The Boy Scouts' Sisters Girl Guides and their auxiliary Brownies
are now so ubiquitous and so thoroughly a part of the accepted order of youthful things that it is almost a surprise to be reminded by Lord Baden-Powell that they did not exist before 1909 and were not organized till 1911. But the movement, once started, spread like wildfire, and now, according to its chief, numbers 1,094,000 girls in forty countries, three-fourths of the host being British. The enthusiasm that founded the Guides, far from diminishing, has grown with the years. Of the beneficent results of the organization none can be doubtful. The children themselves are interested and happy, and the thousands of young women who devote their leisure to the training of companies give and gain much. Now that the movement has attained its majority, we can all see how important and essential it was that the all- pervading Boy Scouts should have their feminine counter- parts, for the ideals which Lord Baden-Powell has so nobly preached must be the same for both sexes if our civilization is to progress.
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