In Europe Girl Scouts are called Girl Guides and this is what they have done abroad during the Great War.
In the towns they have helped at the Military Hospitals as assistants to the ward-maids, cooks, and laundry women. In the Government offices, such as the War Office, the Admiralty, and other great departments of the State, they have acted as orderlies and messengers. They have taken up work in factories, or as motor-drivers, or on farms, in order to release men to go to the front.
At home and in their club-rooms they have made bandages for the wounded, and warm clothing for the men at the Front and in the Fleet.
(S.T. stands for “Stand tall and Sit tall”)
In the country they have collected eggs for the sick, and on the moors have gathered sphagnum moss for the hospitals.
Over in France a great Recreation and Rest Hut for the soldiers has been supplied by the Guides with funds earned through their work. It is managed by Guide officers, or ex-Guides. Among the older Guides there are many who have done noble work with the Hospitals at home and overseas; there was one in particular who went through great adventures in Serbia during the invasion of that country.
A Hostel Scout.
At home in many of the great cities the Scouts have turned their Headquarters’ Club-Rooms into “Hostels.” That is, they have made them into small hospitals ready for taking in people injured in air-raids by the enemy.