THE GIRL GUIDES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE GIRL GUIDES

by Captain.

HOW FRUITB PROTECT SEEDS. Many fruits form an armed guard over the seeds. A country walk will yield an Interesting collection or examples, such as would make a good feature for a Patrol corner. By prickles, spines, burrs or bitter acids the Trults seem to warn ofT animals and birds, whose help Is not wanted In the dispersal of the seeds, or not at the moment. The house chestnut gives a good example or seeds protected by prickles, and they grow stronger and sharper as the seeds from one to three In number., ripen and grow browner and more polished. Other rrults are bitter to the taste before they ripen and tills may preserve them against being eaten. The green rruit wall or the walnut is bitter with tannin, a protection lor the sweet seed kernel. Holly berries are bitter too, until mellowed by frost and are not favourites with the birds. And then we may find seeds .surrounded by covers which protect them rather rrom weather than from birds or insects, rruit walls which do not split at all and guard the seed all the time It Is ripening. The same protection Is sometimes given to seods enclosed by walls which split , ’ e sp|isltlve l " weather and open' on dry. Some like the poppy have the openings guarded by sensitive llaps, which lie flat In wet weather and curl back on hot days, when the see.l I is Allowed to escape If' the flower stalk Is shaken by the wind or by some passer-

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

To go about our work with pleasure, To greet other* with a word of encouragement, To be happy in the present, and confident in the future, This is to havo achieved some measure of success in living.

FURTHER KNOWLEDGE OF GUIDE LAWS. It Is n.v.'s-jr-y ix t-•: know a lillle m ■: I.aws that she promises t«. do her host i to keep. Many Patrols haw nut sunii-mt i copies or It to hand to every Guld> -and \ column. Guides please cut these out. paste on a card and put in your Patrol box! or course you must learn someth.ug else about the Laws ror yourselves, as well as the following: I—A Guide’s Honour Is to be Trusted. —lf a Guide says “On nly honour It Is so." that means that It Is so. Just as if she had taken a most solemn oath, similarly, if a captain says to a Guide, i Guide Is bound to carry out the order to the very best of her ability, -however dlllicult It may be. It' a Guide were to tell a He she would be breaking her honour and letting down all the rest of her fellow Guides,

2.—a Guide is Loyal to the King, to her parents, and to her Guiders, to those under her, or with whom she works, and to her friends. She must stand by them through thick and thin. A guide will not talk «ill or them herseir and will stick up Tor them if she hears other people doing h.—A Guide’s Duty is to be UseTul and ■to Help Others. And she Is to do her duty before anything else, even though she gives up her own pleasure or comfort or safety to do It. When in difficulty to know which of two things to do she must ask herself: “What is my duty?”—that is. “ which is best for other people?"— and do that one. She must be prepared at any lime to save life, anu to help injured persons. And she must try her best to do a good turn to somebody every day. •i.—A Guide is a Friend to all and a sister to every other Guide, no matter to what creed, country or class the other belongs. Thus, If a Guide meets another Guide, even though a stranger to her, she may speak to her and help -her in any way that she can, either to carry out the duty she is then doing or by giving her food, or as far as possible, anything that she may be in want of. A Guide must never be u snob. A snob is one who looks down upon another because she is poorer or who is poor and resents another because she IS rich. A Guide is like Kern. “ Little friend to ull the world." 5.—A Guide is Courteous.—That is, she is polite to all. but especially to women and children ami old people ami Invalids, cripples, etc. And she must not take any reward fur being helpful or courteous. O.—A Guide is a Friend to Amma.s.—She should save them as Ur as pustule from i-aip, and should not kill any annual uu ! necessarily. 7.—a Guide Obeys Orders of her Patro. Leader or Gumer w.thout question. Even ii she is given an order w-nlch she dislikes she must do us soldier* and sailors do—she must carry it out ail the same, became u is her duly; after she has done ■ orders at ’once. S l That l * is msciplm*- 1 s.—A Guide Smiles and gitigs utiuer a*. i dilllC'Uities.-—When she is given an order 1 not in a slow hang-dog soft of way. am sing -veil n she uisi.kes n. When she is her ii sue herself to smile—to I v ii"!' whine a; .a< !i 0i.,. r mu with a mile and singing. u cne.-i> her amt ii cheers other people, especially«in ad" tlie same I .'’ * le etpS U Ui> lI1C " 9. A Guide ir Thrifty, that Is, she make' the most or her possessions ami uoes not waste anything; she learns to spend her money wisely and saves as muen as she reasonably can so that she ma\ have money herself when out of work ami thus not make herself a burden to others, and that she may be able to help Others when they need it. 10. —A Guide Keeps Herseir Pure In Thought, Word and Deed.—She ts strong enough in her mind to be above listening to or taking part m dirty talk. She keeps herself pure, clean-minded and womanly.