Arizona republican., 1906-02-01
WORK OF THE CLUBS
 FOR THE HOUSEHOLD
Some Suggestions for Reforms in
 Housekeeping.

The following items Of news of wo- mems clubs in the east, selected from the Club Bulletin, will be of interest to local club women. The report of tn. committee on civil service reform, pre- scented at the last October meeting or the New York state federation, was the last work of Mrs. Charles Russell Low ell. whose death occurred two weeks previous. She says in part:
 Your committee on civil service re- form has continued to give especial at tention to the investigation of the op eration of the reform law in the public institutions of New York state. The visits we have made have been noi only interesting and instructive in the view they have given of actual admin istrative methods, but suggestive of important lines of new work that may be profitably taken up.
 "No great political reform wrought in America represents the triumph of public opinion @ does this. Its exten> sion must depend on the same force, and there are branches of high import ance in both state and nation, to which it does not yet apply. We should help by every means within our power, and particularly through education, to create a public opinion so much stronger that the principle will be es- tablished in every place in which il does not now prevail"
 Mrs. Sara Tyson Rorer, well knowh the length and breadth of the land aA an authority on cooking, startled the members of the Evanston WomenA Club with a sharp criticism on the modern home. Her recipes for the i'm, provement of a home will be no less interesting to women than are her fla nous recipes for various delicacieA- Some of the points she covered in Ev. anston were:
 American women are growing IesA practical. The homes are slowly and surely slipping out of their hands. A a class, they are not progressive They are constantly looking backward Housekeeping has improved but little in the last generation.
 Do away with house -cleanine
 Abolish fancy cooking in the home.
 Do not make elaborate preparations for company.
 Give the servant girl regular hours and pay her for overtime.
 Do not be fauIt-finding with the do nestle, but be firm
 We should simplify housekeeping. ] Leave fancy cooking to the hotels ana restaurants. Never have at your dinner more than five courses.
 Here is the ideal dinner for every day in the week which Mrs. Rorer recom- mended:
 Soup (hot clear, palatabIe.) Dainty meat with two vegetables Gone starch, the other green) Salad dressing the kind that children can digest.) Simple dessert. Coffee.
 Mrs. Rorer is very hopeful that the day will come when the greatest guest 1 will be satisfied with the simplest of . meal.
 The Improvement Association of Honesdale, Pa, has for it's motto, Let , us all work together" and. judging by results, lives up to it beautifully. ! Miss Peterson, the enthusiastic presi- | dent of the association. says that their | work is nob!y abetted by the town 1 council.
 Association work once well begun is : really the most contagious thing in the world. Like a freshly painted house in . a neighborhood, it sets everybody to ! planning improvements on his own property. No task is too great for | these associations to undertake" ." writes . one admirer of the HonesdaIe society. | They will direct the digging of any thing from a sewer to a flower bed. ! They order down your front fences. and 1 order up electric lights with equal sang froid. Water flows at their command. i They offer prizes for the prettiest back | yard and the neatest alley. Tradesmen ! are taught that sidewalks are not the place to store empty boxes nor to ex- l pose foOdstuffs to the contagion of dusty streets. Owners of vacant lots are compelled to keep sidewalks repair | ed and weeds down, and these societies | consider the planting of trees and the | making of flower beds in waste places | their pleasantest privileges" And to do | this requires not so much money as or ganization, determination and common | sense.
 Almost every state in the Union has | achieved such notable success in sonA | direction during the past year as to en- | title it to honorable mention among the | great family of cOmmonweaIths which | are striving in some similar or related enterprise.
 Among all such achievements we can think of none more worthy of not. than the forestry work of the state of Pennsylvania, and, as usual. the resuh is partly secured through the co-opera, tion of women. Miss Mira Lloyd Dock | member of the commission, sends u1 a copy oi the annual report of the de partment of forestry of that state for the year 1903 and 1904. one of the most interesting public documents which has appeared in many day. We can only say now that Pennsylvania probably mas the finest system of forest reserves of any state in the country The area of forest actually possessed by the state now amounts to total of over half a million acres, all of them now unde the direction of a commission which iA carrying on a scientific system of forest administration. Tn proportion to funds expended we believe that these results are the best to be found in the United States, as they probably are. irrespec- tive of cost. Pennsylvania certainly has every reason to be proud of the surpl.is-