Arizona republican., 1901-11-21

P. Hart reported that the club was or ganized in 1900 and the present menl- ] bership is thirty-four. Meetings are held in the library hall and their work 1 is divided into four departments-edu-
 cational, literary. current events and social. They are now interesting them | selves especially in securing a club
 house and to that end have secured 4 fund of s175.
 Mrs. T. w. Otis reported for the
 Monday club of Prescott. It was or i ganized six years ago and has forty 4. three members. Their principal object | is literary work. They established | library. interested some gentlemen in
 the enterprise formed library associ- i alton and raised S4.OOO to secure tn. ] $4,G00 offered by Mir. Carnegie. They ! hope to erect a library building on the
 city plaza and aim to do much for civic ! improvement in the future. The club
 has also done much for the decoration ! of @chool rooms.
 1 Mrs. Walter Talbot, regent of thc i Maricopa chapter. Daughters of the ! American Revolution, reported for that
 society that it was organized last Feh
 ruary and that its work is principally educational and thus far has been car
 ried on mostly in the schools. Last | year the society awarded a gold medal 1 for the best essay on revolutionary heroes and this year it has offered an- other for the best patriotic essay linl- l ited in length.
 The Friday club of Phoenix reported | through Mrs H. F. Robinson. It was ] organized in 1897 and it's work is mostly along historical lines. Although mum | beriug but fourteen members. the club ] esta blished library which at the end | of the year contained 1,200 volumes. i They maintained it till it was put into i the hands Of the library association and last year it was formally turned 1 over to the city and is now known as the Phoenix city library.
 The report from the Tucson Woman's club was read by Mr. A. M. Franklin in 1894 literary society. having only twelve members. In 1898 it was divided into departments of which cur rent events became the largest and in
 1900 the name ''Womans club" was adopted, and the limit was removed from membership. The club has de-
 lishtful quarters in rooms in the new Carnegie library.
 A very complete report was read of
 the Wouan's club Of Phoenix by Mrs. F. A. Fowler as follows:
 A little more than year ago an earnest. thoughtful woman invited , few O. her friends to consider with her the forua ton of a club which might become a center from which should ra- raGiate- in ever increasing circles, in- tellectual activity. moral force. up- building energy, pride in civic improve nent. broad social influences. and the inspiration of united effort. That wo-
 man is now and has been from the be- ginning the president of the Woman's club of Phoenix and the women she in spired are some of it's charter mem bers.
 Our club was started with ten mem
 bers and we number at present only ] about q score. for we have sought to grew sturdily rather than rapidly.
 During the first year of our club We met fortuightIy. emitting the four
 months of summer, with which ou. . valley is blessed.
 When planning for our first study w- discovered among the members a strong inclination toward history, and
 possibly a stronger attraction toward
 archaeology; but the suggestion pre- vailed that we lay broad and deep our
 foundation for historical or archaeolog- icai research; hence we were led to the
 study of primitive man, the man who
 lived and wrought before the days of aritten history, before the period of
 mural inscriptions and hieroglyphs, and lonE before the building of the com munaI houses whose crumbling walls enrich our deserts and our cliffs. Following this line of study, papers have been presented by the member;
 Of our club on "The Fitting of Earth's
 Surface Through Long Geological Ages Tor the Advent of Man. "The Earliest Traces of Mans Existence" Man and the Glacial Period Man in the Stone Age" The Age of Bronze and of Iron" The Tools, the Weapons. tha Food, the OuccupaUons and the Dwell ings of Primitive Man. The Develop ment of Language, of Counting. of WritinS;'' and as a result of this study we have today profound re- spect for the primitive savage. and m admirat ton for the barbarian which inspires us to further growth.
 When you reflect that our city is not rich in reference libraries. you will un- . derstand that our researches have been ofttimes wearisome, and that sue cesses and our failures have been val uable experiences.
 With the opening of this seasons work we felt the need of closer observ- alton of the worlds current affairs, while we continued our studies of the ethnical periods of the races of man, of the inventions and discoveries. ths. forms of government, of the family. etc, of prehistoric man; hence we de cidcd to hold our meetings weekly and l to divide our studies among the follow ing departments: Ethnology. forestry, current events. domestic science. book reviews. art. Our work is/now progress ing along these lines.
 Our club has joined the general fed eration of woman's clubs that we may be recipients of their accumulated wis dom, that we may be stimulated by th4 1 larger organization and inspired by the grand efforts Of older sister clubs
 Remembering the noble achievements [ of other organizations of women, which 1 have established libraries, kindergar- 1 ten. hospitals, clothed poor children