SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.
Girl Guides' Grotto
"USE YOUR EYES"
How many people can honestly say that they really see the things which lie about them? As Guldos you are trained to use your eyes, but, even so you miss a great deal
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ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
At one time it was hoped that the World Chief Scout would send out a cast of his footprint, so that it might be permanently recorded in a block of concrete at Eprapah. Baden-Powell, however, has decided otherwise, and his reasons were set forth in a characteristic paragraph in his "Outlook," pablished in the November "Scouter."
"Talking of tracking, when I was
in Hungary the novel Idea occurred to the scout authorities there of taking an impress of my foot In concrete, as proving that I had bean there. In consequence of this, I have been invited by an Aus- tralian scout training centre to send them my footprint; but for one thing, my foot la not specially a thing of beauty to set up as an ornament, nor did I quite like to send it to a spot which my foot has not, as yet, trodden. Otherwise, I should have been proud to have my
of what passus before you. When B.P. and the Footprint you go for a walk, do you notice what birds you see or what flowers ure out? You will possibly any: "Oh, there was only some lantana, and a few parrots were flying round." There is a saying that if you like anything you will get to know all about it. Conversely, the nore you learn about anything the more your liking for that subject will grow. To learn about birds, the only things you need-at any rate, for a time--are your eyes and] patience. You must learn to wait while the bird is practically beside you, seemingly teasing you.
You will never
see him if you go blundering into the bushes after him, but if you really "freeze," he will come out into the open."
Later on you will need to buy or borrow R
Bird copy of
Book. It in preferable to own one - elther yourself or the patrol because then you can mark against the description of the bird the date and place where you saw it. All your patience in watch-vialt recorded as Indubitably as a ing and waiting will be rewarded when you know that you have seen the shy creature, and can put down a permanent record of that fact.
There will be some birds, of course which you will be able to mark as "seen" straight away..... birds such as the magple, crow, sparrow, willy-wagtail, and swal low. But even with these familiar bird-folk there may be things which you have not noticed. How many of you have seen the blue on a laughing jack's wings, the white eyes of a raven, ar crow, as he is more commonly termed-and know the different colourings of a white and a black backed magple?
The study of birds is most fas- cinating, and repays us a thousand- fold. It gives to all our walks and holidays a new Interest, the pleasure that knowledge gives us, and a new appreciation of beauty. Well may it be said of many of those who walk unseeingly through our fair land with their eyes blind to ita beauties, "Oh, Lord, open thou their eyes that they may see!"
guest of his So when next I shall take with
criminal's thumb-print shows him to have been the Majesty-in gaol. go to Australia I me the most characterful pair of shoes that I can find."
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
Have you a chum in an- other country? How would you like to correspond with a Brother Scout or a Slater Cuide abroad?
I want to help you to know- friends who are thousands of miles away or may be, within a stone's throw of your own town.
If any Scouts or Guides would like to have a pen friend, please communicate with me "Old Scout" c/o "The China Mail"-and I shall be glad to help you.
The Old Scout'sTM"
Soak a sheet of white Secret paper in water. then Writing lay it down flat on any smooth surface, such "as a piece of glass, a slate or a hard, smooth piece of wood. Then on top of the wet sheet lay a dry sheet of paper, and with the hard point of the pencil write on the dry sheet, pressing hard on the pencil point, ao as to indent the lettering into the wet sheet beneath.
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you have taken the cartridges out. removed the stock from the bar rel, and run 4 cleaning rod through, treat the gun just as you would if you had filled it with cartridges, cocked it, and had your finger on the trigger." Never, never, never “just for fun" point | a gun at a friend. It is always then that "unleaded" guns turn out to be loaded. Any boy or man who loses such a thing is
IN HIS YOUTH
Scouting in Charterhouse Copse
TREE FELLING & HIDING TRACKS
[By Lord Robert Baden-Powell]. Writing in the "T.P.'s Weekly," the Chief Scout said:-
It is the privilege of old men to look back on the past, but why should they talk about it?-except to each other. I had a talk about the past recently with my old friend Mr. T. P. O'Connor, and he asked me to write a few reminiscences for his paper.
Well, I am doing it.
But it is his fault.
Anyhow, it gives me a chance of recalling to your mind what sort of folk were my mother and father. My father was better known to the world, but alas! not to me, for he died when I was three years old. I .shall say more about my mother, for It is mainly due to her Inspiration and encouragement that I happened on the Scout idea, which is my apo logy for existence.
