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Show Girl Scout Will Make Best Type of Citizen 'in Future City and State Ey REAR ADMIRAL W. S. SIMS, U. S. Navy. A girl who has had girl scout training will make the best type of citizen in the future city and state. She has been brought up with the idea of being useful in an intelligent way to her village, her town, her city, her state, her country. Scouting emphasizes the domestic activities and interests of a girl's life. Manv a girl has scorned her mother's kitchen until, as a scout, she has learned that it is not drudgery but "fun alive-' to learn to cook a simple meal, and set the table correctly. But, the old-fashioned mothers will say, "Good mothers have for centuries cen-turies been trving to teach these homely accomplishments and instill these principles into their daughters." This is true, and it is to help the mothers moth-ers in their important and unending task that the scout movement Las uulizcd important and characterise principles of modern education. |