Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Part 77

2. What are the essential things to be considered when selecting vegetables to be canned, fruit to be preserved or made into jelly, jam or marmalade?

3. Give general rules for preparing fruits and vegetables for preserving in any way.

4. What kind of jars are considered best for preserving? What other materials are used for making holders besides gla.s.s? How should all utensils and jars, gla.s.ses, rubbers, be prepared before using?

5. What is essential regarding the heat?

6. What are the general rules for preserving fruit? Give proportions by measure or weight, time of cooking, amount of sugar, water or any other ingredient for the fruits that you have preserved, and for at least two others.

7. Give same rules for jams, marmalades and jellies.

8. Give directions for filling and sealing jars.

How can jars be tested within twenty-four hours after filling? If not air tight what should be done?

9. What should be done to all jars, tumblers, etc., before storing? How are canned goods best stored?

REFERENCES:

Government Bulletin--U. S. Department of Agriculture.

"Canning, Preserving and Jelly Making," J. McK. Hill, Little.

CHILD NURSE

SYMBOL--A MALTESE CROSS

[Ill.u.s.tration]

1. During a period of three months care for a little child, under two years, for a time equivalent to two hours daily for four weeks.

During this period all of the necessary work for routine care of a child must be demonstrated, including feeding, bathing, dressing, preparing for bed, arranging bed and windows, amusing, giving the air, and exercise, and so forth, according to directions in Handbook.

2. What are the most necessary things to be considered when caring for a child under three years of age? Elaborate on these points.

3. What are some of the results of neglecting to do these things? What is the importance of regularity in care, to child, to mother, or nurse?

4. Should a child be picked up or fed every time he cries? What is the result of so doing?

5. What are the important things to remember in lifting and handling children?

6. What things are important in connection with their sleeping, either in or out of doors? Up to what age should a child have two naps a day? One nap? What time should a child be put to bed?

7. How can a baby be encouraged to move itself and take exercise?

8. What should be done when preparing a baby's bath? How should the bath be given to a little baby? To an older child?

9. How is a child prepared for bed? How are the bed and room prepared?

10. What is the best food for a child up to nine months? If he cannot have this food, what can take its place, and how should it be given? What are the princ.i.p.al things to remember concerning the ingredients and preparation of this food, and the care of utensils?

11. At what age may a child be given solid food with safety? What foods are best and how should they be prepared?

12. When feeding a child either from a bottle or a spoon, what precautions should be taken? How often should a child under one year be fed? from one to two years?

13. When suffering from a cold what precautions should be taken? If it is necessary to continue to care for a child in spite of your cold? What is the wisest thing to do first if a child is ill?

REFERENCES:

"The Baby, His Care and Training," M. Wheeler, Harper.

"Care and Feeding of Children," Ernest Holt, Appleton.

"The Home and Family," Kinne and Cooley, Macmillan.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE CITIZEN***

SYMBOL--EIGHT-POINTED STAR]

1. Who is responsible for the government of your country?

2. Whose business is it to see that the laws are enforced?

3. How can you help make your Government better?

4. Give the best definition you know of our Government.

5. What are the princ.i.p.al qualifications for the vote in your State?

6. a. Who is a citizen? b. How can a person not a citizen become a citizen? c. What is the advantage of being a citizen?

7. Who makes the law for you in your State?

8. What part will you have in making that law?

9. What are the duties of the President of the United States and of each of his Cabinet?

10. Name five things on which the comfort and welfare of your family depend, which are controlled by your Government.

11. a. What is meant by a secret ballot? b. How can anyone tell how you vote?

12. What is the difference between registering to vote and enrolling in a political party?

13. If you enroll in a political party must you vote the straight ticket of that party?

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