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A Training School For Womanhood – 1918

Call me crazy but I enjoy reading books and stories written years and years ago. Why? Because I believe they tell us of the perceptions and expectations society had regarding women. These stories were the ones our great-great grandmothers, great-grandmothers, grandmothers and mothers read and heard - and, these were the generations that help to influence how girls and women are perceived today. I find [...]

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1925 Excerpt From Girl Scout Handbook

The Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts of 1925 is now in the Public Domain. I was reading through it (yes, for fun) and thought I’d share this portion with you. Let me know what you think of this excerpt. In 1832 there was born a little New England girl who would very early in [...]

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