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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
all the animals and plants for miles around, they could 
guide themselves by the sun and stars, and finally, they 
were husky and hard as nails and always in the best of 
health and condition. Their adventurous life, always on 
the edge of danger and new, unsuspected things, made 
them as quick as lightning and very clever at reading 
character and adapting themselves to people. 
In a way, too, they had to act as rough and ready 
police (for there were no men in brass buttons in the 
woods!) and be ready to support the right and deal out 
justice, just as our “cow-boys” of later ranch days had 
to prevent horse-stealing. 
Now, the tales of their exploits have gone all over the 
world, and healthy, active people, and especially young 
people, have always delighted in just this sort of life and 
character. So, when you add the fact that the word 
“scout” has always been used, too, to describe the men 
sent out ahead of an army to gain information in the 
quickest, cleverest way, it is no wonder that the great 
organization of Boy and Girl Scouts which is spreading 
all over the world today should have chosen the name we 
are so proud of, to describe the kind of thing they want 
to stand for. 
Our British Scout-sisters call themselves “Girl Guides,” 
and here is the thrilling reason for this title given by the 
Chief Scout and Founder of the whole big band that is 
spreading round the world today, as so many of Old 
England's great ideas have spread. 
WHY “GUIDES”? 
On the North-West Frontier of India there is a famous Corps 
of soldiers known as the Guides, and their duty is to be alwavs 
ready to turn out at any moment to repel raids by the hostile 
tribes across the Border, and to prevent them from coming down 
into the peaceful plains of India. This body of men must be 
prepared for every kind of fighting. Sometimes on foot, some- 
times on horseback, sometimes in the mountains, often with 
pioneer work, wading through rivers and making bridges, and so 
