Knitting
Of course you can do knitting either with a machine or with knitting needles by hand, but I strongly advise doing it by hand for though it is a little bit more difficult to learn at first it is much more pleasing afterwards. By being able to knit you can do good turns to other people very often indeed. All people, men and women, are glad to have warm things made for them in winter time, and by being able to knit a Brownie can lend a hand and give great happiness to other people.
Fold Clothes Neatly
A soldier or sailor on going to bed always puts his clothes neatly in some spot where he can find them readily in the dark and slip into them quickly in the case of alarm. And so also Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts do the same, because you never know when an accident may happen; the house may be on fire, or a thief may break in, and you may want your clothes suddenly in the dark. If you have them already folded in their place, you can readily find them and be quickly dressed. But if your clothes are lying all over the place it is impossible to find them in the dark. But there is another reason also for keeping your clothes neatly folded. And that is that they last much longer when properly taken care of, and always look neat, instead of getting baggy, worn and thread-bare. No true Brownie ever leaves her clothes lying about in an untidy way.
To Carry a Message in Your Head
Scouts and Brownies are very often employed as messengers and have done very good work. That is why so many of them have won War Service badges in the Great War. And the reason they are used is because they remember what is told them, carry it in their heads and deliver it properly. A Brownie learns her message by heart as soon as it is given to her, and repeats it to the person who gives it; then she keeps on repeating it while she goes along, and remembers that all the time she is going she is on duty, and therefore it is her business not to stop and loiter and look at other things, but to get her duty done. In this way her attention fixed on her work she can always deliver her message at the end of the journey quite correctly as she got it in the first instance.
Applying a Triangular Bandage
This is a thing that every Brownie ought to know how to do. It looks quite easy when you see other people do it, but it is most important that you should know how to do it yourself, and to do it correctly, because when people are injured it is necessary for a Brownie to keep her head and to be able to put on the bandage so that it will do real good, and not merely look like a good bandage
There are a great many ways of applying the triangular bandage. When you become a Scout you will learn these. At present the three most useful ways are given you, and as you only have three to learn you will be expected to apply these really well. The large arm-sling is used to support the forearm and hand. This is how you put it on. Open out the triangular bandage, lay it across the patient’s chest so that the point comes under the elbow of the injured arm. One of the ends will then be over the good shoulder. Take hold of the other end and bring it up over the bad shoulder, round the neck, and tie it in a square or reef knot. Then fold the point over the elbow and pin it neatly.
To apply a triangular bandage to a sprained ankle, fold it into what is called a “wide bandage.” This means bring the point down to the base, then fold it once again.