Book is now out of print, and requests for the Blue Book weeks' delay. Entered as second-class matter, September 11, should be deferred until the new edition is off the press. 1935, at the post• office at New York, ,New York, under the DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION AND APOLOGY Act of March 3, 1879. We very much regret an error which occurred in the review of Peter and Penny Plant a Garden on page 21 of the Feb­ VOL. XIV MAY, 1937 NO.5 ruary LEADER. The authors are Gertrude and Frances DuBois. Please make this change in your file copies. In the April issue we published a beautiful photograph NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS of hepatica, which we said-and which we thought-was On April 26, National H eadquarters, will be located at taken by a Girl Scout. One of our friends has written us 14 West 49th Street, New York, where we will have more that this photograph was taken by Mr. E. Q. Williams of elbow room. Syracuse, New York, who won first prize with it in a news­ paper contest. We are very glad to make this correction and GOING ABROAD THIS SUMMER? place the credit where it belongs. "Quo Vadis" of Trainers. A "Quo Vadis" for Girl Scout WHEN YOU GO CAMPING and Girl Guide trainers, at which training methods and prob­ If you are planning to take your Girl Scouts camping this lems in the different countries will be discussed and experi­ summer and have not read Minimum Standards for Girl Scout ences and suggestions exchanged, will be held from June Camps, will you please send to National Headquarters for a 27 to July 5 at Our Chalet, Adelboden, Switzerland. Four copy of this pamphlet. One copy will be sent to you free of experienced trainers will be a'ccepted from each country. charge. Round Table of Brown Owls. Four experienced Brownie WHY GIRL SCOUTS PAY ANNUAL DUES leaders will be accepted from each country at the informal To help leaders explain to Girl Scouts and their parents the round table for Brown Owls to be held at Our Chalet from annual membership dues, National Headquarters has prepared July 25 to August 2. a pamphlet called Tht! Biggest 50 Cents in the World, free Charges and Applications. F_or each meeting there is a regis­ upon request to the Field Division, Girl Scouts, Inc. tration fee of £1 (about $5), and accommodations range from FIRST AID TO THE YOUNG HOSTESS about 65 cents to $1.25 a day. Free Training at Fox/ease. The Girl Guide Association "Just what is it," asks Beatrice Pierce in "Does the Crowd of Great Britain is offering free training at Foxlease this Like to Come to Your House?" in the May American Girl, summer to two American Girl Scout leaders. "that makes one girl a successful hostess and another girl a If you are going to Europe this summer and are interested mediocre one?" Mrs. Pierce discusses the whole question in any of the above items, -please communicate at once with of parties, both planned and impromptu, and what is back Mrs. Frederick Edey, Chairmain of the International Com­ of their success or failure. She strikes her keynote when mittee, Girl Scouts, Inc., stating your qualifications. she says: "How the hostess feels about entertaining makes all the difference in the world.... If she is unaffected, NATIONAL TRAINING COURSES cordial, and light-hearted, her guests catch her mood· and respond to it .... but if she takes her entertaining ·too Two national training schools, Camp Edith Macy and seriously, her parties are apt to be heavy and stiff ..." Camp Juliette Low, open in May. Both are offering Training This is an article in the second series of "It's More Fun When Methods-professional workers take notice! June -_will see You Know the Rules," in which Mrs. Pierce discusses for Camp Counselors C,o urses offered in nearly every region; older girls various phases of entertaining. consult your national training schools folder to ·find the most convenient one. The usual courses for leaders-General, CONTENTS Troop Progress, Special Activities_-,-in schools scattered from Preserving Our Musical Heritage .. . . MARION F. GALVIN 49 Pine Tree in the East to San Antonio and. Glacier Park in "If She Ever Gets Time-" . .. the West afford opportunity to learn more abou-t playing the MARGUERITE TWOHY and MARIE GAUDETIE 50 game of Girl Scouting with your girls. Items of Immediate Interest ...... 52, 53 Board of Directors Takes Action on Program Study BROWNIE HISTORY Recommendations ...... 53 During our Silve r Jubilee year, we should like to gather Are Your Dues Due ? ...... ETHEL RusK 54 actual stories of the development of Brownie-ing. Such Rouser ...... 55 stories, if we can get them, will be used as the_ basis of an Organizing Older Girl Groups ...... GERTRUDE J . BoGART 56 article in a fall issue of the LEADER. They will be available Pre-Camp Craft Preparations ...... CHESTER G. MARSH 57 for perusal at the national convention, and will provide the "Child and Universe" ...... Lou WILLIAMS 59 most authentic basis for a chapter on the history of Brownies News and Notes of the National Equipment Service ...... 60 MAY, 1937 53

FLY REMOVAL BY ELEPHANTS more adequate, both with reference to the age group for . Last month, Elizabeth H. Price told of watching elephants which they are intended and to the conditions under m the zoo to see how they removed flies without mud to which they will operate; and that an effort be made to cover themselves. These are the ways noticed by Mrs. Price: Uses tail as a fly-swatter; uses trunk as a fly-swatter · uses integrate the activities along lines being followed at the ears to s~oo off flies; uses a toot to shoo flies from other' legs; present time in the Program Division in fields like arts throws dtrt, sand, and straw over head and back with trunk; and crafts, music, and dramatics. rubs against fence or building; moves restlessly about. These The Board also approved preparation of material on two were added by the keeper at the zoo: In summer an ele­ phant submerges himself in his cement pool of water· he the Intermediate Girl Scout Program in line with the squirts water over himself with his trunk. ' above recommendations and voted that this material be And "':hich of the even-toed, hoofed and horned mammals, presented early in 1938 in an informal style similar to Mrs. Pnce asked, has four completely functional toes on the Brownie Packet (a collection of