10 
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
the he st use. The most valuable thing we have in this 
life is time, and girls are apt to be stupid about getting 
the most out of it. A Girl Scout may be known by the 
fact that she is either working, playing or resting. All 
are necessary and one is just as important as the other. 
Health is probably a woman’s greatest capital, and a 
Girl Scout looks after it and saves it, and doesn’t waste 
it in poor diet and lack of exercise and fresh air, so that 
she goes bankrupt before she is thirty. 
Money is a very useful thing to have, and the Girl 
Scout decides how much she can afford to save and 
does it, so as to have it in an emergency. A girl who 
saves more than she spends may be niggardly; a girl 
who spends more than she saves may go in debt. A Girl 
Scout saves, as she spends, on some system. 
Did you ever stop to think that no matter how much 
money a man may earn, the women of the family gen- 
erally have the spending of most of it? And if they 
have not learned to manage their own money sensibly, 
how can they expect to manage other people’s? If every 
Girl Scout in America realized that she might make all 
the difference, some day, between a bankrupt family and 
a family with a comfortable margin laid aside for a rainy 
day, she would give a great deal of attention to this Scout 
law. 
In every great war all nations have been accustomed 
to pay the costs of the war from loans; that is, money 
raised by the savings of the people. Vast sums were 
raised in our own country during the great war by such 
small units as Thrift Stamps. If the Girl Scouts could 
save such wonderful sums as we know they did in war, 
why can they not keep this up in peace? For one is as 
much to their Country’s credit as the other. 
