Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works put online by Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program, Women Working 1800 - 1930) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1921, No. 46 EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE GIRL SCOUTS LOUISE STEVENS BRYANT EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY GIRL SCOUTS [Advance sheets from the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1918-1920] [Illustration: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR] WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 5 CENTS PER COPY EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE GIRL SCOUTS. By LOUISE STEVENS BRYANT, _Educational Secretary, Girl Scouts._ CONTENTS.--History and growth--Activities--Methods--Organization. Do you believe that girls should like to work at home, to cook and clean house and mind the baby? Do you believe that a girl should like to take care of her clothes and be able to make them; that she should know how to be thrifty and to conserve the family money in buying and using food and clothing; that she should play a fair game and put the group above her personal interests? Do you believe that she should value a strong healthy body above clothes and cosmetics, and rejoice in the hope of being some day the healthy mother of healthy children? If you do, you believe in the Girl Scouts, for in this organization the girls learn all these things in such a happy way that they _like_ to do them, which means that they keep on doing them. The Girl Scouts, a national organization, is open to any girl who expresses her desire to join, and voluntarily accepts the promise and the laws. The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls the opportunity for group experience, outdoor life, and to learn through work, but more by play, to serve their community. Patterned after the Girl Guides of England, the sister organization of the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts have developed a method of self-government and a variety of activities that appear to be well suited to the desires of the girls, as the 89,864 scouts and the 2,500 new applicants each month testify. HISTORY AND GROWTH.