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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Eat freely of coarse cereals and breads. 
Eat meat only once a day. 
Have green vegetables, salad or fruit every day. 
Drink as much milk as possible, but no coffee or tea. 
If you do not have at least one bowel movement a 
day it is a sign of constipation, which means the accumu- 
lation of waste material from food in the intestine. Ex- 
ercise. especially walking, eating coarse vegetables, 
coarse bread and coarse cereals, and fruit, and drinking 
enough water will help the bowels to move properly. 
Constipation is not only an unclean habit of the body, 
but it is dangerous, because the waste matter decays 
and poison is carried all over the body. Headaches, 
indigestion, bad breath and chronic fatigue are some of 
the results. 
5. Keep Clean — A Girl Scout should be sure that 
the air, water and food that she allows to enter her body 
are clean. Be sure that they are pure when they reach 
her, and keep them so by keeping her body, clothes and 
room clean with the help of sun, soap and water. You 
have probably heard of germs, microbes and bacteria. 
These are names for the same organisms, which are 
tiny forms of plant life unseen by the eye, and of which 
our unaided senses give us no knowledge. They exist 
everywhere and in many forms. Most of them are 
harmless to human life, and many of them are useful, 
as, for example, one that grows on the roots of peas 
and beans and helps the plants to extract nitrogen from 
the air. Some bacteria, however, are harmful, and these 
are known as disease germs, as they are active in pro- 
ducing diseases, especially those diseases which we know 
as contagious. The dangerous germs nearly all live in 
dust and dirt and in dark places. When we clean house 
and dispose of waste material and bring air and sunlight 
into dark and dirty places we are doing more than re- 
