Girl Guide Movement
In connection with the Girl Guide Movement, a troop of which will shortly be formed in Buntingford, there was a social gathering at the Congregational Schoolroom last Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs Martin was the speaker, and Mrs Fraser, Miss Gibbs, and Miss Elliott were also present. There was an attendance of about thirty.
In the course of a very interesting address on the aims and objects of the Guide Movement, Mrs Martin said the principal object was that of impressing upon the girls the necessity of teaching themselves, in order to make them practical and useful wives when they had homes of their own.
One other object was the teaching of common sense, which seemed to be omitted from the education given at school. The speaker said she thought that a girl who had received such instruction as home and sick nursing, ambulance, first aid and such like, would make a far better housewife than one who had only been taught such subjects as writing, arithmetic, &c.
Mrs Martin gave several illustrations of the courage displayed by guides, and said she hoped the Buntingford troop would be quite a successful one.
Refreshments were served to the company present, and the meeting then closed.
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