mimeographed ma­ each foot? Answer: The reindeer or caribou walks squarely on four stout, hoofed toes on each foot. terials for temporary use by Brownie leaders pending the preparation of a new Brownie handbook), it being under­ stood that the presentation of this material will coincide with training course material which is being prepared Board of Directors Takes Action on by the Personnel Division. Program Study Recommendations This means that we will have until early in 1938 to prepare materials; there will be one year at least in OU will all recall that when the report of the which to study and put into actual practice the recom­ Y Girl Scout Program Study was accepted at the last mendations-to modify them to suit the needs of our girls convention the Board of Directors referred the different and leaders. This also gives time for the Personnel Di­ recommendations of the report to the various division vision to incorporate the new material into its training committees for consideration and ·experimentation in courses. It allows for a gradual transition from the order that they might be acted upon at the spring meeting present system to the modified program and it is ex­ of the Board. The Program Committee spent the en­ pected that communities where Golden Eaglet candidates suing months in studying the recommendations that re­ are being considered will have completed their arrange­ ferred to the program and worked out general plans -for ments by December 31, 1938. We shall look forward incorporating certain of these recommendations. The to a gradual testing of material rather than any hastily r-ecommendations relative to the First Intermediate Pro­ crystallized plan. Our purpose is to do a better job. gram and the general plans for carrying them out were We are proud of what we have done. We now feel that presented to the Board of Directors of Girl Scouts, the record shown in the following figures could be im­ Inc., at its March, 1937, meeting. After careful analysis proved: At the present time 71 per· cent of our active of each item the Board voted to accept the following: members are Tenderfoot Girl Scouts, 25 per cent are 1. That renewed efforts be made to get the patrol Second Class, 4 per cent are First Class, and about one­ system to work on the assumption that, while it has not half of 1 per cent have become Golden Eaglets. The measured up to expectations, there is nothing in the re­ majority of our girls remain in Girl Scouting a little cords to indicate that it can not function more effectively less than two years. Let us give this new plan a fair trial than it does at the present time. and look forward to improving these averages. 2. That the Tenderfoot test be revised. Subsequent issues of the LEADER will carry a series 3. That the inflexibility of the program be offset by of articles giving more detailed information on the vari­ altering the rank requirements of Second and First Class ous aspects of these changes. The first of these articles so as to have required fields within which the activities will deal with the Golden · Eaglet. may be optional. 4. That all girls who have passed the Tenderf-oot test MONTHLY ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP REPORT be permitted to work for proficiency badges. As of February 28, 1937

5. That since the Golden Eaglet award is based 288,189 on a specified number of definite requirements with Girl Scouts . no . choices and no alternates, and since this is in con­ Brownies. 32,377 tradiction to the more flexible arrangement advocated Captains . .12,763 under items 2 and 3, the Golden Eaglet be dropped, al­ Ueutenants . . 12,455 lowing sufficient time for candidates now being considered Brown Owls . . . 1,537 to meet the requirements for the award. The revised 925 First Class rank will be the terminal point for the In­ Tawny Owls ... termediate Program, and the Older Girl Program will 617 offer incentive to the girl to continue her Girl Scouting. Local council members. . 11,003 For the time the Golden Eaglet remains in force, the Troop committee members. . 28,464 same requirements and high standards will be maintained. .Pack committee members. . · 1,865

6. That the end sought by the use of the Laws and Troop and pack committee members (troop or ~ck . not yet Promise be achieved by the implicit incorporation of the .registered) ...... _. __ ..__ 95 ideals in the projects undertaken by the troop, rather than Local coun.cil standing cODunittee members not registei-ed aS 'local by too frequent repetition of the Laws and Promise. council members...... -·- -.. · 85~ 7. That the activities undertaken in the rank and Associate Girl Scouts. 3,452 badge ·system be · revised with a view to making them TOTAL ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP ...... · ~.596 54 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER Are Your Dues Due? By ETHEL RUSK

N the midst of the gaiety and fe stivity that surround The values of a troop budget are manifold. F irst I the celebration of our twenty-fifth birthday, a "work­ among them is the effect of a businesslike plan of opera­ ing-day brier" occasionally gives us a prick and reminds tion on the mo rale of the troop. Planning ahead finan­ us to take stock of both our present and future obliga­ cially makes it necessary to plan ahead in other ways tions and responsibilities. We heard Kathleen Norris and this makes for sustained program interest. Each tell us during our birthday dinner broadcast on March girl in the troop will know her responsibilities ahead 12 that we must do our "best to preserve this Girl of time and plan for them. The educational value of Scout organization in all its fineness and hand it on to knowing how to budget and how to keep within the the girls who follow." We might, now that we are budget will serve all Girl Scouts well in the future, twenty-five, take a look at our Girl Scout responsibilities whether they are called upon to bud get their own sal­ and ask ourselves whether or not we are each doing our aries or a family income. part as supporting members of the Girl Scout movement. Workable troop budge ts are made up on the basis The national organization has long been concerned over of weekly dues ranging from three to ten cents from the fact that although our Girl Scout membership is each girl. Ite111 s covered in eve n the smallest