The Girl Scouts' Good Turn

d a Scout meeting as soon as all the girls had arrived at school. But Miss Phillips had

ular program had been the sophomore reception. It was not until over a wee

rty, but by a quarter after the hour, e

for the troop, she saluted the Captain, who sat at a desk in the front. It seemed like old times; only th

orever," remarked Marjorie; "it seems aw

th, optimistically, who had never

len will be gone," continue

e ceaseless passage of time. Marjorie reflected, with a certain sense of sadness, that she too must graduate, and leave the school and the Scout tro

hillips, "since everybody is here, for there is a

t was so familiar to them all that they hardly thought of the words as they repeated them; to Marjorie

collected. As there were no committees to report,

lain that the troop met and decided to send a poor, ignorant, badly brought-up country girl to public school in this town, and to pay her board and buy her clothing all year. Her name is Frieda Hammer. And, as you

it would mean to Frieda-a girl of her own age! Now she would have pretty clothes that the Scouts would buy her, live in a lovely home in the village, where the Scouts would pay her board, and go to the public school. Sh

pt to conceal her disapproval of the project; she would have preferred to dir

. Johnson, in the village, tells me she will board Frieda for the special rate of six dollars a week-she's interested in her, too, and would

endid!" cri

hen, noticing the spirit of antagonism that her remark had aroused, she hastened to add, "I wouldn't mind if

arther; and Frances Wright, who, next to Marjorie, had been mo

sdainfully, "you sure

med Marjorie impulsivel

more discussion about the matter. We shall simply vote on the motion-if someone will be kind enough to mak

Miss Phillips asked Frances Wright to accompany her to the city

azaar. This I consider a splendid plan, so if you are all in favor of it, we shall start in making things for it immediate

e to her feet. After giving t

came to me to have a sort of Japanese fête, and charge admission. We could hire Japanese lanterns, and put up two or three attractive booths to sell refreshments, and I could sell rides in my

approval of the plan. As a mere matter of form, she called for a vote upon the question, and when the sugges

ptain, "I have a lovel

ts?" cried Ru

y want us to visit them, I think to give a Scout demonstrati

l Scouts," said Edith Evans. "Won't

Miss Watson, the gym teacher at Miss Martin's, to postpone the invitation until after the first of November, when our reports come out and the h

freshmen to meet the require

lassmen will qualify-girls like Mae VanHorn, for

jorie, shyly, "to make Frieda a Girl Scout? Co

lips wisely s

rong, and we must go very slowly. If she proves worthy, perhaps we can take her in later, although I would prefer to let her wait till she pas

y; and Ruth, sensitive to the reference, could

s' time at camp. But then I was going by the old handbook, and in the new one it is much more difficult; the signalling alone will probably require two months' study. I am going to ask Mr. Remington, the Boy Scoutmaster, to give the final test in the semaphore and Morse code, and ev

. "I sort of miscalcul

collection of the episode o

that," she added; "I guess I can

h!" remarked Ethel, with a

any good!" she flashed back. "You mark m

e to order! We shall now review our semaphore a

Marjorie and Lily sauntered

agement creeping into her voice, "till Ruth threw such cold wate

ly. "After you won the canoe, and I was elected class president against Ruth, I fee

n a little over a week, Frieda would arrive; from the very beginning Marjorie would adopt s

," she thought, as she turned out th