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...city's distinguished guest a handsome bouquet, and an eloquent French welcome. The lad picked up a bottle of champagne from the carriage floor, squirted it full in his beaming face. While the gushing stream coursed down over the mayor's best suit of clothes, the gay youngster, taking the Battle of Flowers in too literal a sense, seized the proffered bouquet and brought it down vigorously on the donor's head. M. Nouveau's emotions were inexpressible...
...most dignified of my children. He never did any such thing at home and I can't imagine him doing any such thing abroad. If it happened. I am sure he didn't know the identity of the mayor. It is a perfectly understandable thing for any youngster to do, in such a fete, where everyone was throwing flowers and celebrating, if he didn't know who the mayor...
Relatively young men who were Scouts only a few years ago are often ignorant of Scouting's present ramifications. Instead of entering the Scouts at 12, a youngster may now enter as a "Cub" at 9. After three years in a Cub Pack, he may become a tenderfoot Scout after learning the knots, etc., etc.; a second-class Scout after learning first aid, woodcraft, etc., etc.; then a first-class Scout after swimming 50 yards, etc., etc.; a Star Scout after winning five merit badges, a Life Scout (ten merit badges) and an Eagle Scout (21 merit badges...
...that Life Camps would go on, that for the first year all administrative expenses would be paid by the magazine, so that every dollar sent in by contributors would be converted into one full day in the country for one boy or girl (it costs $14 to keep a youngster in camp for a fortnight...
...photographers are going to Life Camps this month to record how life goes there. They have a high mark of eloquence to shoot at, for Percy Leo Crosby put it all down in pen & ink years ago in the old Life with a single drawing of a tattered youngster gazing at a rural vista and saying: "Gee, it's so beeyoo-tiful I'd like to give somebody a sock...