budget now 320,566 there are thousands of girls participating can include annual memb ership dues, a party, and troop in the program throughout the country of whom we have program. materials such as a so ng or game book and no record, and who are not registered members. handicraft materials. Troops with a large r budget can As adults we bave a responsibility. to help these girls extend their troop activities accordingly. Many troops meet their obligations. Girl Scouting recognizes the supplement their weekly dues income by having one value of self-reliance, and here we have an opportunity special money-raising project during the year. Methods to help the careless girl, or the girl who is economically used successfully by troops are suggested in the pamph­ less favored, to employ ways and means of remembering, let, "Methods of Raising M oney for Girl Scouting in or of saving and earning the necessary money to become Your Community. " This may be secured from National a member of the troop just as other girls do. It is not Headquarters free on request. fair to any child to start her on the road of "getting Troops that do not wish to include annual membership something ·for nothing" when the rest of her associates dues in their general budge t have found the individual­ pay. It is almost -always possible to find someone who membership-dues-envelope system a good one. The se­ will give the girl who has no way of getting funds cret of its success lies in saving consistently over a period from home an opportunity to earn enough to meet her of time and in having the complete amount in the en­ small obligations. velope well in advance of troop registration day. En­ velopes can easily be made by the troop and you will The leader who finds membership dues a problem in probably find that your girls will enjoy designing them. her troop might do well to take a long survey and dis­ The troop birthday deserves a significant place in the cover why. She may see a picture something like this. year's events. Its celebration may be used as a medium Membership dues are due next week; to date, five girls to discuss again with the troop the responsibilities and have brought their dues. In spite of reminders each privileges of membership and to bring parents, troop week Mary forgets hers. Ruth can't bring hers until committee members, and the troop's good friends into early in the month and Elsie is sorry but the last trip direct contact with the troop. One leader recently re­ to the movies took all of her allowance. Next week the ported that her girls participated in collecting the in­ situation is only slightly better and one of 'two things formation need ed fo·r filling out the registration form may happen. The leader may advance the amount from and actually helped in making it out. She stated that her own pocket, or only part of the troop may register. her girls had lots of fun doing it and showed a surpris­ The result is a ruffled troop surface for the rest of ing amount of interest in what fin ally happened to the the year. form, how records w ere kept at local offices and National The leader who has not .found prompt payment of Headquarters, and so forth. Such an introduction might complete membership dues a problem will probably say start the statistical-minded girl in your troop on her she has done two things. When Mary first joined the proper career ! · troop the leader discussed the responsibilities of member­ Your girls themselves will probably want to choose ship with her and Mary clearly understood why she, the type of birthday party they have, whether it is a tea, as a Girl Scout, must pay annual membership dues. a picnic supper, or an evening party. Dramatic skits She knew what the money was to be used for, where and membership ceremonies that will be of interest to it went, and why it helped make the Girl Scout pro­ the girls may be obtained from N ational Headquarters. gram possible.* Mary's parents understood this also when Good planning and thoughtful budgeting can not fail Mary took her parent's consent form home and herself to be of advantage to all concerned. Your troop will interpreted it to mother and father. take pleasure in being businesslike and devising ways to get the most out of its budget; your path as a leader Secondly, the leader understood the value of operat­ will be beset by fewer thorns; your council will find its ing her troop on a budget plan. record keeping easier and more accurate; and every girl will fe el that she is me e ti:~ g her individual responsibilities • T he Biggest 50 Cents in til e Wo.-ld, fr ee on request to the Field Division, gives this information. as a member of the Girl Scout national organization. MAY, 1937 55

Our Musica I Heritage ROUSER (Continued from page 49) ~~ r · ~ rJ IT J J)r rH game" is synonymous with "singing game," "swinging game," and "ring game." Today Cir-cle four to Rou-oor, Rou-ser, Rou-ser; Cir-cle four to Rou-ser To in the rural parts of some states the play­ party is still the most popular amusement. r F r I v v r P r· , This group . of games represents those which have a jol-ly time. Rail-road, steam-boat, riv-er, and can-al , the collector found played in Texas; the music was recorded directly from the sing­ r J • J J J ing of the people who played the games. His I d description of the play-party and its place in Lost my true love-"-she's e pret-ty gel; Oh, boy, she's the early days of our country is so thrilling and so stimulating that no group of Girl ~ cIJ J J. clrJJJ II Scouts could resist the temptation ·to know J more about play-parties-and to have one! She's gone .on her last tare-well. The game at the right is from this book. The players choose partners and join hands to form a rin g . During the singing of the first stanza they march around to the; right, reverse and marc h to the A GARLAND oF GREEN MouNTAIN SoNG, left. Then each boy swings his partner once aro und by the ri ght hand. He edited by Helen Hartness Flanders goes to the next girl and swings her around by the left hand, alternating thus until he gets back to his partner. This movement is re peated exce pt that (Arthur Wallace Peach, Northfield, the boys sw1ng the girls around twice each time. At the end the players Vermont, I9-34, SO cents). cross hands and prome nade. These are ballads and folk songs actually sung in the Vermont hills and