How Girls Can Help Their Country

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Title: How Girls Can Help Their Country
Author: Juliette Low
Agnes Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell
Release Date: May 28, 2009 [EBook #28983]
Language: English
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Program, Women Working 1800 - 1930.)
How Girls Can Help Their
Country
Adapted from
Agnes Baden-Powell
and
Sir Robert Baden-Powell's
Handbook
1917Copyright, 1917
BY
JULIETTE LOW
Contents
Part I.
PAGE
History 1
How to Begin 4
Laws 7
Self-Improvement 9
Part II.
Membership 20
Qualifications for Grades and Rank 25
Enrollment 27
Badges and Awards 29
Tests for Merit Badges 31Part III.
Games 48
Camping 57
Scoutcraft 68
Stars 83
Gardening 92
Part IV.
Sanitation 94
Health 98
Home Life 106
Part V.
First Aid 124
Part VI.
Patriotism 136
List of Books to Read 142Index 153
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PATRONESSES OF GIRL
SCOUTS.
Mrs. Philip Brown New York

" Arthur Choate "
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" Powers Farr "
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" Snowdon Marshall "
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" Henry Parish, Jr. "
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" Theodore Price "
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" Douglas Robinson "
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" Samuel Van Dusen "
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" Leonard Wood "
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D. C
" Wm. J. Boardman Washington,
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" Albert Burleson "
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" Jas. Marion Johnston "
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" Joseph R. Lamar "
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" Richard G. Lay "
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" Oscar Underwood "
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" John Van Rensselaer "
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" Edward Douglas White "
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Mas
" H. C. Greene Boston,
s.

Miss Katherine Loring "
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" Louisa Loring "
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Mrs. Ronald Lyman "
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" Henry Parkman "
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" William Lowell Putnam "
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" Lawrence Rotch "
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" William W. Vaughan "" William W. Vaughan "
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" Barrett Wendell "
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" Roger Wolcott "
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" William Ruffin Cox Richmond, Va.

" Hunter McGuire "
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N. Y
" Geo. Hyde Clark Cooperstown,
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" Herbert Barry Orange, N. J.

" Thomas Edison "
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" Philip McK. Garrison "
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" George Merck "
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" B. Palmer Axson Savannah, Ga.

" George J. Baldwin "
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Miss Elizabeth Beckwith "
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Mrs. Rockwell S. Brank "
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" W. W. Gordon "
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" Louis W. Haskell "
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Miss Hortense Orcutt "
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" Nina Pape "
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Mrs. Frederick F. Reese "
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St. Paul's School, Con N. H
" Samuel Drury
cord, .
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" Orton Brown Berlin,
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" Frederick Frelinghuyse
Newark, N. J.
n

" Wayne Parker "
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" Douglas Gorman Baltimore, Md.

Miss Manly "
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Mrs. Jas. Houstoun Joh
Birmingham, Ala.
nston

" William S. Lovell "
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" Robert C. Alston "
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" John B. Gordon Atlanta, Ga.

" Cleland Kinloch Nelson "
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" John M. Slaton "
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" Carter Harrison Chicago, Ill.
" Herbert Havemeyer "
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" Cyrus McCormick, Se
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nior "

Miss Skinner "
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" Frederica Skinner "
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Mrs. Mark Willing "
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" Charles G. Washburn Worcester,
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Miss Katherine Hutchins
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Mrs. Robert Leslie "
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" John Markoe "
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" Alfonso Munoz "
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Miss Anne Thompson "
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Mrs. Charles Dobney Cincinnati, Ohio

" James Perkins "
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Miss Josephine Simrall "
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Mrs. Robert Taft, Junior "
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