s, pound, or bulk, quarts, etc.
4. Tell how to choose furniture.
5. Make a list of table and kitchen utensils, dishes for dining-room and
glasses necessary for a family of four people.
6. How to make a fireless cooker, small refrigerator and window box for
winter use.
7. Prepare a budget showing proper per cent of income to be used for
food, shelter, clothing, savings, etc.
24. Interpreter. (Clasped Hands.)
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1. Be able to carry on a simple conversation in any other language than
her own.
2. Write a letter in a foreign language.
3. Read or translate a passage from a book or newspaper in French,
German, Italian, or in any other language than her own.
25. Laundress. (Flatiron.)
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1. Know how to wash and iron a garment, clear starch and how to do up a
blouse.
2. Press a skirt and coat.
3. Know how to use soap and starch, how to soften hard water, and how to
use a wringer or mangle.
26. Marksmanship. (Rifles.)
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1. Pass tests in judging distances, 300 to 600 yards and in miniature
rifle shooting, any position, twenty rounds at 15 or 25 yards, 80 out of
100.
2. Know how to load pistol, how to fire and aim or use it.
3. Or be proficient in fencing or archery.
27. Music. (Harp.)
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1. Know how to play a musical instrument. Be able to do sight reading.
Have a knowledge of note signs and terms.
2. Name two master composers and two of their greatest works.
3. Be able to name all of the 25 instruments in the orchestra in their
proper order.
4. Never play rag time music, except for dancing.
Or, as an alternative:
1. Have a knowledge of singing. Have a pleasing voice.
2. Know two Scout songs and be able to sing them, or lead the Scout
Troop in singing.
3. Be able to do sight reading.
4. Have a knowledge of note signs and terms.
Or, as an alternative:
1. Sound correctly on a Bugle the customary army calls of the United
States.
28. Naturalist. (Flower.)
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1. Make a collection of fifty species of wild flowers, ferns and grasses
and correctly name them. Or,
1. Fifty colored drawings of wild flowers, ferns or grasses drawn by
herself.
2. Twelve sketches or photographs of animal life.
29. Needlewoman. (Scissors.)
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1. Know how to cut and fit. How to sew by hand and by machine.
2. Know how to knit, embroider or crochet.
3. Bring two garments cut out
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