collected from (Reprinted by permission of the Texas Fo lk -Lo re Society) the singers. The editor says that "tunes and words alike show the effect of having ·been handed down orally for many generations." Certain spoken in the new land." However, some of these airs phrases seem unintelligible, but it is always the duty of appear in other collections with excellent English trans­ the collector to record and spell the words exactly as lations from the original. Girl Scouts might be inter­ they are given by the folk-singer. Some of these songs ested in using those tunes of which the original words are are versions of old English ballads-such as "The not available to write their own words. The book con­ Bailiff's Daughter of Islington." Girl Scouts might have tains a large number of lovely phot.ographs of Canadian fun finding how many versions of a well known ballad scenery. such as this can be found in this country. SoNGS AND BALLADS FROM NovA ScoTIA, collected by SPANISH FoLK SoNGS OF NEw MEXICO, collected and Helen Creighton (Dent, Toronto, $3). transcribed by Mary R. Van Stone (Ralph Fletcher Another neighbor gives us ISO songs sung by her Seymour, 4IO South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, fisher folk. Most of the songs are of Anglo-Saxon ori­ I928, $1.50). gin. The collector's exciting . experiences while look­ This varied collection of songs, all of them sung by ing for ballads will be of special interest to Girl Scouts. the Spanish-speaking people of New Mexico, include The book itself is beautifully edited and bound, and is songs of recent origin as well as songs which, "according well worth adding to the growing collection of folk to competent authority, preserve the earmarks of material of this continent. fifteenth-century versificatiov., indicating that their origi­ nals belong to the Golden Age of Spain and were prob­ ably brought to this country by the Franciscans at the SPECIAL ATTENTION, PLEASE! time of the Conquest"-so says Alice Corbin in the Just as the LEADER went to press we were handed a foreword. "Cielito Lindo" appears, · of course, but in copy of the brand new DRAMATIZED BALLADS by Janet a version different from the one in Sing Together. The Tobitt and Alice White (Dutton, $2-may be ordered design on page 49 is from this book, through the courtesy from National Equipment Service, Girl Scouts, Inc.). of the publisher. Here are twenty carefully selected and tried-out old bal­ lads, presented with musical accompaniment and direc­ NoRTHLAND SoNGS by John Murray Gibbon (Carl tions ·for pantomime-the work of two persons well Fischer, 56 Cooper Square, New York, I937, SO known in Girl Scouting for their musical and dramatic cents; unison vocal edition, IS cents). activities. The lively illustrations by Barbara Danielsen Canada has a heritage of folk song, too, and a varied --a talented Girl Scout whose sketches enhanced a recent one. The tunes in this book include a German pilgrim issue of the Girl Scout Diary-serve as both decorations song of the fifteenth century, a Gaelic melody from the and costume sketches. We can not speak too enthusi­ Scottish Highlands, a French voyageur melody, and astically about this practical jewel of a book. It should melodies from Iceland, Ireland, Norway, and the be greeted with loud cheers by every person responsible Ukraine. The collector, who is an authority on folk for camp, troop, or other kinds of programs. We shall tunes, has supplied his own words because, he says, "in try to give a detailed review in a later number of the some cases the words . . . have been forgotten ; in other LEADER. cases the original words are in languages not generally -Fj. H. 56 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER

Organizing Older Girl Groups By GERTRUDE J. BOGART "DEAR Older Girl Program Adviser: The national registration of Older Girl groups will . "It seems to me that a troop for girls of high be similar to that of Intermediate Girl Scout and school age is as necessary in its way as the Brownie pack Brownie groups, which is described in full in the Blue is for younger girls. It should have a program as dif­ Book of Girl Scout Policies and Procedures. ferent from the regular Girl Scout program as the Brownie Program is different. When the Girl Scout Forming a Group who goes to high school attends a meeting she does not, In general, girls should be encouraged to advance into as a usual thing, care to study -for proficiency badges the Older Girl Program as they enter senior high school. as the ten- to fourteen-year-old girls do. Her school There are several possible ways of organizing such work demands a large amount of study and she would groups. prefer to do something that is entirely different. A group may develop from a senior patro( in a mixed "The following seem to interest older girls more than group. regular Girl Scout work as long as they are not in the One Long Island leader who felt that her older girls form of required work which has to be passed and tested: were not getting sufficient help during regular troop all day hikes; horseback riding; swimming; canoeing; meetings reported that she invited them to meet in tennis matches; motoring; social events; skiing; sliding her home informally two evenings a month. For a time and skating parties;, treasure hunts ; photography; danc­ they continued to meet with the younger girls as well, ing; handicrafts; fashion shows ; and diseussions on man­ but it was a simple matter, when a leader was found, ners, personality, clothes, motion pictures, and boys. to break away into an entirely separate organization. "You must know that girls of this age like to manage This gradual process has been successful in many com­ things for themselves. Therefore, the girls should be munities. divided into groups, each of which would take charge Intermediate troops will grow up to become Older Girl of the program or entertainment for a meeting or a groups. month. In that way, the dramatic, musical, or other A group that has stayed together over a period of talents of the girls could be brought out. several years is likely to have many common interests "Such a troop of older girls could do much in the and loyalties upon which to build, and activities can way of service to the community." shift gradually to meet its new ideas and needs. This letter from an eighteen-year-old