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THE FAIRIES PATHWAY
• What Happened When The Rain
Fairies Were Lost
The Rain Fairles shouted and jumped for joy. Wasn't it just the weather for them to go out and see And hadn't the the Earth Folk? West Wind promised to blow and give them slithery slides right down all the way?
The twins at "Hillcrest" had red mackintoshes, toe-and they were aimply aching to wear them, so they'd be glad. The Rain Fairies could just see Babs running along and chuckling, and hear Toby's naughty laugh as ho splashed through all the puddles in the road- way 1
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"Hurry!" they said to one other. "Hurry! Come on-do! I'll race you!"
So they slithered and alid and laughed and romped down to earth together. Such a whistle as the West Wind gave; and such a rustle their dresses made rubbing against one another.
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It was fun being on Earth. They played for quite an hour, and for half of that time Babs and Toby played, too. Then they went in, and the Rain Fairies only saw their cheery red macka hanging up against the wall when they peeped through the dining-room window.
Then the West Wind said he must go. And he went away with a little frilling noise among the trees, and then-he was out of aight over the tops of them.
"How do we get home?" asked the Rain Fairles.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
That Silly Story
Little Mabel was watching the elephant at the zoo, and, complete. ly mystified, she turned to her mother, and queried: "Mummy, where do elephants come from? And please don't try to put me off with that silly atory about, the stork!"
Tommy-Bab's black cat-didn't
even purr.
The Rain Fairles were in a bad fix. "If only we could see the path", they almost sobbed "wo'd get home quickly!"
And then-from up above came a hearty laugh. Why! They'd all forgotten Uncle Sol! How he
smiled.
"Here's a pathway for little rain- folk that have forgotten how to get! home" he shouted, and they all looked up-and there why there was the loveliest green-and-red- and-gold crazy-coloured path.
A TALE OF TAILS
THE
r'll tell you a tale of a tall or two,
If you will listen to me. There's the tail a doggle wage,
When very pleased is he.
There's a tall a pussy cat usca;
As it moves-you first can see That she is awfully angry,
And so you let her be.
There's the tail of the Jersey cow;
At milking you'll agree It's a nuisance when she's trying
To make the flies to flee.
There's the tall of the turkey
Kobbler:
It's a pretty sight to see; But you can't say so of a native
bear,
For no sign of a tail has he.
Early Diplomacy
Dorothy had been unsuccessful In persuading her mother to pur One after another the fairies chase the Httle glass, candy-filled trooped back into Cloud Land. automobile displayed by the fruit And "Thanks" they smiled protti-vendor on the train, and mother ly at Uncle Sol.
had said, "No more candy to-day!" In the afternoon mother relented a little, and purchased a bar of milk chocolate. Dorothy at once piped up:
When the very last one had tripped into her fairy house he pulled in his pathway, to keep it for other times in the Sun Palace, just in case other fairies ever get lost.
Babs and Toby came back from the window-seat to their buttered toast, and they both said, together: "Mumsy-the rainbow's gone!"
Mummy said "yes", because there wasn't a single sign of the fairies' pathway left anywhere.
But the big plate of buttered toast was vanishing ever so quick- ly-you see the twins never guess- "Don't bother!" said some of theed the story of the rainbow, or they othera.
But soon they got tired as well, and all together the Rain Fairies aald "Ooooh! How can we get home?"
They asked each other the way, but none of them knew. Not one! The naughty little squirrel amil- ed when they asked him, and
"You said you were not going to buy me any candy to-day!"
"Perhaps I bought this for my- self," hedged mother.
"Oh, mother," eagerly cried Dorothy, "won't you buy yourself that little glass automobile, too!"
Delay is Dangerous
The master, to impress on his pupils the need of thinking before might have left it all to grow coldspeaking, told them to count 50 before saying anything important, on the plate.
and 100 if it was very important.
Away up above them, though, the Rain Fairies were having a Cele- bration Feast. You know the kind of feast they do have in fairyland. And they enjoyed it more than ever, because of the they'd just had!
narrow
escape
A few days later. he was speak- ing with his back to the fire when he noticed several lips moving rapidly, Suddenly, the whole class shouted, "Ninety-nine, a hundred, your cont's on fire, sir."
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
SCOUTS AND PRISON WORK
In a recent number of "The
Scouter," the official headquarters gazette in Britain, the Chlef Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, writes with great enthusiasm of the manner in which the ideals of scout service are being put into practice in Edinburgh. At the new prison in Edinburgh there has been estab- lished a scout troop, composed of boys who have been committed to the reformatory, which is being run with great success. The governor of the prison is himself a scouter, and allows a trained scout master, assisted by rovers patrol from the University as leaders, to come in and run the troop. "Sitting in the gymnasium and watching these cheery lads, all in scout kit, angaged in their various games and activities, and singing their songs round the camp fire (writes the Chief Scout), It was impossible to believe that they wore criminals undergoing detention. Scouting has changed them from sullen gaol birds into brightened human beings."
