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acter building of its host OF working
boys and girls by means of social cen
ter in the form of school building open
evenings.
Many of the 1900 people who took
advantage of this project. conducted by
trained workers during last winter. join
ed the various classes for dancing, gyIn-
nastics, games. chorus singing, plays.
housekeeping or cooking. Others prefer
red to be entertained and instructed
through the library. moving pictures.
stereopticon lectures or useful talks.
either in Yiddish or English.
The gratifying result of such work in
many large cities is proving to school
boards and municipal authorities that
more extensive work should be carried on
in the schoolhouse than can possibly be
accomplished between the hours of 9 and
=. In North Carolina the Junior League,
with its fifty branches. including about
500 boys and girls, assists in the civic
work of the Woman's Club. The New
Jersey Junior Civic League is taught by
the women's clubs to assume certain pub
lie duties in protecting the shrubs and
trees OF the cities
In Michigan the children have been or
ganiZed to study birds. build houses for
them and give them protection. This in
direct step to help the farmer insures
him the aid of thousands Of feathered
friends who will devour the insects each
year before they damage his crops The
penny lunch system introduced in New
York city by the womens clubs is con-
sidered good step. Women are re-
sponsible for the $500. 900 placed in saw
ings banks last year by the children of
Massachusetts. In Virginia some of the
best work among the clubs has been the
Encouragement given to school fairs in
rural districts.
The Roanoke City Betterment Club has
succeeded in procuring a juvenile court
for youthful offenders and the appoint
ment of police matron to care for the
girls and women who may be arrested.
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Grafton that city after city is erecting
sanitary drinking fountains. The ex-
pense of this new style drinking device
has been paid in many cases by Wom-
ems clubs in order that the school chill
dren might be protected from the dis
eases caused by the use OF the old
free for-all dipper. Efforts to educate
the rising generation against the con-
tagion of tuberculosis have also been
made through clinics and by means of
lectures, and medical inspectors have
been secured in many public schools.
Among the clubs that have provided
libraries in their communities, the splen-
did work OF erecting a ten-thousandd dol
lar building and equipping il with 1000
volumes is credited to the Woman's
Board of Trade of Santa Fe, y. NJ
This organization of less than fifty men,
hers paid the expenses of this project
from funds raised largely through mid
summer fetes given on the plaza.
The story Of starting libraries might be
told Of many clubs. especially in Cali
fornia, Idaho. Nebraska and Wisconsin,
While still other organizations supple
mented such efforts by founding travelling
libraries that circulate through the state
all the time In Colorado this feature of
education affords the citizens the pleasure
of enjoying the reading matter in 300
boxes of books that journey from place
to place.
Arizona clubs are united in their at
tempts to provide scholarships at the Uni
versity of Arizona to many of the girls
in their state. showing unusual aptitude
and application I'm their studies. The
Monday Club of Prescott equipped and
maintained a manual training school until
the work was included in the public
school course of Study Over hundred
girls in Oakland. Cal. have been taught
sewing and cooking in such a practical
way that they have become wage earners.
The Woman's Club of Athens, Ga, re-
Gently contributed $1,000 for educational
extension among the people of its noun
tains and for social welfare work in the
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The Main Question.

<<I PIERPONT MORGAN said a
y clergyman. hated the dissension
that sometimes springs up between
high church and low. Apropos OF all
such religious dissension, he used to
tell story about a wise old colored
man. Calhoun Clay.
"Cal, a gentleman once inquired.
what denomination do you belong to?
] think l see you sometimes making
for the chapel, but don't you think
you'd do better to come to u.s.?
".Bress yo' heart. sonny. chuckled
old Calhoun Clay. hits dis-a-w way.
Oars free roads leadin' from here to
Nola Chucky. Oars a straight road,
but hits billy; and dar's a level road
to de right. and dar's level road to
de left. But when All goes to Nola
Chucky wifi load o grain. do you
think they asks me. Uncle Cal. what
road you come by?" No sab! What they
asks is. Uncle. is yoh wheat good?""
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practical engineers about the city to
inspect furnaces and instruct stokers.
To supplement these efforts smoke
consumers were officially required. and
the newspapers aided the good fight by
bringing the subject before the public.
In every locality women's clubs have
waged war on the fly, and have de-
manded that the merchants screen the
meats. In western city the club
women sent hundreds of letters to
grocers asking for their cooperation
in this work. If the merchant com
piled with the request. well and good
If not. he changed his mind later when
he saw the rating which inspector
had given him posted in conspicuous
place. After 4 short time meats were
covered with glass. fruits were screen
ed and porcelain boxes We're provided
by the bakers who left early morn
ing supplies of bread.
In Westport. Conn, the need for paved
streets was so important that the Wom-
ems Town Improvement Association
found it necessary to lay 1000 feet of
sidewalk All through that state civic
clubs are improving cities or villages,
and in many localities desoate old GEM
eteries have been changed to we'll kept
cities of the dead.
Throughout the entire nation neglected
city lots are being transformed into parks
and gardens and acres of young trees
ere being planted annually. Not long ago
the WomenS Club of Dubuque, Iowa,
purchased an unsightly piece of city
property and transformed 1t into gar
den spot. In Roseville, Cal. the Wom-
ems Improvement Club became a depart
ment of forestry by setting out hundreds
of trees in city streets.
In Nowata, Okla. the women secured
a new park where they planted a thou
sand trees. The Civic Council women of
Shawnee, not far from Nowata. beauti-
fed one of their parks to such an ex
tent that the sunken gardens and elab
crate settings showed plainly that a
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wagon. never Jolt your minnows-the con-
cussion kills them.
