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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
you sleep all the time. Then you two will lay the mat- 
tress cover straight, and tuck it in firmly, so that you will 
have no hard wrinkles to sleep on. The under sheet, 
smooth and straight, must be tucked in all around. You 
will make that bed as smooth as the table. Now the itpper 
sheet, which is the hardest thing to manage in bed-making, 
must be neatly tucked in at the foot. But you must allow 
eight inches at the top to be turned over the blankets and 
spread. Now the blankets, straight and smooth, and 
evenly tucked in at the foot. Then you may choose be- 
tween tucking in the sides after folding the top sheet 
down over the blankets, and afterwards covering the 
whole bed with the spread, letting the sides and ends 
hang down ; and laying the spread even with the blankets, 
tucking in the sides, and turning down the sheet over all. 
Try both ways. 
Now, shake and pat the pillows, making them very 
smooth and quite square-cornered ; then lay them or 
stand them neatly at the head of the bed, meeting exactly 
in the middle ; and your bed is fit for a queen, or a tired 
Girl Scout after a tramp ! 
With the bed neatly made, everything must be put in 
its proper place. The furniture and window sills must 
be dusted with a clean cheese-cloth duster ; and the 
bare floors must be nicely dusted with a dry floor-mop, 
or a cloth pinned over a broom. If there are rugs, use 
a carpet sweeper, if you have one, or a broom. If you 
do any broom sweeping, however, you will do it before 
you dust. 
Now a last look to see that the room is tidy, every 
chair in place and the shades even at the windows, and 
your room is ready for the day. Of course any Girl 
Scout who wants a Homemaker’s badee will do all these 
things ; — not guess or suppose how others do them and 
how long it takes. That is the honest way to learn. So 
