Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-07
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III 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 u "lunch club" one of which is al
ready very successful, and two more have
been organized under propitious condi-
tons. The lunch club rooms are usually
in some great warehouse, near business
! centers, easy of access to the girl workers
in factories or shops at the lunch hour.
They are fitted up with small tables, where
the girl may eat the lunch brought from
her home, supplemented by a cup Of hot
tea OF broth, or may buy ut very reason
able rates n warm luncheon. There is be-
sides pleasant paror furnished with
comfortable chairs couches, books and a
piano, and here she spends her fifteen min.
utes' 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 a small fee
Not content with this phase of tie 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-
ton. Connecticut has recently gathered
all her various organizations into a great
state association. Brooklyn has a club as
ISOLATION, including the working girls
clubs and those of other societies.
New York city possesses the great typ
ical Association of Working Girls clubs
self governing, self supporting, co-opera-
tive in its most minute particular, and
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 800 mem
bers, pays all its expenses, has IA surplus
emergency fund in its treasury, occupies
an entire house, and never has a vacation
or falling off in membership. All sum
mer 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 extension is to be introduced this
winter. The design of this new interest is
to supplement the university and school
systems by means of outlines for courses
of study, class instruction, courses of lee
lures, correspondence, examinations, etc,
and thus to develop broader culture
among those who have been debarred from
the advantage of college or academic train
ing.
The great, all absorbing interest is, how
ever, the Worlds fair, at which the clubs
have been invited to present such results
of their work as may be deemed practical
BILE Tine clubs, as organizations, have no
particular industrial products to present,
but arrangements are now being consid
cred by which they, or representative
members OF them, may be present to take
part in the discussions by the women's
congresses of the economic, industrial and
financial problems of the age. Among the
topics included in these discussions will be
"rhe Industrial Condition of Women"
including relative wages compared with
those Of men, relative value of wages pro-
portioned to cost of living, occupations,
benefits derived from organizations, etc.
1.-THE Economic Dependence of Women"
and Social Theories and Experiments"
are among the subjects, in all of which the
girls clubs have been engaged, carefully
studying and freely discussing for years,
until their practical ideas and opinions
are worthy the most thoughtful consider
alton and attention, and thoroughly illus
trate the influences of club life on the
working girl rs means of education and
elevation.-New York Sun.