Identifier: ourlittlemenwome00russ (find matches)
Title: Our little men and women; modern methods of character building;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947 Everett, Marshall, 1863-1939
Subjects: Boy scouts. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Chicago, Printed by Homewood press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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SCOUT PATROLS AT THE SWIMMING HOLE All Good Scouts are Taught to Swim under Expert Instruction and with Perfect Safety 8. A scout is cheerful. He smiles whenever he can. His obedience to orders isprompt and cheery. He never shirks, nor grumbles at hard-ships. 9. A scout is thrifty. He does not wantonly destroy property. He works faith-fully, wastes nothing, and makes the best use of his oppor-tunities. He saves his money, so that he may pay his ownway, be generous to those in need, and helpful to worthy ob-jects. He may work for pay, but must not receive tips for cour-tesies or good turns. 10. A scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger in spite of fear, and hasto stand up for the right against the coaxings of friends or thejeers or threats of enemies, and defeat does not down him. 38 11.He speech,crowd. SCOUT PATROL IN ACTION A scout is clean. keeps clean in body and thought, stands for cleanclean sport, clean habits, and travels with a clean
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FIRST AID TO THE APPARENTLY DROWNED This Shows One Method of Emptying the Patients Lungs of Water BeforeRestoring Respiration 12. A scout is reverent. He is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religiousduties, and respects the convictions of others in matters ofcustom and religion. Every Saturday the boys visited their rendezvous in thewoods. They began to feel at home there. As the birds camenorth many of them made their nests near the camp and theboys decided to protect them, so that they could raise theiryoung unmolested. SCOUT PATROL IN ACTION 39 Every scout looked forward to the summertime, whenthey were to camp out. Mr. Manning selected a place on the stream which he saidwould make a good swimming hole as soon as it was warmenough. He told them the best strokes for swimming andespecially about the Australian crawl, which enables aswimmer to go fast. To use the crawl stroke theswimmer keeps his legs straight and does not kick at all. Hekeeps his arms straight and works the

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