The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-25

Great rrogrcss Made All Over the Country.
nnd Especially In the west.

Great rrogrcss Made All Over the Country.
and Especially In the west.
| This year hns been one Of wonderful success
| and progress in the working girls club move
ment Other cities, particularly those Of the
West, arc taking up the idea and 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 Ia 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 tho practical ethics OF associate self-gov-
eminent and self-support.
IN Chicago the interest is most active and
pregnant with practical results. though car
ried on along somewhat different lines from
those laid down here. The Chicago idea is a
lunch club" one Of which is already very
successful, and two moro have been organized
under proptious conditions. The Lunch Club
rooms are usually in some great warehouse.
near business centres. 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 u cup Of hot tea or broth. or may buy at
very reasonable rates warm luncheon There
is. besides. a pleasant parlor furnished with
comfortable chairs. couches. books. and a
piano. and here she spends her fifteen min
utcs' respite from work in reading dancing.
chatting. or In ENJOYING simple entertain tl-
enss fy herself and hsr
tho girl pays small fee.
Not content with this phase Of tho work. the
out and assist them in organizing the evening
clubs 70 popular here, aud she has Just re-
ns IN
In the Eastern Cities where organisation ts
accomplished. the work OF progression and
ers.. About the suburbs d. Boston new clubs
are being constantly formed and united IN the
recently gathered all her various erganiza-
tions into great state association, Brooklyn
has Ob th9 working
ai Of nv WSoREins ar e csss
E&inute ana 1ssi With
gizedd purpose and EFFORT The mother club: as
ze s WITH six memb eee mi. nine years S ago now
surplus emergency fund in its treasury. occu.
or falling or in membership: al! summer the
hospitablP rooms were opened. when half the
the July and August meetings were always
crowded with enthusiastic members The
Work Is being carried on az usual IN gu the oia
to be introduced this winter The design Of this
new interest is to supplement the university
courses OF study. class instruction. courses o:
lectures. correspondence. examinations. dc.
and thus to develop broader culture among
those who have been de barred from the i'd
vantage OF college or academic training.
The great. oil absorbing INTEREST," Is, however.
the Worlds Fair. ut which the clubs have been
may be doomed practicable. The clubs. as or;
ganizations. have no particular industrial
now being considcred by which they. or repre-.
sentative members OF them. may be present to
q "a N RI N n q
Congresses Of tho economic. industrial. and
topics included In these discussions will
be THE Industrial Condition OF Women" in
Guiding relative wages compared with those
OF men. relative value OF wages proportioned
to cost OF living; occupations benefits derived
pendence OF Women" and Social Theories
and Experiments are among the subjects. in
all Of which tho girls clubs have been en-
gagged. carefully studying and freely discuss;
opinions are worthy the most thoughtful con-
federation and ATTENTION. and thoroughly illus
girl as means OF education and elevation.