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THE BOOKGUIDING "IPISE ?~WHITHER?" THIS BOOK IS SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION AND FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD The Guiding Book UlW 5 o a _n Q L, O I H ui O - -. o o n O w O N Ul I 3 gi c II O Q Ul t_ 5 m a 5 ^ u O Q) O ja > c i 5! H o- W . jl o 3 O o O Ul u O ! o CD > o s Ofl 5 , Ci 3L The Guiding Book Dedicated to the girlhood of many countries and to all those with a heart still young Edited by Ann Kindersley Hodder and Stonghton Limited London Made and Printed in Great Britain Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frame and London Foreword " " word IPISE on the cover of this book is to be " " translated by the question Whither ? and through all the pages that will follow, we shall try and show 1 something of the traditions and the aims, the examples of great men and women, and the ideals of service and loyalty that have found expression in the Guide spirit and law. These ideals, hitherto, have not always been very clearly defined nor rightly understood, and since it is out of such things out of the ancient chivalry and virtues, allied to the new courage, the new understanding, and, above all, the new and greater knowledge that the ideal of service for home and state in every country is to be reached, we must create a tradition of them to form the background of our daily lives. We would have more that intangible spirit possessed by nearly all young Englishmen, the spirit that inspired Julian Grenfell to write of Spring in the midst of battle, that enabled another young " " soldier poet to sing of Green Gardens in Laventie at a time when well he might have been occupied with more unlovely thoughts. A complete detachment from the horrors about them, and, at the same time, a realization of beauty in all things. An instinctive reliance on changeless events, like seed-time and harvest, in a chang ing world, which springs fundamentally from belief in the Creator, and to which is added a certain fount of humour, never failing, because it springs from the same source. It is these things, then, that poets have always sung and writers celebrated, and it is to them once more that we have looked, and not looked in vain, to help with this true explanation of Guid ing. Thanks to them, we have been able to portray these ideals, 7 8 FOREWORD of the nations which coupled with the ideals and the characteristics of all that is best in they represent, as the embodiment girlhood, the words and although, in many of the contributions, "Guiding" " " for those who and Guides do not appear, the visions are there, and with which to follow have the eyes to see, and the imaginations them, they are written clear. that has been shown For the unfailing patience and kindness to us by the contributors, and by all those who have helped in so many ways with the production of this book, we are sincerely grateful ; and our thanks are also offered to Messrs. Macmillan for permission and also an extract to reproduce certain lines of the poet Tagore, to Messrs. from The Young Enchanted by Mr. Hugh Walpole ; Masefield Heinemann for the extract from Gallipoli by Mr. John ; and to Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton for an extract from Sir James Barrie s essay on Courage. various circumstances it We very much regret that owing to from Chile, has not been possible to include contributions China, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Holland, or Poland. HELEN WHITAKER. ANN KINDERSLEY. Contents PAGE FOREWORD The Lady Helen Whit- aker and Miss Ann Kin- dersley 7 H.R.H. THE PRINCESS MARY S FACSIMILE MESSAGE 13 To THE TRUE ROMANCE Rudyard Kipling, 15 SAINTS AND WARRIORS Katharine Tynan 19 " " I Vow TO THEE, MY COUNTRY Cecil Spring Rice 22 "I Vow TO THEE, MY COUNTRY," MUSICAL COMPOSITION Sir Walford Davies, Mus. Doc. 23 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WILL . Mrs. Philip Champion de Crespigny 24 BIRDS Anne Douglas Sedgwick 2? " " TERRIBLE AS AN ARMY WITH BANNERS . The Bishop of Guildford 34 THE EXAMPLES OF GREAT MEN John Masefield . 36 . AND WOMEN ...... Clemence Dane . 38 MANY DOORS Ernest Raymond . 39 THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL Alfred Noyes 48 LOYALTY ........ Roger Mackarness 50 ST. AUGUSTINE TELLS HOW NATURE LED HIM TO GOD 52 FRIENDSHIP Peggy Webling . 54 THE BOND OF Music Dame Nellie Melba, D.B.E. 56 THE ROMANCE OF SEA ADVENTURE E. Benson, F.R.G.S. 60 ON THE WINGS OF IMAGINATION Mary I. Houston . 65 PADMAVATI ....... Bella Sidney Woolf . 70 LEFT TO KING JOHN Enid Leale . 73 "UMS THE MOTHER" Abamindradath Tagore. 77 THE GUIDING HAND Mrs. John Kindersley . 80 10 CONTENTS PAGE THE HOMEMAKERS /. Alex. Robinson . 83 A SOUTH AFRICAN DECLARATION . A. M. Hanky . 87 NATURE S JOYOUS RIOT Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Bart. ... 90 A MESSAGE IN FACSIMILE Maurice Maeterlinck . 