has epitomized One such group met only once a month, formally, with startling clearness the findings of the recent Program but each girl decided on some important community Study regarding older girls. The promotion of a new activity that specially interested her, and gave regular program for fourteen- to eighteen-year-old girls under­ service to it. taken by our national Girl Scout organization comes as . Memberships for Older Girl groups may be drawn the result of this study. The following plan will be used from a number of Intermediate troops in the community. for · the organization of groups : Two hundred Buffalo girls attended the dignified, all-day conference called by the local council one spring Who May Be a Member and helped work out a city-wide program. Enthusiasm was kindled among the girls at camp. By fall an at­ Membership is open to girls who have an interest tractive club house had been remodeled from a garage, in the program. Previous Girl Scout membership is and at a.n open house, to which all older girls were in­ not required. vited, the new program was launched. A choice of ten program activities was off-ered. These activity groups How to Become a Member met semi-monthly. They did not take in girls already During the experimental period, a girl (fourteen to well cared for in existing Older Girl groups but invited eighteen years of age) may become a member of an them to share in two or three city-wide events. Older Girl Scout group through learning and subscrib­ San Francisco, with fifteen high school groups and ing to the Girl Scout Promise and L aws; acquainting senior patrols ·in regular troops, re.ports a· similar plan herself with the history and activities of the organiza­ for uniting all older girls through four big city-wide tion; attending .group meetings over a period of four events during the season. to eight weeks; and paying the annual national member­ In some communities groups of high school girls are ship dues of fifty cents. When she has met these re­ ~rganizing who have not previously been in Girl Scout­ quirements she may be invested as a member, and wear mg. the special trefoil pin inlaid with green enamel. No restriction ·is to be set on the size of the groups. Those who are already Girl Scouts will have met Activities like those of a .glee club can be successful with these requirements but they will be interested in delving forty to fifty girls. Week-end camps, trips, hikes, home into the objectives and place of Girl Scouting in the parties of some kinds, crafts, and dramatics are much community from a more mature viewpoint. Original more satisfactory in smaller groups. investiture ceremonies presenting the wider interpreta­ Older girls in Cleveland decided that a membership tion of the Girl Scout Promise and Laws can be worked between eight and twenty was desirable because this out by the girls for presentation of their new Older size group made it possible for each girl to be active Girl Scout pins. and to know the other members .. MAY, 1937 57

The time and frequency of meetings will depend upon the other responsibilities and interests of the girls. Some Pre-Camp Craft Preparations groups choose to meet every week; others find that every other week or once a month is a better arrangement. By CHESTER G. MARSH Meeting places should provide a congenial, informal atmosphere and, as far as poss-ible, offer facilities for N the issue of School Arts for January, 1936, appeared program activities-floor space for parties, a stage for I an article by Pedro]. Lemos from which we quote the plays, and an arts and crafts studio. Often a meeting following: place can be found that the girls may furnish and deco­ "Americans have a tendency to leave their cultural rate attractively, and a great many interesting activities plans for their later years and only find that they haven't develop from such a project. the energies or faculties in their later years to best en­ The interests and activities of older girls are likely joy such subjects. to extend in many directions and to require some skilled "A greater return to artistic handwork in our coun­ guidance. If you, as the leader, are to be free to handle try is needed, and the realization that all the art crafts your main responsibility of helping the girls carry out can be equally artistic; not only painting and sculpture. their program plans, you will find it helpful to have a Rodin, the great sculptor, achieved greatness because committee of three or more persons to act in an ad­ of his broad views on all art values. He once said visory capacity. Look for persons who know the com­ 'I preach today as emphatically as I can, calling atten~ munity well enough to suggest practical ways in which tion to the benefits and advantages of taking up a variety the girls' various ' interests and their desire to give service of handicrafts. Aside from sculpture and drawing I can be expressed. Add skilled artists or other special­ have worked at all sorts of things; ornamentation, cer­ ists who can assist in troop activities as needed. Other amics, jewelry. I am an artisan.' Raphael, Michel­ members can contribute through helping to find needed angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Brangwyn, great names equipment and such facilities as meeting places, camp in art, have achieved distinction also in handicrafts. sites, and transportation. It is all one art. The Creator planned our hands for The committee members should know the national creative work." Girl Scout policies and be familiar with the publications The two great points in these pertinent paragraphs pertaining to the Older Girl Scout Program. They that Girl Scout leaders need most to consider are the should be in close touch with what the girls are doing, first sentence and the last-the need for the formula­ visit them occasionally by arrangement, assist in program tion of cultural plans, · and the realization of the fact activities as invited to do so, and insure the continuity that the Creator planned our hands for .creative use. of the group. Since the camping season is not far distant and camp plans are the order of the day, the "cultural plans" Internal Organization of Groups that need formulating most at the present moment are There are many types of organization for the girls those that have to do with the camp program. to