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matter of fact, after a trial or two you really get to like such 
jobs, because with coolheadedness and knowledge of what to do 
you feel you give the much-needed help. 
The Value of Nursing— In this war hundreds and hundreds 
of women have gone to act as nurses in the hospitals for the 
wounded and have done splendid work. They will no doubt be 
thankful all their lives that while they were yet girls they learnt 
how to to nurse and how to do hospital work, so that they were 
useful when the call came for them. But there are thousands and 
thousands of others who wanted to do the work when the time 
came, but they had not like Guides Been Prepared, and they had 
never learnt how to nurse, and so they were perfectly useless and 
their services were not required in the different hospitals. So 
carry out your motto and Be Prepared and learn all you can 
about hospital and child nursing, sick nursing, and every kind, p 
while you are yet a Guide and have people ready to instruct you 
and to help you in learning. 
In countries not so settled and protected as England 
and America, where the women and girls are taught to 
count upon their men to protect them in the field, the 
Girl Scouts have sometimes had to display a courage like 
that of the early settlers. A Roumanian Scout, Ecaterina 
Teodor roiu actually fought in the war and was taken 
prisoner. She escaped, traced her way back to her com- 
pany, and brought valuable information as to the enemy’s 
movements. For these services she was decorated “as a 
reward for devotion and conspicuous bravery” with the 
Order of Merit and a special gold medal for the Scouts, 
only to be given for services during the war. At the 
same time she was promoted to the rank of Honorary 
Second Lieutenant. 
Can we wonder that she is known as the Joan of Arc 
of Roumania? 
During the Russian Revolution the Girl Scouts were 
used by the Government in many practical ways, as may 
be seen from the following letter from one of them: 
“The Scouts assisted from the beginning, from seven 
in the morning until twelve at night, carrying messages, 
sometimes containing state secrets, letters, etc., from 