The
"Old Scout's"
Column,
Five silver crosses,
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CHOOSING FOOTWEAR
SOMETHING ABOUT KNOTS,
There are just one or two points The Reef Knot. Is chiefly used you should pay attention to when by sailors when shortening sail, in choosing footwear. One is that too other words, "taking in a reef." It large shoes are just as bad for the is the firmest knot known, and the feet as too small ones. You should quickest to untie. The greater the have a glovelike fitting when shoes strain on a reef knot, the easier for special occasions are your it is to undo. The reef knot is choice. When it comes to heavy always used in ambulance work, brogues for golfing or rough coun- and for tying together ropes of try wear, select an easier fitting, equal thickness. or you will rue the day.
Choosing footwear is like choos- ing frocks. The fact that you like a frock does not mean that you are going to look your best when wear ing it.
The Granny Knot-Great care must be exercised in tying a reef knot, so that you do not make a Granny. The result would be that the knot might slip or jam under any great strain.
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Buy shoes that give you comfort taking time to choose them, for if your feet are uncomfortable, then everything is wrong.
Walking in badly-fitting shoes, The Hall-Hitch, which forms a besides braising your feet, crush- most important factor in many ing your toes into unnatural posi-methods of securing ropes to poles. tions, encouraging corns and in- It is exceedingly simple to make, growing toe nails, tires your whole merely consisting of a turn taken body, fosters wrinkles, and by round the standing part of a rope throwing your body out of gear, with its own end; the latter, if brings backache and other aches necessary, being carried on for
further purposes. too numerous to mention.
CHINA
A Nice Present
MAIL.
Little Harry had two uncles- Uncle Jack and Uncle Fred. When. ever Uncle Jack paid a visit to the family he always gave little Harry a handsome present. But Uncle Fred was very mean, and whenever he visited the family, he always gave little Harry-nothing.
The other day Harry's mamma said: "Harry, the poor little boy next door hasn't got a father por any uncles. I think we ought to give him nice birthday present. What shall it ba?
"Let's give him Uncle Fred," said Harry, without hesitation."
Not Far Wrong
The Professor of English was taking a class of young students, some of whom showed distinct signs of boredom. He had been carefully explaining the difference between the subject and the object, in various sentences.
"Now," said he. "Take this sen- tence for an example: The lorry ran over John. Now what would 'John' be?"
The young student in front anig- g-red quietly "Er-the indefinite article!" anid he.
Those Germs
Daddy was in bed with the 'du, and Mummy was busy sterilising the diabes which had come from the sick-room,
"Why do you do that?" asked little four-year-old Tommy.
"Because," said Mummy, "poor Daddy has germis, and the germs get on the dishes, so I boil the dishes to kill the germs."
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Tommy: Mummy, why don't you boll Daddy?
Back to School
Little Doris had been to, school for the first time.
"Well, dear, and what did you learn?" asked her mother on her return home,
"Numin," sighed Doris. "I have to go back to-morrow."
Famous Proverbs
The teacher had been talking "Now", about famous proverbs. she said, "can any child tell me what this one means: 'Out of sight, out of mind”?”
"Yes", Johnny volunteered; "in- visible and Insane."
OUR NATURALIST PUZZLE
What is the professor trying to catch? You can zolve this by connecting the first numbered dot with the second numbered dot and so on completing the picture with numbered dot 36.
THE PATROL SYSTEM
The patrol is as much a feature of a company of lone guides as it is of an active company. Indeed, it would be very difficult, if not im- possible, run a large lone com- pany without it. When" one thinks that the majority of guides in a lone company live miles away from each other, and seldom mest, ex cept on rare occasions such 48 rallies, camps, special church parades, or picnics, it is easy to realise that they need some link to keep them together, and to give them the feeling of esprit de corpa, which is so essential in every guide company. It is for this reason that lone companies adopt the patrol
system.
Friendly rivalry is a fine im- petus, and guides who have some thing definite to work for are less likely to grow slack. It is so easy for a lone guide to become slack Perhaps she le busy on the day when she should write to her cap- tain, or perhaps it does not seem worth while to clean her trefoil when probably no one but herself will notice whether it is bright or dull. Perhaps the monthly com- petition looks difficult, and she does not feel inclined to puzzle it out, or perhaps the company.letter was disappointing, and it is such a long time to wait for the next one. All these are quite likely causes of slackness, and yet there are very few guides who will willingly let down their patrol for such reasons.