choose from, or they may wish to make their own The cainp staff is undoubtedly planning a creative plan. Some will prefer to work through committees, program for this season-creative in every sense of the temporary or permanent; some to function through officers; word, with creative hands fashioning materials that some to continue with the patrol system; while other will carry out the plans of a creative mind. And let small groups will want to work out their plans through our girls begin now to prepare for a creative summer­ informal general discussion. One group, in describing we should not let the girls wait until they arrive in its activities, explained that it was using parts of camp to break down the great barrier of "I can't draw" three methods and the girls liked it because it made more and "I can't design." These words always seem .to me important positions! to resemble a high, barbed-wire fence that separates New Haven girls still use their patrols for some us from lovely green fields of endeavor, dotted with business, but have service groups and six hobby groups gaily colored flowers of accomplishment. That fence can which function under chairmen. be removed now, and the easiest way to do it is to start Cleveland girls felt that since all the high school right in. groups used parliamentary law, and this is common adult We might work out a game at. our next troop meet­ practice, their group should use formal procedure instead ing and see who can develop the most interesting design · of patrols. from a simple object-such as a shoe, a lantern, an One troop in Illinois, after experimenting with formal apple, a figure, or a letter. Some of the new designs organization of officers, went back to the use of patrols. on dress materials are rhythmic repetitions of matches, hammers, and . many other familiar objects. We might invite a friendly artist or the school art The Community Picture teacher in to start us on our design trail. If no pro­ New organization should grow from real need, and fessional help is available, the leaaer can follow the should take into consideration what is already being same method used in working out other programs : done in the community. Hence, local councils will want sit down with a good book and follow directions. Best­ to include representation of the older girls' interests l\1augard's book, A Method for Creative D esign, is in their standing committees and to study carefully the excellent. It may be obtained from the National Equip­ present resources and gaps in the existing set-up of their ment Service, or borrowed from the local library. local schools and recreational agencies before they outline A series of articles by Louis \iV olchonok, which ap­ their plans for their older girls. peared in the LEAPER in 1934 (January, Februar y~ 58 THE G IRL SCOUT lEADER

March, and June issues) gives clear and simple direc­ which is a moon that we can not see. The Moon now tions for procedure, as do also the several articles on begins to. go around Earth, side-stepping in a circle. paper cutting by Marya W erten, which appeared in Soon a bit of the part visible to Earth is light: the the L EADER from February to October, 1935. crescent moon. '!'hen more: the first quarter, or lialf By starting simply, taking one step at a time, using moon; then the gibbous moon, or more than half; until our own individual experiences as motifs, we are soon finally we have a full moon, which soon begins to wane, amazed and delighted with the results. After all, it is and · procee,ds through the last three stages-gibbous, ourselves, our own interests, what we do and what we last quarter (half moon), and crescent. have, that are of the greatest importance; and a design that is related to the girl's own cabin at camp, the holly bush that grows by the steps, her own canoe paddle, is far more interesting to her than a detail from a Cor­ inthian temple, a Florentine frieze, or an Old World tapestry. Then, sketching. The camp reports for 1936 show an increasing interest in drawing and sketching. Why not prepare the girls for a rich experience in this activity this summer? Action studies of troop members or pets G;bbous f) may be built up, with a little practice, from stick: fig­ (o-.ore. tl-.al"\ ures. The new method of scribble drawing described hdl\) in Frances O'Brien's book, You Can Draw, is a simple and easy first step, and John Skeaping's new book, This is the moon . Animal Drawing, makes the delineation of household pets seem as "easy as pie." In connection with nature study, a sketch book of trees, ferns, shells, or insects would make artists of the girls before they knew it. Why not let them make their own sketch books to take to camp, and some simple cases to hold nature collections? Camp plans should also include very definite effort on the part of the leader to enlist the help of the girls' parents by encouraging them to look for skills rather The different phases of the moon as they appear to us. than things as a result of the summer's experience, knowledge rather than presents, and interests rather than The stars next call for attention. Every star is a gimcracks. Very few parents would choose a souvenir sun. Immediately questions are opened. Do some, then, instead of a happy child with a newly awakened sense have planets also? Do any of these planets, if there of her own creative ability, if they understood what the are any, have moons? Here are questions to which as­ choice meant. If a troop exhibit of arts and crafts were tronomers and you and your Brownies all must give held for mothers, with a discussion of our craft objectives the same answer, "I do not know." (see the February, 1937, LEADER-"The Girl Scout Stargazing is best done in a general way at first. Craft Program"), wouldn't it help to clear this issue, Then a pair of opera glasses shows that there are many so that our girls would come to camp eager to learn more stars present that we can not see with the naked more about great arts and great crafts,· eager to take eye. Miss Stevens suggests that before beginning to learn the first steps toward big achievement instead of making the constellations we observe the difference in color and things to take home that can be finished quickly? And brightness of the stars, and the way they seem to be while we are making these plans for better