GUIDE NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 11

GUIDE NOTES

<g> [l'.r the ritovtKoiar, skckctakt.] All rangers and guides must be on the grounds at 1.30 p.m. Tf it is wet the rally will be held in the barracks, if showery ring Provincial Headquarters. All companies and packs have received full details of the rally, and are asked to adhere strictly to the rules. Planners and guides in uniform are admitted free. No orders or whistle signals will be given. Brown owls are expected to see that their Brownies are ready to come on. Directly after the guide songs, each [jack should be linked up and the Brown Owl should be; ready, as soon as the Big Brown Owl (laps, to run into her given spot, with her totem. Tawny will lead the pack, when the Owl signals again, into a ring round their own totem —Brown Owls must watch the big owl and all singing must be as loud as possible, the dancing must be alert and in time with the band. The band will play "We're the Brownies" once before starting, so each pack must be ready to start at the beginning of the second verse. Each pack must sing "We're the Brownies" dancing clockwise twice then Elf, Gnome. Pixie, and Sprite rhymes, and then "We're the Brownies" twice, and clockwise. The time for the Grand Howl must be taken from the Big Owl. The singing game will follow, and afterwards at a lot of flutters from the Big Ow!. the Brownies will open into the big ring, and come in shoulder to shoulder and form a small ring so that Lady Baden-Powell will be able to speak to them all. Would Brown OwJs ple.ase report to Miss Ladd as soon as they arrive as a short practice will be held beforehand. Each Brown and Tawny Owl must bring a cushion to .stuff the big totem with, also a pole with their Company Colours nailed on. All Brownies are to have bare legs. No Brownie out of uniform will be able to take part in the rally. Browniesmust trot until they return to their pack homes. After each verse of the singing game, the Owl will raise her wings, as they come down the next verse begins.

The rangers and guides are to line up in the order in which their companies arrive outside Provincial Headquarters, at 2.15 p.m., and the procession will move off at 2.30 p.m. All packs must go straight to the Cathedral and arc to be seated by 2.30 p.m. There will be a collection, which will be sent to the world bureau. The general public will be admitted to this service, and tickets are not required. The levy of Is a head is now due. Will all guiders and brown owls note that this levy should be paid by March 31.

The following are additional notes for a second-class test revision:—

Observation—Each guide describes in writing how captain would get from company headquarters to the nearest dairy, or garage, or bus, or tram route. Health Rules and Good Posture— The guider tells the company as thrilling and amusing a story as sho can devise bringing in various questions of hygiene and health. At every law which her characters break the guides run away in horror—jump up and run to the end jf the room, a point being scored by he first away. At every law of rule which is kept the guides ciap, and the first who claps scores. Points are deducted for running and clapping in the wrong places. Bed-making—-Have sheets of paper, if possible of different colours, and mark them "blankets," sheet, eiderdown, etc. Fill brown paper bags or flour-bags with sand, wood shavings, or tiny pebbles to make them heavy and call them mattresses. Use bean bags as pillows and bolsters. The guides make a bed either as a patrol relay, each guide putting on a covering, or if numbers are few, by each guide in turn making the whole bed. Have sufficient material tor . two or three of them to do so at the same time. Time them, and award points for accuracy, neatness. and speed. First aid—The patrols are numbered and the guides called in turn to bandage a cut, sprained ankle, or apply a large arm sling. The patrols then sit down and write what they would do for fainting, burns, or choking as directed by the guider, without naming the accident. Papers are then exchanged, and on the second half of the sheet the accident is named and any statements corrected or added. Guides should sign their own statements when papers are collected by the leaders and handed in to the guiders to be subsequently corrected and marked.