“What would you suggest that we could do to earn money?” she said. “All we can do is dance, and mamma won’t let us dance in public until we are grown up. We don’t know how to do anything else.”
“Marian, I get awfully cross with you sometimes,” laughed Miss Hooker. “What are those two merit badges on your sleeve?”
“Oh, those!” said Marian in a helpless voice. “The gridiron for Cooking and the palm leaf for Invalid Cooking. But I can’t go out and cook.”
“What can you make best?” asked Miss Hooker.
Another girl spoke up. “She makes the loveliest jellies you ever tasted and they always stand right up, never slump over at all.”
“And you, Evelyn Webster, what is that on your sleeve?”
“The palette,” said Evelyn.
“There you are!” said Miss Hooker. “What is the good of earning these badges if you are never going to make use of the things they stand for?” She picked up the Girl Scouts Hand Book that was lying on her lap, and turning over the pages said, “Listen to this:
“Employment.