The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-10-14
WOMAN'S CLUB
DEPARTMENT
Edited b, the Press
Committee of the
\Voman's Club

III III dH''I WIS 'tDii' I'.tit
womcns clubs have been quite a.
active as in other lines. They hay,
fought tuberculosis Recently the:
have centered their chief '..orts
aside from the fight for pure food
upon the better physical care 0.
school children, by means OF medica'
and dental inspection. visiting nurs-
es. school lunches, improved ventila-
ton; upon spreading knowledge OF
social hygiene, and upon rousing
public sentiment in favor of Ma
ticnal Health Bureau.
They have fought flies by distrib-
uting information about the dangers,
by getting authorities to take care o:
breeding places, and by cnlisting
school children to help they have
urged the anti-spttng crusade;
they have provided bubble fOun-
tains; they have interested physi-
clans in giving health lectures; they
have furnished health SLIPS for
school books; they have hal printed
wall cards to hang in public places:
| they have contributed to health H.
braries, founded Keep Well" clubs
in flctories, established camps and
Fairgrounds and used every possible
means to educate the public. In Tex
IS they have worked for "TOOthbrust
Brigades;" in Iowa they have estab-
l.shcd Baby Health Contests at
state fairs; in Richmond, Long Is
!; nj, they have successfully enlisted
the services Of Il bacteriologist to
clear the town Of mosquitoes.
Municipal housewives have also
become municipal mothers. The care
Of h" nation children is one of the
ntst important pieces o. work done
hy the Federation Club W0rl"u have
appointed themselves unpaid ), nool
inspectors; they have tried 10 foster
closer relations between parents and
children, to educate parents iii ths
care Of children, to rGuca," children
themselves for citizenship and to on
courage the present trend toward w.
cational education: thcf have inlcs
t;%atcd the laws that govern chill
Labor, and in several States thor
lave Influenced, and are influcncin.r
tire LEGISLATURES to introduce hoj'
conditions
On" ~ the interesting movement
W., c'iid Nelf.tr sardcnng ilas
ioo pIshel with enthusiasm by tne
Woman# tlnb Of Cincinnati the
children are taught 10 grow hov ,p.
and Vegetables Last year in on
school Garden We're raised Il dozen
kinds OF llowcrs and twice as many
kinds OF vegetables. The children
a,c also shown how to make use oi
every scrap of ground at home for
growing things. This experiment
hes proved SO successful that the
board of education in its budgc' for
this year has made provision for
continuing the work as part Of the
school system. Similar garden work
l. being carried ON by the Mo;hrrs'
ciLb in Santa Fe
school savings banks IRE another
admirable institution earnestly fos-
tered by womcn's clubs. In 1911. in |
Massachusetts alone. the childrc
are said to have saved more than
= rec hundred thousand dollars.
As with schools so it is with Il |
hrarics. Look. for example, at the
record OF the Woman's Board OF
Trade of Santa Fc. New Mexico
which numbers about thirty-ive
members, By their unaidcd effort:
tEry have huilt ana equipped a tea
lrousand-dollar library. with about
trur thousand volumes In this thcl
have IA childrcn's room with a story
telling hour for the little ones. Tho
zion Child Study club. OF Siou.
Falls. South Dakota, composed chief
~ OF mothers of public school chill
crcn. among other good things has
established children's indoor games
il its public library. In Wickcn-
III TX. Arizona. a club, even smaller.
within a year has bought a house
and lot for library and reading |
room. and has collected about seven |
hundred volumes. From Nebraska !
comes the report that about sixty |
clubs are working for a library or
have obtained one. I'm Wisconsin Il,
Federation co-operates with the UNI /
rcrSity. sending travelling libraries
cut over the State. and the work is
beginning TO be done in other States
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