91 PATRIOTISM ....... Emile Cammaerts . 92 CIVILISADORAS . Don Domicio da Gama As j 96 THE CIVILIZING INFLUENCE OF WOMEN . J 9% " " FRED MED ARE Gudrun Jespersen . 100 j 101 "PEACE WITH HONOUR" .....) ,, ,, " " . 102 LEV FARLIGHT ) Annie Furuhjelm "LIVE DANGEROUSLY" ..... J 103 FAIRIES IN GERMANY .... A. M. K. 104 Baroness Orczy . 108 Az EBREDES ) Ii:r THE AWAKENING ... ,. BEATRICE ..... Baron Sidney Sonnino 118 Nitobe . 122 POWER OF THE ETERNAL FEMININE . Inazo Momolu . 126 SERVICE . ..... Massaquoi . LE ROLE DES JEUNES ... M. Batty Weber . 129 j THE PART OF YOUTH ... ,,- I3 1 Barbra . MOD ) Ring 134 Z COURAGE ........ J .. 37 PALESTINE G. K. Chesterton . 142 Poccin Oleg Pantuckoff . 148 Eynymee j THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA ..... J ,, > *49 . Cecilia Milow 152 TRADITION OCH NAGRA FRAMTIDSMAL \ TRADITION AND SOME FUTURE AIMS ...),, *54 L EDUCATION MATERNELLE Adolphe Ferrlere . 156 | THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER INSTINCT . ) 158 WHERE THE FUTURE LIES Owen Wister . 161 A FRIEND TO ANIMALS Gerald H. Thayer . 163 EVERY CHILD COMES WITH THE MESSAGE THAT GOD . 166 is NOT YET DISCOURAGED WITH MAN . Rabindranath Tagore Illustrations, etc. PAGE " " As an Army with Banners (colour plate] .... Frontispiece H.R.H. The Princess Mary s Facsimile Message ...... 13 " Musical Composition, I Vow to Thee, my Country," Sir Walford Davies . 23 Wren ; Marsh-Tit ; Blue Tit 29 " She knew that her Visitant was old and spent and a Hater of Men and " miserable (colour plate) ......... 41 " " And with a great Voice they exclaimed : He made us ! (colour plate) . 53 Laura Secord (colour plate) .......... 67 Uma the Mother (colour plate) ......... 79 Nature s Joyous Riot (colour plate) 89 A Message in Facsimile from Maurice Maeterlinck ..... 91 "Don Quixote ... in his blind and rash Endeavours" (colour plate) . 93 " " Two of the straight little Children had stopped in front of her (colour plate) . 105 Power of the Eternal Feminine . .123 Power of the Eternal Feminine (continued) ....... 125 The Tragedy of a Misguided Man ......... 133 " The little barefooted Peasant Girl ..." 141 " What would be seen by an impartial Observer new-come from another " Planet ? 165 " " Every Child comes with the Message that God is not yet discouraged with Man 166 11 13 BRITISH EMPIRE SECTION To the True Romance By Rudyard Kipling A ^HY face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, 7 Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garment s hem ; Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. Through wantonness if men profess They weary of Thy parts, E en let them die at blasphemy And their arts perish with ; But we that love, but we that prove Thine excellence august, While we adore discover more Thee perfect, wise, and just. Since spoken word Man s spirit stirred Beyond his belly-need, What is is Thine of fair design In craft thought and and deed ; Each stroke aright of toil and fight, That was and that shall be, And hope too high wherefore we die, Has birth and worth in Thee. 15 BOOK i6 THE GUIDING Who holds by Thee hath Heaven in fee To gild his dross thereby, And knowledge sure that he endure A child until he die- disdain For to make plain that man s Is but new Beauty s birth For to possess in loneliness The joy of all the earth. As Thou didst teach all lovers speech And Life her mystery, So shalt Thou rule by every school Till love and longing die, were set, Who wast or yet the lights A whisper in the Void, Who shalt be sung through planets young When this is clean destroyed. Beyond the bounds our staring rounds, Across the pressing dark, The children wise of outer skies Look hitherward and mark a that drifts, A light that shifts, glare Rekindling thus and thus, borne Not all forlorn, for Thou hast us. Strange tales to them of Time hath no tide but must abide The servant of Thy will; Tide hath no time, for to Thy rhyme The ranging stars stand still- our fears Regent of spheres that lock Our hopes invisible, Oh twas certes at Thy decrees We fashioned Heaven and Hell ! TO THE TRUE ROM ANCE 17 Pure Wisdom hath no certain path That lacks thy morning-eyne, And captains bold by Thee controlled like Most to Gods design ; Thou art the Voice to kingly boys To lift them through the fight, And Comfortress of Unsuccess To give the dead good night A veil to draw twixt God His Law And Man s infirmity, A shadow kind to dumb and blind The shambles where we die ; A sum to trick th arithmetic Too base of leaguing odds, The spur of trust, the curb of lust, Thou handmaid of the Gods ! Oh Charity, all patiently Abiding wrack and scaith ! Oh Faith, that meets ten thousand cheats Yet drops no jot of faith ! Devil and brute Thou dost transmute To higher, lordlier show, Who art in sooth that utter Truth The careless angels know ! Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I may not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die.