Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-06

paper writer's" the .Acorn," ''Wants to Know" and two Antitrust" societies.
 The Equity club is peculiar in that it has no local habitation, being a correspond ence club for women engaged in the study and practice of law. Its members are scattered over two continents and com municate only by means of contributed letters which are printed annually. There are a number of Press clubs, educational and industrial unions, social science, and health protective clubs, and the outgrowths of the ssWoman's club'' of Chicago are physiological society. protective agency for women and children, and an industrial art association with five classes. The Friday club, also of Chicago, has a membership of one hundred north side young women who, under the leadership of Mrs. De Koven, daughter of Senator Farwell, meet once a week and unravel the mysteries to be found in the writing of Dante, Brown ing, Tolstoi or Ibsen. The nineteenth century furnishes name for several clubs, the new century supplies others, while a society organized in the present year-Chicago again-boldly reaches out to grasp the future and appropriates for it's own the twentieth century. The origi- nal Sorosis of New York has several namesakes, and even in far away India there is found to be a Bombay Sorosis club organized in 1SS9.
 The aim of all these associations, wheth- CT of numbers of cultured women with time and wealth at command, or whether composed of few wage-winners to whom the purchase of book means sacrifice, seems to be the same-to improve them selves and others; to keep pace with the march of events, and to possess their free hold of all that is best and most ennob ling.
 SCHOOL OF MANUAL TRAINING.
 The free mechanical school for boys from the Boston high and grammar schools, which MT. A. L. Murdock has been laboring for years to establish, will be opened September 10. For the use of the school Mir. Murdock furnishes free of all expense three floors of a large building on Huntington avenue, and, being unable to obtain from the city the necessary | financial support, he has appealed to the Master. Mechanics association with good | success, as each society of stone-cutters, masons, carpenters, painters, plumbers, etc, will supply him, not only With l skilled instructors for the day and even | ing schools, but also with tools and stock. | The evening classes will be for adults l who wish to avail themselves of such ad- vantages, and mechanical drawings will form park of each course. The classes will be so organized that there will be no surplus in any one branch of mechanics, and | upon graduation Mr. Murdock thinks there will be "a sufficient number of graduates to erect any building from foundation to roof without calling on outside help" By another year it is hoped that the school may be sufficiently enlarged to offer the same advantages to girls in the study of suitable trades that are now provided fol boys.
 1t is said that the most practical method of teaching manual training is now in uss
 at St. Paul, Minn. Tacoma, Wash, young
 est of our cities, realizing the necessity oi
 mechanical education, is planning to es
 tablish such a school. Must we fear that
 the star of education has already taken it!
 way so far westward that unless we haster
 it's light may be lost to us and we be com
 pelled to wait for our school of manua
 training until, after the lapse of untolt
 years and the educational illuminations O
 Asia and Africa, the star in its cours
 shall return to usl
 This will be dreadful if true. Have WI
 not a Murdock among us, man witl
 mind, money and enthusiasm, to push tn
 work of manual teaching already well be
 gun in our schools and we'll enjoyed b,
 those fortunate ones who have been bene | fitted by its HILARY.