How Girls Can Help Their Country Book Overview

Juliette Low and Walter J. Hoxie, 1913 / Special Facsimile Edition, 60th Anniversary

Promise
Each girl must promise on her honor to try to do three things: 1. To do your duty to God and to your country. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To obey the Laws of the Scouts.

The Laws of the Girl Scouts

I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. XI. X. A Girl Scouts honor is to be trusted. A Girl Scout is loyal. A Girl Scouts duty is to be useful and to help others. A Girl Scout is a friend to all and a sister to every other Girl Scout no matter to what social class she might belong. A Girl Scout is courteous. A Girl Scout keeps herself pure. A Girl Scout is a friend to animals. A Girl Scout obeys orders. A Girl Scout is cheerful. A Girl Scout is thrifty.

Duties
Be womanly Be strong Be handy Frontier life Be good mothers To be observant Campaigning Tending the injured Helping others Home life Patriotism

Prociency Badges
Ambulance Artist Boatswain Child-Nurse Clerk Cook Cyclist Dairy Maid Electrician Farmer Flyer Health Horsemanship Hospital Nurse Interpreter Laundress Matron Housekeeper Musical Naturalist Needlewoman Pathnder Pioneer Rie-Shot Signaling Swimmer Telegraphist