A tepee made and ornamented by one of the Woodcraft Girls.
side shaded by chestnuts or butternuts, you have seen nimble little squirrels rushing along fences, waving to you from high branches, and you may have stopped to watch them bury every other nut. Have you asked yourself why this is done? If you have an answer, then you know one of the twelve secrets.
And if you have ever wandered far enough from your city home in the East or the West to discover the "manna food" that grows on rocks summer and winter. and holds up its hands in the Indian sign of innocence, proclaiming its goodness to the world, then you know another secret, a secret that might save your life if you chance to be lost in the woods or on the prairie or along the seashore.
To know all these twelve secrets is to be more or less self-reliant and self-contained as a human being. You may not need them on Broadway, although they would add to your happiness there because you would feel richer than most people you meet; but if you are determined to have real life as well as cosmopolitan life, then they must be a part of your educational equipment, a very important part, but really just the beginning of it. The Woodcraft League is really a new kind of education for the American girl; it is a fine democratic sort of education, because it is equally important for every girl from every walk of life. There is no girl who wants a really happy, useful life who can afford not to have this education. and the life of every girl, whatever her occupation in life. will be the richer for it. Also, I firmly believe that it will bring together young people from various so-ealled stations, break down the barriers that society has foolishly placed between them. and establish in their minds while they are young a finer kind of humanity. a real understanding that the important thing is the association of the human spirit, the organization ..text pokračuje
