Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-04-18 | Page 7 | Women who can do Things

Women Who Can Do Things. Gen. Sir Robert Baden-Powell believes be-lieves in the women who can do things, and the Tjther day he held up Lady Baden-Powell as an exponent of this much-desired art. The .chief and founder of the Boy Scout movement was describing a tour that his wife and he recently made in Algeria. "I saw Lady Baden-Powell," he said, "not so long ago in what is the feminine for shirt sleeves? scrubbing out a saucepan. We were living the simple life in the desert. We had only one pan, and that was a saucepan. It had to do for frying our fish in the morning and also for boiling our coffee cof-fee in. After the lady had done the fried fish she had to get some grass roots and sand and scrub the pot out so that we could make our coffee in jt. The lady was quite able to do it, and she did it well. She also did the washing. wash-ing. But," General Baden-Powell added, add-ed, "1 must stand up for the Scouts i and the mere man she had to fall back upon me to do the ironing."