Milford chronicle., 1891-11-13
woRKINe oIRLsI CLUES ExTENDINa.
Great Progress Made All over the Coun-
try and EsnecInlIy In thn Nnst


Great Progress Made All Over the Coun-
try, and Especially In the West
This year has been one Of wonderful sue
cess and progress in the working girls
club movement Other cities, particularly
thnse Of the west, are taking up the idea
ami most actively carrying on the work of
organization. St. Paul, ST. Louis and other
places have sent on delegates to study into
the details OF the work, which is one Of the
most purely cooperative schemes that has
ever been pushed to success. Savants in
and expounders Of sociology come, too, to
sit down and learn of this body of girls the
practical ethics OF associate self govern
ment and self support.
In Chicago the interest is most active
and pregnant with practical results, though
carried on along somewhat different lines
from those laid down here. The Chicago
idea Is "lunch club" one Of which is al
ready very successful, and two more have
been organized under propitiOus condi-
tiOns. The lunch club rooms are usually
in some great warehouse, near business
centers, easy Of access to the girl workers
in factories or shops mt the lunch hour.
They are fitted up with small tables, where
the girl may eat the lunch brought from
her home, supplemented. BIZ cup of hot
tea or broth, or may buy at very reason
able rates warm luncheon. There is be-
sides pleasant parlor furnished with
comfortable chairs, couches, books and
piano, and here she spends her fifteen min
Rtes' respite from work in reading, dane
ing, chatting or in enjoying simple enter
tainments arranged by herself and her
clever companions. For the privilege Of
these rooms the girl pays small fee
Not content with this phase Of the work,
the Chicago clubs sent on for Miss Dodge
to come out and assist them in organizing
the evening clubs so popular here, and she
has returned reporting intense enthusiasm
in the movement.
In the eastern cities, where organization
is accomplished the work Of progression
and association engages the energy Of club
workers About the suburbs of Boston
new clubs are being constantly formed
and united in the Massachusetts, associa-
tion. Connecticut has recently gathered
all her various organizations into great
state association. Brooklyn has club as
sociation, including the working girls
clubs and those of other societies.
New York city possesses the great typ
ical Association of Working Girls'---l--lss-
self governing, self supporting, coo.
tive IN IT'S ulOsU minute iAftlCulhrl H.s
vital with energized purpose and effort.
The mother club, as the Thirty-eighth
street club is called, organized with six
members nine years ago, now has $50 mem-
bers, pays all its expenses, has IA surplus
emergency fund IN its treasury, occupies
an entire house, ana never has vacation
or falling of in membership. All sum
Iner the hospitable rooms were opened,
when half the churches in the city had
locked their doors, and the July and
August meetings were always crowded
with enthusiastic members.
The work is being carried on as usual in
all the old classes, and university and
school extensiea he introduced this
winter. The design Of tn7''.-,,sy interest is
to SUPPLEMENT- the university and school
systems by means of outlines for -sSfEses
OF STUDY, class Instruction eGuTses ations el ETC.
..u to develop broader cul.ute e,s
an k,se who have been debarred IRON ron
an ge Of college or academic Vli'ii.-
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