understand­ thicker in some parts of the sky than in others. Con­ ing of what a creative program means, we might also crete illustrations may be given to explain their dis­ drop a helpful hint about the value of an individual tances from one another a.nd from the earth, although craft kit for each camper. no mind can grasp such enormous figures (see the Book of Knowledge series in your public library) . . Then, according to the time of year, we might learn one or u(hild and Universeu two simple constellations-the Dipper, or perhaps the (Continued from page 59) Pleiades, the Kite, Orion-and a few of the larger stars, such as Polaris, Sirius, Arcturus, Betelgeuse. After the planet game and observation, the moon is From other chapters in Child and Universe we may a good next step. A steady gaze through a telescope glean ideas on minerals, surface of the earth, atmosphere after a late, winter afternoon meeting shows that the and cloud, and seed, insect, and tree studies, all bound "man in the moon" is really a series of giant mountain together in a way to show our earth as part of a cosmos, ranges, craters, and valleys. Such a telescope view of and ourselves as one with it. the moon fixes it as real and as tangible as the earth. A Brownie with a strong flashli ght turned toward Earth References: represents the Sun. Between them stands the Moon, facing toward the E arth. (The Moon should be taller SEE ING STARS (National Equipment Service, 10 cents) . than E arth.) The side of the Moon facing Earth is AsTRONOMY FOR THE LAYMAN by Frank Reh (Apple­ now dark. When the moon is in this relation to the ton-Century Company, 35 West 32nd Street, N ew earth, we have "dark of the moon," or the new moon, York, $3). MAY, 1937 59 "Child and Universe" By LOU WILLIAMS

ERTHA STEVENS' book, Child and Universe planets-at least to realize that they exist, and that the B (John Day, 1931, $3.75), is an excellent guide .for earth and the other planets move around the sun. They the presen~ation of nature to children of Brownie age. may enjoy acting the drama of the planets to the tune It was wntten to show how natural science can be made of some singing game. One Brownie is the .Sun, holding the basis of young children's education in school at an electric candle or lamp in her hand, and eight other home, and in camp, and its ideas can easily be ada~ted Brownies are the planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, to the needs of the Brownie pack. The book is planned Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, who move in to lead children into a . continuity of experience of order, concentric circles about the .Sun (Uranus in the opposite rhythm, and beauty in the universe, all the way from direction to the others). When a Brownie is assigned the patterns on the lowly fungus to the design of the spiral nebulae. It is this plan which makes the book so valuable. This article is not intended to take the place of the book in the Brownie library, or even to be a review, but only to suggest applications of certain material to the Brownie Program. Earth study should begin when children first look beyond their immediate personal experiences to the world about them. Nor mal children of seven, eight, and nine ,ask, "How far is the sky?" "Where does the sun go when we don't see it any more?" "Why does the moon change its shape?" "If you dig and dig would you really come to China?" "Do stones grow?" Miss Stevens feels that only the truth as science supplies it will meet their needs and be fair to their mental attain­ ments. The fact that we are Brownie leaders and not science teachers may cause us to inquire, "Are we compe­ tent to do this?" Surely! We have now only to let in the small end of the wedge, which will broaden as time goes on into a love of nature and the out-of-doors. a planet's name it is fun if the leader tells her some­ We can learn with the Brownies as we present it to thing, very simply and briefly, about her planet, always them. bringing home the r(alization that it is a huge tangible The key is found in J. Arthur Thompson's statement, ball like the earth. Almost any star book or encyclo­ "This world is not a curiosity shop, but a cosmos"­ pedia will supply the facts to you-your job is to select an orderly, harmonious, and dignified universe. In our them and make them intelligible. The game begins, the scheme of presentation we must show it as such to the music starts. The first time around it is best to have children. Miss Stevens says, and we find it true in our each planet stop when she has completed one journey own lives, that "the most thought-gripping experience around the Sun. Though all have been walking at in nature springs not from awareness of detached in­ the same rate, Mercury fini shes her orbit long before stances, but of the total scheme." vVe must proceed Earth, who herself has stopped long before Jupiter. very slowly. The children must have time to live with Thus the difference in the length of the year on these an idea. Progress in understanding does not come from planets is brought home, as well as what determines accumulation of ideas, but from an unfolding of those a year. Next we might have all revolve until the we already have. music stops. Earth will find - and caA probably report Those studies which bring an idea of the wholeness on the fact-that each time she got to a given place and oneness of the earth make a fine foundation. We in her orbit, she did not see the same friends as she might start with a large globe of the earth, finding did when there last. Sometimes, however, when . she China, Europe, and our own city, getting the feeling has completed an orbit she will find that Jupiter . or that the earth is a sphere in space, and that we are not Saturn are still in her range of vision. She w ill also standing on top looking up into the sky, but all around probably find it a bit difficult to see planets on the the earth, like the spines on a chestnut burr, looking out other side of the Sun, because of the glare of the light. eagerly into space. Then a view of a planet easy to see even in a sky We may have a light set to one side to simulate the crowded with stars, because of its superior brightness, sun, and rotate the globe to show how night and day will mean more to her, and all through her stargazing are caused, how dawn gradually creeps across the world, days she will be able to understand the reasons for the how it is day here while it is night somewhere else. eccentricity of the planets' appearances in the sky. There Brownies will then be eager to see a sunrise or a sunset; is usually a planet, misnamed the "evening star," in watching the sun "move across the sky" will have a new the sky at dusk, and its name will be supplied either by meaning for them. the daily paper, the current copy of the Nature Maga­ Having introduced them to the sun and earth, we zine, or a good almanac. might broaden their acquaintance to include the other (Turn back to page 58) ' 60 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER MAY,- 19-37 News and Notes of the Nationa l ,Equipment Service