LEADERS OR ORGANISERS
The guide movement is fortun- ately richer in leaders than or- ganisers. Any company stands or falls by the quality of its leader- ship. For leadership is the vitalis- ing force of the patrol system on which guiding is built. To quote the "Gulder":"The organiser directs; the leader has but to make a suggestion, and her followers are suddenly aware that this is une thing they have been longing to do, and only wonder why they haven't thought of it before. The power by which the born leader brings out the best in those beneath her is her unbounded con- fidence in them. The leader values each guide for her own qualities knows her limitations, and her possibilities, and makes a place in which her gifts, however alight, may be of use. The leader expecte, and gets, the best every time, be- cause those beneath her know that she would stake everything on her trust in them."
Guiding for Mental Defectives Guiding has the official approval of the board of control of British Institutions for mental defectives. The commissioner recently made the following report to the head of the extension guides in Britain: "Guiding is invaluable, in that it reduces the monotony of. institu- tional life, and it has advantages
It lays down a from the point of view of discipline and conduct standard of behaviour which can be adapted so as to be understood by feeble-minded girls, and at the same time it provides a very de- finite incentive to good behaviour, are set aside for guides. Often a for mach-appreciated privileges separate villa or ward is set apart for the guides, and promotion to re- The youngest A 13-Year cipient of the gilt this special ward can only be earn- Old Hero cross was 18-years. ad by good behaviour. The guide old Scout Garlan, training in practical and manual
A Robinson Crusoe too much for the youngster, but lowered at the end of a rope and Adrift on Adventure won the shouting to some boys near by the cutting the harness away from the
à Raft nilver cross for Scout Scout Instructed them to form a animal.:
- R. Gwynne, aged 15, human chain. Scouts A. Chapple of the 1st Hawkesbury Troop. and J. Bishop, of the rd Fort Three boys in a raft drifting to William Troop, and Scout D. Me- wards the rapids in the River Kenna, of the 20th Ottawa Troop, „Ottawa struck a rock, Gwynie, an won their silver crosses in drown
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the gilt cross Scout A. E. Bewell, aged 15, of He Was winn Scout R. Cadillac, Saskatchewan, met e "Prepared" Brown aged 15, of party of boys bathing. One went
the
Moscow beyond his depth, but Sewell ap-
EXTREMES IN EXERCISE
Four members of the Ipoh Boy
Medals For four gilt crdeses, expert swimmer, dived from the ing rescues Scout Chapple, al- of the 1st Parklanda Troop, On work helps to develop the limited Brave Scouts and one medal of river bank into the treacherous though, only twelve-saved lad tarin., Garland skated out and faculties of the mentally-defective meilt have Just swift-running river, and regardless of sixteen, after being repeatedly pushed his hockey stick across the girl, and prevents deterioration. ice to a lad who had fallen It promotes observation, self-
reliance and self-respect." been awarded to Canadian Boy of the rapids close by, swam to the clutched..
through, and so saved his life. Scouts by the Dominion Chief rock. He returned with one of the marooned party, and then, with Sedat, Lord Willingdon. Of the resistatance, saved the other two clplents seven are under sixteen inds. To save a full-grown man, Fears of age,The silver cross with wearing heavy high boots, from a ita blue ribbon is the Scout move whirling current, which had twice Troop,, practised the Scout motto, preached from behind and pushed Scouts in the Christmas holidays
sucked its victim under, in a "Be Prepared!" Awakened by man's-size job. This was the feat cry of distress and a light waving | Lanon that gained the silver cross for Brown, dressing as he ran, minde Scout B. Gant, aged 14, of the 2nd for the neighbouring Mug Lake A
buggy, had fallen through the Ice Lethbridge Troop, Alberta.
The horse's head showed surface while man's shoulders ware visible on the buggy Beat the Scout trieć
ment's second highest award: for Fallantry with considerable risk. The gilt cross with blue and red ribbon, given for gallantry without uperlai cink, comes next; the medal d for other méri- award"
When he saw the vic A Human tim, name Smith,
Chain
and stood
the victi
ahore. Scout took a long cycling tour, covering Anthony, aged 14, of the some eighty miles a day, with Ligne Troop, Saskat- somewhat serious resulta. The et recipient of a District Commissioner for Perak, escue in view of this unfortunate onding of what should have been a pleasant tour, has issued an official order prohibiting Scouts under his pervision from exceeding twenty 'day on long distance cycle is surely going from to the other,
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930.
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