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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
“So the Eclaireuse becomes a model of the new 
women, used to sports, possessing her First Aid 
Diploma, able to cook good simple meals, marching 
under orders, knowing how to obey, ready to accept 
her responsibilities, good-natured and lively in rain or 
sun, in public or in her home They continue 
their courses in sewing, hygiene and gymnastics and 
assist eagerly at conferences arranged for them to dis- 
cuss the duties of the Eclaireuses and what it is neces- 
sary to do to become a good Captain. 
“To make themselves useful— that is the ideal of 
the Eclaireuses. They know that in order to do this 
it is becoming more and more necessary to acquire a 
broad and complete knowledge/’ 
It is quite a feather in the cap of this great Scout 
Family of ours that we are teaching the French girl, 
who has not been accustomed to leave her home or to 
work in clubs or troops, what a jolly, wonder-working 
thing a crowd of girls, all forging ahead together, can 
be. 
In our own country we were protected from the worst 
sides of the great war, but we had a wonderful oppor- 
tunity to show how we could Be Prepared ourselves by 
seeing that our brave soldiers were prepared. 
Our War Records show an immense amount of Red 
Cross supplies, knitting, comfort kits, food grown and 
conserved in every way, money raised for Liberty Loans 
and Thrift Stamps, war orphans adopted, home replace- 
ment work undertaken and carried through; all these 
to so great an amount that the country recognized 
our existence arid services as never before in our history, 
the Government, indeed, employing sixty uniformed 
Scouts as messengers in the Surgeon General’s Depart- 
ment. 
Perhaps it is only the truth to say that the war showed 
