The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-08
WoMEN'S CLUB NEWS.

says that since January, 1903, LOG
schools in sixteen states have asked
for S,484 pamphlets on civil service re-
form. The General Federation of Wom-.
ems Clubs has shown it's deep interest
in the movement, which has now be-
come national one, by appointing
committee, with Miss Bacon, No. 80
Dean street, Worcester, Mass, as
chairman, and has asked the various
clubs to cooperate. This committees
report at the st. Louis biennial will be
most interesting and valuable, since
that will afford the first opportunity to
judge of the extent of the interest
which the clubs are really. taking in
this movement to raise the standard of
public life. Club women have hitherto
hardly realized that the civil service is
not matter of clerical work alone. 1t
includes officers, attendants, nurses
and matronS having charge of inmates
of institutions and hospitals, janitors,
inspectors of milk, sanitary inspectors,
firemen, attendants in prisons for wom-
en-, in houses of refuge, in state hos
pitfalls for the blind, in reformatories,
in state industrial schools, institutions
for the feble-minded, etc.
Says the report: Can we tolerate
the thought of unframed men and
women, of whose capacity or intelli-
gence we have made no test, filling po-
sitions dealing with problems which are
tasking the intellect or genius of our
best thinkers? In these departments
of great moral evolution there are no
places to be filled by the untried and
unskilled;. each is a part of the whole.
Civil service reform is part of the
large endeavor to escape from the do
minion of partisan politics, an integral
part of the independent movement to
raise the standard of moral living. That
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shown by the fact that in some of the
state declarations civil service reform
work Is given to the philanthropic COM
mittee, or the legislative committee, or
the educational committee. Georgia has
just given it to the social service COM
mittee, and California to the one on
civics."
The seventh annual meeting Of the
Washington State Federation, held at
Everett last week.. was the occasion of
great show of hospitality on the part
of the citizens of the town. The fedora
ton colorS, green and white, were seen
In all the shop windows, and the fed
GRAFTON emblem, the clover leaf, was
conspicuous in the decorations all over
the city. Eleven clubs have joined the
Washington federation during the past
year. Several of the clubs in the fed
GRAFTON have established small libra
ries, and one, at Walla Walla, has be-
gun a manual training school, The for
estry committee is about to issue a Sc
ries of educational leaflets, enlighten-
ment on forest preservation being sad.
ly needed in some parts of the state.
The club women of Battle Creek,
Mich, have established a rest room for
working women, where warm meal is
provided for a small sum. The room is
attractively furnished with books, mag
aZlnes and papers on the reading tae
bles, growing plants and pictures.
The committee for the convention of
the National Educational association, to
be held in Boston this week, has asked
the assistance of the club women of
the city in entertaining the visiting
members. Nine chairmen have been
appointed by the state federation, and
one of these will be in attendance at
each of the state headquarters at the
different hotels. The New England
Women's Press association will be the
hostess club. The state suite at one of
the largest hotels has been assigned as
headquarters, and members of the
Press association will preside there
during the convention. Tea will be
served every day from 4 until 6.
Miss Ellen M. Stone has been lectur-
ing on her captivity among the Mace
DOMAIN brigands before the California
clubs.
Mrs. George Law Smith, president of
the California club, the largest and
most influential club in San Francisco,
has introduced an innovation in the
form of monthly reception at her
home, in order that the members of the
club may become acquainted with each
other.
The club women of Petaluma, CAL.
it is reported, have succeeded in trans
forming their town from one of the
most unattractive places in the state to
one OF the most beautiful. Two pieces
Of property had been reserved by the
city for parks, but nothing had ever
been done with them save planting a
few trees, and the parks had become
public dumping grounds. The club
women raised fund, and with it hired
men to cart away the rubbish, grub up
the stumps and sod the ground with
blue grass BY this time the public
was interested. contributions poured
In, and the parks were speedily made
into beauty spots. The club women
then turned their attention to the rest
of the city, streets, school houses,
) oi uo, OpCH spaces ana fCeIIRt0rleS, with
gratifying results. They are now Civ
ing information as to how they did 1t
to the clubs of other cities and towns
In their own and neighboring states.
The arts and crafts committee of the
Massachusetts Federation is much
pleased with the result of its propa-
ganda in the various clubs of the state.
many of which are preparing to hold
arts and crafts exhibitions in the COM
ing autumn, or else to devote an after
noon to an arts and crafts lecture. The
federation committee is seriously dis
cussing plan for a travelling arts and
crafts exhibit, which shall deal entirely
with the handiWork of women This
Will be sent to the country towns for
the benefit of women who cannot leave
their homes. yet who ardently desire to
earn money. The increased treasury of
the federation which the larger tax
upon the individual clubs will bring
about will enable the federation to
carry out this project.
A pretty fete was given by the Chi
cago branch of the Woman's Auxil-
larry of the Outdoor Art Association.
1t was called floral euchre; the
guests wore lowered gowns and flow
ers in their hair. The refreshments
were in flower forms and the euchre
prizes were flowers. The fete was for
the benefit of the fund to be devoted
to autumn planting in the public
school yards.