HE A NNIVERSARY SCARF has taken the country The handkerchiefs themselves are colored too-soft, cool Tby storm- and our desk is buried (literally!) under re­ green, sunshine yellow, and warm tan. Edges are fin­ quests to buy it. In fact, many persons want to buy one ished with a narrow hemstitching, and the material is of of each color! That's popularity in a big way. We just soft, fine cotton. These handkerchiefs are sold as a set of could not bear to think of so many disappointed Girl three-one of each color, each with a different design. Scouts-so, in our endeavor to keep every one happy, Sets can not be broken. · we have decided to sell this scarf as a regular item of 8-911 Set of three handkerchiefs...... 25 cents accessory equipment. In spreading this good news to the girls in your troop, please be sure to impress npon HE BROWNIE PIN i-nsisted upon sharing in the them that this is a sport scarf-and is not to be worn Tgeneral excitement of new and improved Brownie with the official uniforms. We hardly think it neces­ equipment. Ruefully rubbing his bumped and bruised sary to describe this popular number, but just to be sure hands, head, and feet, he requested a "bumper," adding -the design is printed in black and white on a back­ thoughtfully, "for Brownie's sake as well as my own." ground of red, blue, green, or yellow acetate; it is about So he is now surrounded by a protecting ring, and his 20 inches square; and has a hand-rolled hem. pin catch is fitted with a hood to prevent scratching. 11-679 Anniversary scarf, each ...... 50 cents During the process of rejuvenation he has reduced his size somewhat: 9-201 ...... 10 cents THE BROWNIE ADVISER has been on our trail to "give the Brow1,1ies a break." We have taken her very MUCH AS WE LOVE them, we just could not let seriously and surprised her with four ·brand new Brownie the Brownies monopolize all the "new" items this month. items! These, on top of the new Brownie leader's smock So, after much cogitation, with due consideration for the we announced in the spring Equipment Catalog, just needs and wishes of our Girl Scouts, and with the ap­ about upset her equilibrium. proaching camp season uppermost in our minds-we had 2-121 Brownie leader's smock, sizes 30-44 . . . .. $1.95 the brilliant idea of official Girl Scout pajamas. Start­ ing off with a high-quality ABC percale. in a luscious SURPRISE NUMBER ONE was the Brownie bath­ shade of palm green; following through with the best robe. We're particularly proud of the grown-up effect of workmanship and smart tailoring; and adding fine, white its smart, tailored lines, which will delight young ladies piping, white pearl buttons, and the Giil Scout trefoil of Brownie age. The flattering shawl collar, three large for finishing touches, they turned out-and we say it patch pockets, and a tie sash of self-material add a youth­ unblushingly-"slmply slick." Other style details which ful touch. And the Brownie emblem embroidered in add to their glory are the full cut of the trousers (which gold on the pocket marks it as the Brownie's very own. are made with a plain front and elastic across the back), All seams are double-stitched to give lasting service, and a handkerchief pocket, becoming tailored ·collar, short the material is soft, all-wool flannel in a lovely shade of sleeves, and buttons all the way down .the coat front. deep brown. Sizes 8, 10, and 12. Sizes small, medium, and large. 8-410 ...... $2 8-406 ...... $4.95 THIS MONTH the Diary .tells abou't fabrics and weav­ EDROOM SLIPPERS just naturally followed the ing, and gives the dates of May Day, National Music bathrobe-and are equally attractive. The turned­ B Week, Mother's Day, Peace Day, and Memorial Day. back cuff of this boot model shows the thick, woolly lin­ 20-391 1937 Girl Scout Diary...... 10 cents ing, and the sturdy steerhide sole is double-sewed to the natural-color sheepskin uppers with a binding of deep brown leather. The Brownie figure stenciled in deep AS THE ANNUAL Memorial Day rush for flags ap­ brown on the toe adds a delightful, decorative touch. proaches we set our feet firmly, square our shoulders, Sizes 12, 13, 1, 2, and 3. 5-726 ...... , ... $1.25 take a deep breath, and await what comes with a brave heart.-,.Ever hopeful that our statements. and requests OUR NEXT SURPRISE was the Brownie purse. Large will be taken seriously, we reiterate the announcement in enough for numerous small knickknacks, and yet not too the Equipment Catalog that lettering of flags, identifica­ large for our Brownies, it is already fitted with change tion emblems, and tree markers requires two weeks (plus purse, nail file, comb, and mirror. The strap handle slips a reasonable time for a package to be received from New over the arm, and the strong snap clasp holds the con­ York) . We say no more! tents safely within. The pliable, dark brown leatherette has a pin seal finish, and the Brownie figure down in one LEADERS of Girl Scout troops find . new ideas in The corner is of polished metal. 11-624...... 7 5 cents American Girl, the girls' own magazine, which offers stimulative material about teen-age hobbies and en­ LAST but not least, Brownie handkerchiefs! We're quite thusiasms. New leaders who do not ' already know the carried away with the gaily-colored, embroidered designs magazine will find it worth their while to send $1.50 -an industrious Brownie washing her doll's dresses, an­ to The American Girl, National Headquarters, for a one- other watering her garden, attended by her faithful year subscription. . Scotty, and a third kneeling in the center of a fairy ring. -N.E.S.