To the Editor of the "Norta-Caixa Daury News."
Sim,—For those who are not as Yet acquainted with it, it may be stated that it is 2 movement, on similar principles to those of the Boy Scouts, for the training of girls. It applies to girls of every class in town or country. It attracts them to take up ideals, and activities, of which the intention 1s to develop @ better knowledge than heretofore, in a practical way, of housekeeping, mother-craft, and citizenship. It is non-class, non-political and interdenominational. It is simply a system of voluntary self-education in the four directions of Character and intelligence Skill in technic] knowledge (ec) Service for others (d) Physical health and development carried out through games and practices planned for the purpose and which appeals to" the girls themselves, It is a scheme of elder and younger sisters playing games together rather than the instruction of privates by officers in a cut-and-dried—dise: plinary machine or of pupils in an academic curriculum. The Girl Guide Movement was inaugurated as % means to an end—a means of ensuring the girls having a good environment and the interest of wholesome activity outside the school walls during the hours of free time when girls very naturally develop the habit of idly frittering away their time in useless if not c harmful occupations. This environment is what the Girl Guide Movement is providing and the results of the training up to dete, in the different points which xe aimed for, have been successful beyond expectation.
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