I was born in a sedate street on the north side of Hyde Park. In 1857, long before cars and motor- buses houted and chattered through London, you can imagine how sedate and serene it was." Even to- day that quarter retains a trace of Its blissful Victorian primness. But I'don't really remember much about Stanhope Street, for after my father's death we moved to Hyde Park Gate. South. And that is Home,, as i picture it in my mind.
Ten in the Family
We were altogether a family of ten children, and I was the sixth son. Do you think that having five elder brothers (and one elder sister)
nakes for humility or checkiness? 1 leave that question to be answered by those who have met me later in life. Anyhow, we had tremendous fun. had had all (well, nearly all) the nonsense-knocked out of me.
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scalded pot, and that sort of thing, and partly to the fact that I had not realized that some sort of meaty in- gredient was desirable and more water than meal was usual in com- pounding a soup.
She Was a Miracle
So Warington delivered this ver- diet: "Frank will sit by and see that you eat the whole of that muck ‚yourself.", Stout fellow! In such a school and under such a master I soon learnt not only to cook, but to haul and reef and steer, whatever the emergency."
And really that la all I have to say about my otherwise uneventful boy-
hood-otherwise. I mean, than in tho imaginary.world of adventure, which is the birthright of every | boy-of- every child. ·
But this Is where my mother I will give you an example. My comes in. I cannot write directly eldest brother Warington was in the about her even now, except to plc- Navy, and was, of course, a tremen- ture how she looked; with her beau- He taught us seaman-tiful strong face and a half smile on dous fellow. ship and no end of other things.it, and with her tight-waisted silk Well, we four brothers manned a 5- dress spreading out into a graceful ton cutter, and had the time of our crinoline. But I can tell you that lives eruising round the coast of she gave the colour and fire to our England and Scotland in, her ★ Imagluary world. And if there It was my first voyage, and being came to be about our adventures a the youngest I was unanimously touch of the real romance which we elected cabin boy and cook and Scouts strive to express in our move- more especially-washer up. My mont-the romance of service---It first pea-soup was a bit of a frost was altogether owing to my mother, owing partly to a sinoking fire and I She was the daughter of Admiral
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Dr. Forest B. Staley, scoutmaster of the 08th St. Louis Boy' Senuts, returned from the Scout Jamboree in Britain with Reginald Bonham, a British Boy Scout, whom he will educate in Britain as a - surgeon..
you are close to the nearest object pick out a fresh one in the same line, and proceed as before.
Head And Feel of Rovering
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u third Item (even a pebble will do) They do not know that the line with the other two, and about nim of the movement la most 100 yards in front of you. Then. noble one. It is to assist parents keeping, the three objects always in and schol Leachers and the clergytine, walk straight ahead, ond when by supplying a desirable environ- ment and healthy activities out- side the school, The first thing is to attract the girls by happy comradeship. next uniforms.
Rovering has its feet games, and competitions, which,
upon the rock and will appeal to theon Then
not its head in the through these to develop in then
clouds.". For to these four points-skill in handi
reach cloud heights crafts or other work, physical while maintaining a firm founda- health and health knowledge.tion entails perseverance, fitness, sense of duty, and service for and idealiam. others. The word "training" may The Rover Leaders', conference, lead girls to think that. Guiding in England, about five months ago. When the writing is completed, not fit for anything but a lunatic Is a school. The movement does has made a clean sweep of certain the top sheet is no longer requir¦ üsylum."
not in any way want to trespassportions of the existing rover or ed, so it can be destroyed. When
If you go out on a hunting ex- on the school teacher's, ground,ganisation that have become merely the wet sheet dries, the charac-pedition with A friend never nor to adopt school curricula or encumbrances. Certain conditions lers indented thereon will have separate in Acrub country, and examination systems. Quite the of membership have been retained, disappeared, and the most care-
don't fire aimlessly at anything contrary. The object in the Guide but the first and second class ful examination of It will not re- you see. It may look like a kan movement is to supply healthy play badges and the Rover King's Scout veal the slightest sign of writing-garoo, It may look like a wallaby and recreation; but they when badge, have been abolished. In Yet the recipient has merely to but make sure. It may be organised need not be, waste of place of the first class badge, pro- soak the sheet again in water, and human being, and then no extime In these days we cannot grammes of work, keeping in view
he secret message will reappear.planation will ever stop your con
afford, nor is it fair on them, to the rover motto "service" had been let children waste time and then drawn up, the idea being that to launch them "half-baked into central skeleton programmes should the sea of life troubles. The be provided to be adapted accord Guide training offers them ideals ing to local conditions, and activities which supplement. without tiring them, the teaching
A probationary of the school. Results and ex
period of three Perience show that the scheme is
montha has been successful in attracting girls of
adopted, and in every walk in life in most parts that time the following work must of the world. It can be applied be carried out to the satisfaction of equally well in town or country, the rover leader-Practical scout and it helps rather than interferes croft: Must have taken partsful Where properly handled It gives week's camp, under Instruction, ex with every form of religion. least three week-end hikes of 020 remarkable and satisfactory re- sults in the directiona looked for.
