Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-03
One Dollar Per Year.

portunities, mental, moral and physl-
cal, of the individual working girl,
who is able to earn her own living, but
unable, without combining with other
girls, to obtain all that she desires be-
You'd the necessaries of life.'
Miss Dodge gives very interesting
report of some of the work done in the
past six years, and of the various ways
in which the work has developed, One
outgrowth is the, children's dressmak-
ing company, organized little over n
year ago with capital of $1,000, and
seventeen members and two stockhold-
ers. The demand for the articles made
began almost at once, and within six
months the number employed had to be
nearly doubled, and the capital increas-
ed The profits of the company are to
be shared by the stockholders and en-
ployes, receiving each one.third, the
last third forming sinking fund for
the enlargement of the business.
The Penny provdent fund is consid-
cred one Of the most valuable institu-
buttons of the clubs. The deposits
made in one year by twelve members
alone amounted to Sl,94l. A mutual
benefit fund has also been established,
the object being to provide for the
members in case of illness or death.
Any working girl who is member in
good standing OF one of the clubs of
the association of working girls So
ceties is entitled to become n member
An initiation fee of fifty cents is charg
ed and the dues are twenty-five cents
each month. In case of illness mem
Der is paid IS week for not more than
six consecutive weeks in one year, and
any member who has paid her dues for
five years from the date of becoming q
member, and has received no benefits,
is paid the aggregate amount of such
dues.
"The Domestic Circle" is an outcome
of the girls club life. Many of the
members have been married during the
last six years, and these and others of
their married friends have formed 'cir-
cles," They are designed to broaden
the ideas of the members, to educate in
home and household matters and to de-
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meetings members and visitors bring
their babies and young children, toys
being provided for their amusement
Topics selected by the girls themselves
for discussion during the present year
are Selecting and furnishing home,"
What is required to make useful
life?' Competition between men and
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younger brothers, and how?" Are
women moral reformers?" abraham
Lincoln and his life" and 1.-The friend
ships of two women contrasted" These
are selected at random from printed
list.
An occasional evening at Miss Dodge's
own club on Thirty-eighth street is
given to impromptu papers. The girls
all sit down and in a given time-say
three minutes-write out their thoughts
on subject selected beforehand.
The scribbling is done on the paper on
which ribbon is rolled, it being re.
served by the girls for this purpose.
;, "What has club-life done for me?" was
q one of the topics recently discussed,
{ and which brought out, among others,
: the following answers: ut has filed a
p long-felt want, in having place to
q spend pleasant and profitable even
). ing, at a small cost Has also aided in
a creating true and lasting friendships
:, Has taught us to look for all that is
brightest and best in one another" at
n has given me good education and a
!. great deal of pleasure and good com.
i pany;" Club life is most pleasant
r feature in a working girls life--an ed
p ucation on many useful and practical
Il subjects" and ut has elevated the
h working class in the minds of the world
6 in general" One small piece of paper
g contained the word Everything"
a which was evidently what one girl con-
q sidered was putting the matter in nut
shell.
A 81 am asked" says Miss Dodge, "by
# what right am member of the work.
n ing girls club, and why Mrs. Richard
# Irwin and others are admitted. The
!. club girls settled that question them
6 selves one evening at discussion. l,
" was decided that Mrs. Richard Irwin
e and others were working women, but
ii they might be said to be working with
% money not for money. 1t is not q
10 question of dollars and cents, or of the
At kind of work. One member may b.
just as busy keeping house for he,
q. mother as another girl is in shop, ant
te it was thoroughly agreed that boil
Of have an equal right of membership. A,
e. matter of fact have no more voice
Id in the Thirty-eighth street club thar
m the youngest cash girl"
lie Woman's Place.
OF A woman's place in the world il
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