Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 May 1931, p. 42

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Start Young to Learn Numerous Housiehold Tasks: Who is the great exception in, this age of narrow specialists, i none of' Whorn knows any job but bis dr'.bier owrn? The answer is ùndoubtedly niotheri whose' day Girl Scouts Ivill oébserve Sunday, May 10.ý * [n ryme mother is a swÀeet, rather old-fashioned lady who pursues lier. age, old. occupations of rearing chul- dren and rtninig a house untroubled by the machine age. lu reality, the modernniother bhears-, littie resem- blance to this romantic picture, for consider the jobs she may at an y nio- nment be called on to do. If the eiectric wasber goes out of order-, wbo mends it? If the doorbeil ceases to ring, wvbo starts it going againP If thé gas pipe develops a ieàak an(] the plumiber can't cone, who keeps the f anily safe fromi aspliyxiation? If sonieone severs an artery and the doctor can't be found, wbo saves: hini or bier froîi bleedinig to deathi? *If sister -buys a liargain silk that is nia(de pa rtly-of lead, who knows. .Just bow to wash and iron it so that it still looks like silk after the clean- ing is over? 1These are but à few of the jobs that. anyinoderia miother nmay be called on to perfori in a single day. H-ow does she get the training for lier varied role ? Sonie get it by- tbe nethioc.of triai and' error and pay-for it in waste enlergy, worry and cash. But. otlie,--s are Girl Scouts. At the age of tweive they begin to learn just, h ow to stop a nosebleed and to. sew on a' button. Tbey bave to be as ,Versatile as their'grandmothers ivbo did under -oneé ýr oof -wbat, dozens of factories do' today. Traffic B rings New 1ý.'Badge Requirements Honor Mothers in Program at Ravinia Park (Contributed) Motber's day is to be an impor- tant time for ail young people along the north shore and ail Girl Sc outs are looking forward to it,ý for tbey, plan. to join with, the. Camp .1 Pire Girls, Girl ý Reserves, and Boy Scouts in bonoring their niothers. Ail tbe girls are getting their uni- formns in order-and pràcticing,,narchi- in and flag c9rrying to be ready,for, Mother's day. Inasmuch as ths is 1 tbe first tinte ail the north shore, GIr! Scouts have bad an.opportunity to play together, we hope that noIue of our New Trier Scoutis or. their mothersý are absent, Tbe fViImette girls. are to iicet, in- Wilmette, at 2.:30 Sunday afternoon and ail go to kavinia iii a special North Shore Iiime train whicb 'wil pick up the Winnietka girls at Ehnx street. We hope that ail of our Girl Scout niothers wili corne to. Ravinia p ark: for w,%e are very anxious to -have every Girl Scout andliernother présenut. Camp by Troops in Experimental Camp WhnCamp Aîidree Clark, national Girl Scout experimental- camp at Mothers wého have Girl Scout *or Browniie daughters have soinething to look foruard to ont MoIM"rs Day. Hcre iý a Brownie practicing for the, occasion with, a dainty, breakfast tra.. badge' now requires a greater f amil- iaiv.ith ýthé 1country whose Ian- guage is selected for study than did, the former onie. T£he new require- inents incorporate all that the world con ference of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides agreed should be adopted as a minimium. WINNETKA TROOP 5 April 28. ,we lhad a Camp Andree was originally plan ned toý be used as a place where captains: could safely comne wi'th their. own troops. As very little of this sort of camping had been done, however, Girl Scoutauthorities deemed it wise to go slowly;Y at the start girls were put, into small. encam pments to form a troop, ànd a captaip trained by the- national camp director wag appointed. This year, however, a new plan is being offered to experienced captains. The-v are, beinn- invited to corne to the requirements for the former 1'40- 1 '*' fl uiNVOclsbulu 11 Aw peranentexmalonai badge seemed obsolete and the Kenilworth Wednesday of last week show rooms bave been opened by the carryi.ng out of others. tbought to bé when the, troop, held a court o f Gi1rl Scouts at 235 East 42nd street, in dangerous, that has been changed -awards. Dorothy Henderson received New' York City, for thé convenience Girl Scouts no longer need to demon- a scribe's badge. TIhese bionors were of local directorsi camp 'directors and ,strate harnessing and driving correct. not mentioned Iast week in a story department store buyers. Official uni- ly in. single harness to win the covet- about the court of awards because -forms, tents, water-front equipment cd award: * the girls passed their tests after.the and. camping ranges and. utensils are. A revision in the world interpreter story- had been, writtenl t.t, ht diie The new showi Panama Canal Zone; Miss Janet Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Miss Nora Zimmerman, of Maplewood, New jersey-, Miss, Seth. Smith, 'of 'England,' and Miss Maureen Kene- fick, of Sioux Falis,- South Diakota.

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