Barnes and Noble reprinted the orginal 1920 Girl Scout Handbook and I was reading about the merit badges. Here is what a girl needed to do in order to earn the Cyclist merit badge:

"1. Own a bicycle, and care for it, cleaning, oiling and making minor repairs, readjusting chain, bars and seat.
2. Be able to mend a tire.
3. Demonstrate the use of a road map.
4. Demonstrate leading another bicycle while riding.
5. Know the laws of the road right of way, lighting and so forth.
6. Make satisfactory report to Captain of a bicycle Scouting expedition as to the condition of a road with camping site for an over-night hike.
7. Pledge the bicycle to the government in time of need."

From Scouting for Girls, The Original 1920 Girl Scout Handbook
Barnes and Noble, 2005 Page 507 (I know that isn't the official way to cite something, sorry!)


#6 Sounds like fun: a bicycle Scouting expedition
#7 While this requirement would give me angst now, it wouldn't have if I lived in 1920.