Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Part 89

4. Know how thread, silk and needles are numbered and what the numbers indicate.

5. Know how to measure and plan fullness for edging or lace.

6. Know how to lay a pattern on cloth, cut out a simple article of wearing apparel and make same.

Use this article to demonstrate as much of question 1 as possible.

7. Knit, either a m.u.f.fler, sweater or baby's jacket and cap and crochet one yard of lace or make a yard of tatting.

8. Hemst.i.tch or scallop a towel or bureau scarf and work an initial on it in cross st.i.tch.

REFERENCES:

"Complete Dressmaker," C. E. Laughlin, Appleton.

"Art in Needlework," S. F. Day, Scribner.

[Ill.u.s.tration: PATHFINDER

SYMBOL--A HAND POINTING]

1. Describe the general plan of the city, town or village in which you live, locate the princ.i.p.al shopping, business and residence districts and know how to reach them from any quarter of the city, town or village. Be able to direct a person to the nearest place of wors.h.i.+p to which they desire to go, OR

Describe in a general way the towns.h.i.+p or county in which you live giving the princ.i.p.al roads, naming two of the nearest and largest cities or towns, giving their distance from your residence and telling how to reach them.

2. Know the route of the princ.i.p.al surface car and subway lines, OR

The name of the nearest railroad division to your residence and four of the princ.i.p.al cities or towns through which it pa.s.ses within a distance of one hundred miles.

3. Know at least three historic points of interest within the limits of your city, town or village, how to get to them and why they are historic, OR

Tell of three things of interest concerning the history of your own community.

4. Know the name and location of the Post Office, Telegraph and Telephone Stations, Public Library, City or Town Hall, one Hospital of good standing, one hotel or inn, three churches, one Protestant, one Catholic, one Synagogue, and the nearest railroad, OR

Know the name, location and distance from your home or village of the nearest Library, Hospital, Church, Post Office, Telegraph and Telephone and Railroad Stations.

5. Know the name and location of three buildings or places in your city, town or village, of interest from a point of beauty either of architecture, decoration or surroundings, OR

Know and locate three places of interest within ten miles of your home, because of beautiful views or surroundings, OR give directions for taking a walk through beautiful woods, lanes or roads.

6. Draw a map of the district around your home covering an area of one quarter square mile, noting streets, schools and other public buildings, fire alarm boxes, at least one public telephone booth, one doctor's office, one drug store, one provision store, and four points of the compa.s.s. Draw to scale, OR

Draw a map covering a half square mile of country around your home noting schools and any other public buildings, roads, lanes, points of interest, historic or otherwise, streams, lakes and four cardinal points of the compa.s.s. Map must be drawn to scale.

7. Know how to use the fire alarm, how to consult telephone directory, how to call for a.s.sistance in case of water leak, accident, burglary, forest fire and how to call the police for any other emergency.

8. Find any of the four cardinal points of the compa.s.s by sun or stars, by use of a watch and a cane or stick.

REFERENCES:

Sections in Handbook on "Woodcraft," and "Measurements and Map-making,"

and publications of local Historical Societies, Guides and Directories.

[Ill.u.s.tration: PHOTOGRAPHER

SYMBOL--CAMERA ON STANDARD]

1. Submit six good photographs, interior and out of door, taken, developed and printed by self, OR twelve good photographs taken by self including portraits, animals, out of door and indoor subjects.

2. What const.i.tutes a good picture?

3. Give three rules to be followed in taking interiors, portraits and out of door pictures.

4. Name and describe briefly the processes used in photography.

5. Tell what a camera is and name and describe the princ.i.p.al parts of a camera.

6. What is a film? What is a negative?

7. What position in relation to the sun should a photographer take when exposing a film?

8. Should a shutter be operated slowly? If so, why?

9. What causes buildings in a picture to look as if they were falling?

10. What precautions should be taken when reloading a camera and taking out an exposed film?

11. What is an enlargement? How is it made?

12. What are the results of under exposure and over exposure?

13. What are the results of failing to take the proper camera distance, having improper light and allowing the camera to move?

14. If there is more than one method of exposing a film what determines the method to be used?

REFERENCES:

"How to Make Good Pictures," Eastman Kodak Company.

"The Photo Miniature," such numbers as appear to be needed.

"Nature and the Camera," A. R. Dugmore, Doubleday.

"Photography for Young People," T. Jenks, Stokes.

"Why My Photographs Are Bad," C. M. Taylor, Jacobs.