Produced by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://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) GIRL SCOUTS THEIR HISTORY AND PRACTICE "_Be Prepared_" [Illustration: Emblem] [Illustration: LESSONS IN FOOD CONSERVATION] GIRL SCOUTS Incorporated NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 189 Lexington Avenue _New York City_ _Series No. 6_ GIRL SCOUTS MOTTO "_Be Prepared_" [Illustration: Emblem] SLOGAN "_Do A Good Turn Daily_" PROMISE On My Honor, I Will Try: To do my duty to God and to my Country To help other people at all times To obey the Scout Laws LAWS I A Girl Scout's Honor is to be trusted. II A Girl Scout is loyal. III A Girl Scout's Duty is to be useful and to help others. IV A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every other Girl Scout. V A Girl Scout is Courteous. VI A Girl Scout is a friend to Animals. VII A Girl Scout obeys Orders. VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful. IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty. X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought, Word and Deed. GIRL SCOUTS _History of the American Girl Scouts._ When Sir Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement in England, it proved too attractive and too well adapted to youth to make it possible to limit its great opportunities to boys alone. The Sister organization, known in England as the Girl Guides, quickly followed it and won equal success. Mrs. Juliette Low, an American visitor in England, and a personal friend of the father of Scouting, realized the tremendous future of the movement for her country; and with the active and friendly co-operation of the Baden-Powells, she founded the Girl Guides in America, enrolling the first patrols in Savannah, Georgia, in March, 1912. In 1913 National Headquarters were established in Washington, D.C., and the name changed to Girl Scouts. In 1915 the organization was incorporated with the legal title, Girl Scouts, Incorporated. In 1916 National Headquarters were moved to New York and the methods and standards of what was plainly to be a nation-wide organization became established on a broad, practical basis. The first National Convention was held in 1915, and each succeeding year has shown a larger and more enthusiastic body of delegates and a public more and more interested in this steadily growing army of girls and young women who are learning in the happiest way to combine patriotism, outdoor activities of every kind, skill in every branch of domestic science and high standards of community service.