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If you have no com- Making a pass you can make Compass one. Take an or- dinary steel sewing
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science troubling you.
Don't firu "Don'ts To high-power rifle Be Observed" in a direction where you know
needle and magnetise it. You do this by simply rubbing on an or-people or domestic animals may dinary magnet. When the needle be. It may seem safe enough if is sufficiently magnetised to plek they are half a mile away, but up at the touch another acedle of bullets have a nasty knack of do- its own weight, pass it through ing the unexpected. a very small piece of cork, just large enough to support the needle when floating in water.
This floating needle always turns round so that ene end of the needle points to the north. If the eya is more heavily magnetised than the point, that end will turn north, but you can always check
Don't climb through a fence with the gun at full cock; there are very big chances that you will never shoot again. Uncock the gun, and put it through the wire or rails first, muzzle from you. and then follow it.
Don't let the muzzle become clogged with earth. It is a good
tremely dangerous explosion.
It in the first instance by a bor-way to star a sensational but ex-
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cept in the case of a first class scout; elementary study, of social needa, 'cívica, and hygiene, also first
WH Smyth, a learned man as well ns a fine gallor, and her brother was Professor Plazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. The scientist. may attempt to account for her in these terms. But, of course, she was a miracle.
Mainly I was educated by my mo- ther. That was my tremendous luck. For a short time I went to R dame's school in Kensingtor, where, 28 fur as I can remember, I But I do remem learned nothing. bor that at that time I wore a "pork- pie" hat with a turn-up brim, and that one wet day as I waà running to school with the brim full of rain- water a butcher's boy whipped the hat off my head, and shook it over a Tralf-drowned rat.
Perhaps I should tell you that my mother knew very many of the Ya mous men of the day, My own godfather was Robert Stephenson
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the celebrated civil engineer and sound advice, and the practice has attacked us with showers of tones bridge-builder.
been of great service to me.
and-brickbats whenever we attempt. Thackeray, too, often came to see ed to play. This was responded to Then, there were the scientifi friends of my dead father. He was us, and once he gave me a shilling, from our side in like manner, with a great man, a learned Oxford pro. which I still have. I was too grate- occasional sorties by strong bodies. fessor, a Fellow of the Royal Societyful ever to part with it; for it saved of us over the wall. With four or
There was a five other boys, too small to takeTM a thoughtful author, and a clergy-ms from disgracp.
man who saw God in all the works of dinner party, and we were abed in part in the actual fray, I was look Hla creation. You may imagine the night nursery-or any how in Ing on at the battle when we sud- that he had a large circle of friends. the night numery-from which I denly found the headmaster along. ascaped in my nightdress and join-side us anxiously watching the pro- Thackeray's Shilling Then my mother, on her own and ed the guests. The dear man gress. of the fight. He remarked to us: "I think if you boys went her family's account, knew many of laughed and caught hold of me, put the most eminent scholars, writers
the shilling in my hand and started through that door in the side wall and artists of her time for me off for bed before the High Fou might attack the cada in
flank" Instange, John Ruskin and William Fowers discovered me.
"Yes, sir," one of us replied, "but Makepeace Thackeray: Ruskin once At the Age of 11
the door is locked." count me when a small boy drawing hands, and advised my mother to let alternatively with my right and left
me keep on doing so. It was jolly
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When I was eleven I was sent to
The worthy doctor. fumbled in Tunbridge Wells, under Mr. Alfrey, bere is the key." He sent us on preparatory school, Rose Hill, at his gown and sold, "That is so, but a fine headmster. His teaching en- our way rejoicing, and dur attack abled me to win a scholarship to was a complete success. Fettes School, but at the same time
"Bathing Tower
It is surprising how aid: performance of specific ser paration for life and also a pursuit secured an entrance to Charter We moved from London to Marching much distance can i
vice; study of the ideals of the for life.
