Following the Guiding Light Light ; Laura Davis Finds Out What It Means to Be a Brownie in the 21st Century

Daily PostJuly 12, 2005

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LORD Baden-Powell would be unlikely to recognise a 21st-century Brownie if it wasn't for the organisation's name emblazoned on the front of her zip-up hooded top.

Since a small group of girls approached the Army general in the early 1900s, asking for a female version of Scouts to be set up, the movement has changed dramatically.

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Following the Guiding Light Light ; Laura Davis Finds Out What It Means to Be a Brownie in the 21st Century

Brownies now make their own facemasks, search the internet for information on ethnic minority cultures and learn the dangers of sniffing solvents - all things that would probably make the original critics of girl guiding turn in their graves.

When Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides in 1910, ...

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