Scouts as an office headquarters," and
more and more girls are learning to agree with her every year.

Our British cousins are the greatest lovers of out-of-door life in the
world, and it is only natural that we should look to our Chief Scout to
hear what he has to say to his Girl Guides on this subject so dear to
his heart that he founded Scouting, that all boys and girls might share
his enthusiastic pleasure in going back to Nature to study and to love
her and to gain happiness and health from her woods and fields.

HOW CAMPING TEACHES THE GUIDE LAW

Last year a man went out into the woods in America
to try and see if he could live like the
prehistoric men used to do; that is to say, he
took nothing with him in the way of food or
equipment or even clothing--he went just as he
was, and started out to make his own living as
best he could. Of course the first thing he had to
do was to make some sort of tool or weapon by
which he could kill some animals, cut his wood and
make his fire and so on. So he made a stone axe,
and with that was able to cut out branches of
trees so that he could make a trap in which he
eventually caught a bear and killed it. He then
cut up the bear and used the skin for blankets and
the flesh for food. He also cut sticks and made a
little instrument by which he was able to ignite
bits of wood and so start his fire. He also
searched out various roots and berries and leaves,
which he was able to cook and make into good food,
and he even went so far as to make charcoal and to
cut slips of bark from the trees and draw pictures
of the scenery and animals around him. In this way
he lived for over a month in the wild, and came
out in the end very much better in health and
spirits and with a great experience of life. For
he had learned to shift entirely for himself and
to be independent of the different things we get
in civilization to keep us going in comfort.

That is why we go into camp a good deal in the Boy
Scout and in the Girl Guide movement, because in
camp life we learn to do without so many things
which while we are in houses we think are
necessary, and find th