Ju-jitsu has many excellent points, too, in that direction.
"Bowmanship."—Crossbow shooting. Scouts should, if possible, make their own crossbows.
"Longbowmanship" as by the archers of the Middle Ages. Scouts to make their own bows and arrows if possible. Read Aylward's doings in "The White Company."
"Quarter Staff Play" with scouts' staves, as played by the yeomen and apprentices in old days.
CAMP FIRE YARN.—No. 22.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT.
Religion—Thrift—How to get on.
TO INSTRUCTORS.
This camp fire yarn opens to instructors a wide field for the most important work of all in this scheme of Boy Scouts, and gives you an opportunity for doing really valuable work for the nation.
The prevailing want of religion should be remedied by a practical working religion rather than a too spiritual one at first.
Self-Employment.—A great amount of poverty and unemployedness results from boys being allowed to run riot outside the school walls as loafers, or from being used early in life as small wage-earners, such as errand boys, etc., and then finding themselves at the commencement of manhood without any knowledge of a trade to go on with, and unable to turn their hand to any work out of their one immediate line. They are helpless and unemployable. It is here that as instructor you can do invaluable work for the boy, by getting each in turn to talk privately over his future, and to map out a line for himself, and to start preparing himself for it. Encourage him to take up "hobbies" or handicrafts.