Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-23


compulsory. How to place education
of the needed kind In reach of these
100000 children and make them taKs
advantage OF 1t is one of the biggest
problems with which the women OF tho
nation are now wrestling.
The federation and its clubs have not
been idle In doing the work HAlies
nearest in educational lines. II nw-
Grafton itself maintains a scholarship
for American girls at all English uni
versity. The Michigan State Fedora
ton has q $4,000 fund for the use of
worthy girls. Texas has twenty schol-
arships, Utah two. Colorado nineteen
and Kansas eighteen, while during the
past year the New Hampshire State
Federation educated four girls and that
Of Mississippi sent eight to school.
The old theory that woman need
have no training for home life has
been swept to the wall by the club
woman of today. In Illinois, where
there was established at the state uni
versity In 1870 the first domestic sci
ence school in the world, the club
women have been active in SUCH edu-
cation. The School of Domestic Arts
and Sciences in Chicago had last year
an attendance of 100 students and
added kindergarten work and the care
of children to its curriculum. me
Women's Educational and Industrial
Union of Boston has for three years
conducted classes for saleswomen with
remarkable success. The State Fed
Grafton of Vermont clubs conducted
last year a successful arts and crafts
exhibit and through the work or CLUB
women one Massachusetts and three
North Carolina towns have revived old
hand industries and have materially
prospered.
Loving house cleaning because they
are intensely domestic, the club women
of today through the civics commits
sion of the General Federation, nave
asked for big municipal house clean
ing day that shall become national
and have already inaugurated 1t in
many cities and towns. Through this
department of civics they ask for an
intelligent and economical disposition
of garbage and refuse that would sup
ply each town with its electrical power
and incidentally bring in revenue in
stead of becoming dead expense.
They have offered Endorsement and CO.
operation to the department of agri-
culture in the pure-food movement. ana
when 100000 women back up gov
ornamental proposition like this 1t
means something.
Believing thoroughly in the need OF
open air for children, club women nave
urged cities to build parks and play
| grounds and in many instances nave
| done 1t at their own expense. In To-
ledo, Ohio, one of the club women may
be found every day in the school gar
dens taking turns with her co-workers.
The women's clubs of Columbus, Ohio,
| keep eight play grounds, and In Du-
| buoue. Iowa, they have purchased Il
bluff for a park. Keenly interested IN
the weak and oppressed they have gone
after reform in almshouse nursing, tne
State Federation of Michigan and the
Association of Nurses In that state
leading with twenty three states fol-
lowing closely on their heels.
The immigrant has come In for q
goodly share Of attention among the
Women's clubs The Woman's Munich
pal League and Welfare committee q
the National Civic Federation had Twp
laws enacted in New York last SER
tember protecting immigrant girls iron
INSCRIPTIONS ticket sellers The Edu-
cational and Industrial union OF Hs~
ton. the Research and Protective aso
citation in Philadelphia, the Womn's
Trade Union league in Chicago, and
the Council of Jewish Women are Of
fering advice and protection and felp
to the newcomers, who receive no row
eminent aid after leaving Ellis ishnd.
Education in good citizenship is offred
| TO InOuSdnUS u ucWiy aihtNN0 80 1bf-
ers through various patriotic ana qVlc
clubs composed Of women.
In the conservation of the natin's
natural resources the women's Gibbs
are lending a helping hand They Aae
their representatives at tne meetlne OF
the governors, they have their depart
ment of forestry, and In some states
have established regular classes In for-
| estry. There is no Carnegie aiming
the women, but the travelling libraries.
a score of good books in their snah
boxes, have penetrated mountain ftst-
nesses and gone to remote prairie towns
! that never would otherwise know or
bookland. Colorado alone has 5000 vol
umes always on the road, and this is
4 not much of an overestimate for tach
of the other forty-five state declarations.
\ Through the work of club women
California's missions will be preserved.
the Indian mounds of Wisconsin are
i being protected the cliff dwellings OF
i Colorado and Arizona have been placed
under national protection, the desecra-
ton Of the Palisades of tho Hudson and
the threatened destruction of Niagara
Falls have been brought before the
!. public the homes of Washington and
/ Andrew Jackson have been preserved
, and the Alamo purchased as perpet-
ual monument to Texan valor. Through
Il the Oregon women q statue has been
erected to Sacajawea, the Indian maid
4 of Lewis and Clark's expedition: the
women of Colorado have kept Judge
Lindsey in Office for the good Of the
delinquent children of the state. and
the South Carolina federation is trying
to secure a state industrial school for
boys. They are working along many
lines, some for suffrage, some for re-
i vision of state laws on various subjects,
but all with the same end: to better
the nation. They seem to have taken
! Amiel's advice: ITO be patient, SYM
pathetic, tender; to look for the bud
i ding flower and the opening heart; to
hope always"
j ICopyright, 1908, by Frederic ]. Haskin).
II Tomorrow-Saving the Babies.