Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-25
(From Saturdays Daily

The third day of the ninth an nual meeting of the Arizona Fedora
 tiOn of Women's Clubs was marked from the beginning with a spirit of enthusiasm and keenest interest, and close attention bespoke appreciation of the valuable papers presented.
 Before the United States govern ment had begun its care of public
 forests, stream and natural wonders,
 little groups and clubs of women
 were trying to safeguard the giant trees of California and other natural parks, which by their very beauty
 belonged to all the people for all
 generations.
 The Conservation Department of the Arizona Federation has perhaps
 found less to do because of the work
 of earlier clubs, most of our for
 est area being included in national
 parks and forest reserves, but the
 report of the chairman, Miss Lucy
 Ellis of Phoenix, was full of sug
 gestions for the better guarding of
 all our natural resources, and the better care and training of the children, which are the greatest asset any country has to conserve.
 The women of Arizona are fully
 awake to the value of all the nat
 ural wonders of the Territory and ready to aid in preserving them for the future. The birds, the flowers, the forests, the streams, are all within the scope of interest of the Conservation Department to he stud jed and safequarded.
 Perhaps the most appealing work of the WOmen's Clubs, the work which wins instant approval from
 men and women who do not care for the general club movement is that of the Department of Public Health and of Philanthropy, separate departments
 which are yet closely akin.
 ' In Tucson, Phoenix, Prescott and smaller places the Department of
 Health had the Red Cross Christmas ! stamps placed on sale, the money to | be used in preventing tuberculosis , or helping the work of local ehari-
 ties Prescott was found to lead the whole United States in number of 1 stamps sold, per capita, there being record of seven stamps to every person in the city. Tucson sold large numbers, as did Phoenix, and beside these sales much valuable work pro l noting public health. was done in 2 the year by all the clubs.
 : The Household Economies Depart
 ment has always been the most pop
 ular with club women and the re-
 ports from Bisbee, Phoenix, Yuma
 and elsewhere showed days given up to demonstrations of electrical cook
 ing appliances, fireless cookers, de | hydrated vegetables and fruits, which seem destined to take the place of the old time canned food
 stuffs, of ,cOOked foods and favorite , cooking recipes, of house decoration, sanitary plumbing, and all that en-
 ters into the comfort of home and welfare If the family. The Woman 's Club of Phoenix reported S6 out of ! its l6l members in the Household i Economics Department, certainly a significant record.
 [ The Department of Labor, through ] its chairman, Mrs. Cleveland of Pres ! cott, presented a most inspiring re- port, filled with wise and balanced pleas for the care of children, who might be labOrerS.
 Passing from this subject, the ques- | tiOn of a library for the Pioneers Home was fully discussed. and money ! for magazine subscriptions was ! pledged, it having developed in the
 discussion that a goodly collection of
 books was already assured from pri- vate sources.
 The obtaining of a flag to float
 over the building was also discussed
 and steps taken toward that end. Tbe Legislative Committee, through