house as a gown-bay on the nom Godalming in 1872, two years after Straight be saved in a long
4-That "stickability". Is scout movement; study of inter- rowed compase, and rely upon it
walk by going ah-pretation of the scout law for branch of character that le most ination of the Duke of Marlborough. I joined the school. So that all the afterwards. In any case the line Don't carry a rifle or gan under
solutely in a straight line rovers The candidate nay rare, and most valuable, and thore Charterhouse was in London then time I was at Charterhouse things of the needle will be north and you arm with the muzzle point all the time, but many people then present himself for investiture fore most needed in the youth of how well I remember that were more or less in a tumults. But south. It can be used only in ing to your toes; don't carry it seem to wander about all over the as a rover scout, making or re-to-day can be developed picturesque old buliding in Dr. Halg-Brown kept us y
affirming the scout promise: It is through rovering.
I think my most popular hieve Greyfairs, Smithfeld, and the water that is perfectly still, or sheltered from the Influence of ear of the person on your left than they need. If a regiment of to acceptables to the rover, crew for schemes for, covering for add gave to the City street!). And
across your body pointing at the road, and cover a lot more ground so provided that the candidate must That in formulating any rules modiaeval touch the gown-boys ments at school were makle, alleg- Fed funny drawings and, Bulling the wind, and it will not work at and don't carry it at "the trail," soldiers were to do this confusion The Rover Instructor and Rambler Bose' sake let them po slastic Lock so for the sake of the funny faces, but I did best at all if used in an Iron vessel, Unless game is actually in sight would soon occur, so the men called hedges have been, for the time wide, since, if broadmindedly set nearness to home, and mother, I my lessons and gradual rawled which simply draws the compass keep the weapon shouldered, wil markers are taught to pick up being at least, retained.
up the ladder. My school nickname. out, they will apply not only to was sent to Charterhouse
was "Bathiör Towel. Also, down into the side, without any regard the muzzle safely up out of points towards which to march, cha bandha
London or Puddleton-in-the-Marsh, I'm sure it won't interest you to at Godalming I learnt a lot about for direction. If you have a com- harm's way, and only when gume with the result that they always | on
The Chief Scout, but to our far-reaching dominions know about my school work under scouting and woodcraft. pass and no water vessel, you is in sight hold it across your ortada straight line. To be The Cher's who was unable ta overseas, and to foreign countries that One, stalwart headmaster D It was only the other day--it can always put sufficient water body, but NOT fat. Make sure able to do this is useful for any oneix Points attend fals who all look to us for direction and Haig-Brown But I tell you a can't be fifty years ago that I was into the crown of your hat to serve that the muzzle is inclined to the when walking in the country, and
story about him the purpose.
front, and that there is no one in
learning to snare rabbits in the Iine with it.
copse of the new Charterhoose and out of Don't play with the trigger at with anytime, and never use a real
baie trigger or a "thumb" trig
ger.
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it also aids in training the eye to following six poin:s shou observe and register an object, quick in few in coming to definite con- ly So next time you are out by clusions yourself, or with a mate, for a lone Rovers are scouts and the walk, try this. Glanco straight out spirit and the out-of-door at some prominent object such as That service is not extraneous
example, Be Rope | › 0.—That revering is not intended Butcher Boys v. Charterhouse
to minke a man a self-satisfied pris The fight between the butcher to cook them, for secrecy, over the or a' melancholy saint, but to help byys of the neighbouring Smithfield, diminutivo fire of a bushman. I him to direct his joyous youthful Market and the boys of Charter learned, too, how to use an are, how energy Into paths which will bring house had become a standing to walk across a gally on eller him greater happiness through-liv institution, and very often these tree trunk, how to mora silently ing a life that is worth while in battles raged for days together through the bush so that one by its service to others. We need on this particular occasion the came a comrade rather than an in- mote Rovers In the Colony, so why Sathfield boys had taken Fosses terloper among the birds and the
not join up at once. You will be sion of a waste plece of ground animals that lived there. doing a service and enjoying Your-Over Hoardings, adjoining our Bovering is partly pre- Incives at the same time.
(To Be Continued)
A ahead along the road and observe mosphere are essential:
mothers do fall tree or building, some dist
off, cin the direction in which
wish to top Them Select object, doser to you and exact
to the rover s daily life, sfid Carrying out theft pro
part of
football ground, from which they
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