Now we are ready for the sport. Set
your bucket of bait in the edge of the
water. take out one of the tiny fish. i'm
pale him by some non-sensitive cartilage,
lip preferred-or probably the back fin
pull him away from your float about
eighteen inches. be sneak for once.
and go softly up to that old stump lean
ing out over the bend of the stream. and
gently drop your bait near the edge OF
the weeds floating upon it. No, don't
chug the line in as If it fell from the
clouds. Talk low, if you mustard think
all the time.
AS 1 live-the cork hobs, No, you are
not holding a hawser-you do not pull
that kind in hand-over-hand. You have a
reel for your needs, but you don't need it
yet. Neither do you, axe Moses. cast
your rod upon the ground. but put its
tip up until ii takes the strain off your
slender line.
Did you ever hear reel sing song
before? What. YOU didn't know it was Il
musical instrument? Well it is-that is,
when your ear is trained properly.
Just look at the curve of that rod tip.
Loose your reel again. Now, just suppos-
ing. for old times sake, had allowed
you to come out here and cut one of
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provoke the ire of the pcsslnist, Uncle
Sam had stocked the little stream with
the very best of game fish. eating fish
and fish that man would surely enjoy
hooking at the end of his line. Our JOY
knew no bounds.
Thirty full long years had passed, and
yet we found the shade of the giant syca
more and the same mournful calls of an
entirely different family of doves eau
tioning their mates. Yes. but it was diff
ferent fishing. Never mind the grubbinS
hoe Just now. We were prepared TO fish
according to modern ideas, with rubber
boots, a minnow net, plenty of No. >
hooks, several lengths of good linen line.
a fair reel some smells. long, sincwy, wa
ter-coored. threadlike stuff made by
pulling ripe silkworm in two till he
draws out like girls chewing gum:
some good floats of course, a minnow
bucket and rod.
No. il IS not good plan to cut a hazel
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task at office. store or factory neither
John nor Josephine wants to spend every
evening IN their own homes, which are
often dismal and poverty stricken.
Naturally they seek such recrcations as
their slender purses allow. and at that
point of reasoning there is a pause.
Woman's clubs have realized that spare
time is the time TO implant ideas and TO
establish standards of right and wrong
in the mind of the child or youth. The
Womans Aid. with it's 1000 members, in
Chicago endeavored to help in the char
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AS women always have the interests
of the child foremost in their hearts.
they not only mother their own little
ones but they make it their business
to help care for the citys children.
Perhaps the little ones of Mrs. Every
mothers household have a beautiful
playground. That does not prevent
Mrs. Everymother from interesting
herself in the rights of the children
living around the market. The little
ones in that congested part Of the city
must play in the street, lodging street
cars. automobiles and delivery wagons,
in order to get the sunshine nature in
tended them to have. With this rea-
liZation came the nation wide demand
for supervised Fairgrounds and Wom-
ans clubs have done much for this
cause. Questions of great Importance
to the village are not always appre-
ciated by the large city.
While Washington has an oversupply
of we'll trained teachers waiting to be
appointed to schools. the education OF
children in rural istrictS is suffering
for the lack of such instructors. In
New Hampshire the State Federation
of Womens Clubs is meeting this diff
ficulty by a combined effort to make 1T
possible each year to send four girls
to some normal school college.
where they receive preparation for
work as teachers.
The young women helped in this way
are not asked to reimburse the fedora
ton. except in the way of promising
to serve as instructors in rural schools
for many years as they have been
benefited by the clubs. This provision
is expected to increase the standard of
education in country towns.
The fight against the public drink
ing cup has been waged vigorously
by various organizations of the fed
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such good results that antagonism to this
field of work for women has disappeared.
Community interests have asserted
themselves far and wide through wom-
ems clubs that have worked for cleaner
cities, the welfare of the child etc.
Sometimes a club has accomplished its
purpose by pushing button which
started city authorities to work. but in
either case the women actually perform
ed the task themselves. The women in
West Orange. n. j., decided to clean up
their city and so chose a school holiday
for the work in order to have the help
of their children. So much rubbish was
collected that the city authorities fur
nished an extra supply of trash carts to
carry it away.
* K
In Missouri town the women We're
so anxious to clean up the city that
they offered 10 cents a hundred for
old cans. The latter were industri
ously collected, purchased and hauled
away. In neighboring city the
women procured a sprinkling cart to
help in their crusade against the dirty
streets and alleys. In Kirksville. Mo-.
the Civic League of Sojourners Undue
ed the merchants to intrust the street
cleaning to them. With the 5000
given them for this work they not
only paid their running expenses, but
bought secondhand street sweeper
and many new metal trash cans. At
the end of a year their work has been
done so we'll that the women have
been persuaded to superintend the
street cleaning for another year
The smoke nuisance has also at
tracted the attention of these munich
pal housekeepers. who have labored to
protect the public and preserve clean
illness throughout the larger cities. The
CRIME of the soft coal smoke Of Salt
Lake City was such trial to the
residents that the Women's clubs join
ed forces with the Commercial Club in
influencing the city council to send
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the disturbance of the air strikes the
water and may really hurt him. For in
stance. you do not always shoot into a
fish when you slay him with a gun, and
when we We're boys we knew that a blow
on the ice just above the fish was fully
enough to kill him.
Thunder and heavy cannonading have
sometimes killed fish. but we do not take
ours in that manner The art and true
sympathy Of fishing demands a modern
steel pole. Dynamite-and precaution-
for the novice in fishing. and even
these do not sustain him long.
Now we cast about in the shadows for
minnows, sinners and clubs, for these
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ing purposes. But these no longer at
tract YOU, for art and skill-the pitch OF
cunning against cunnpg-the reward Or
victor after fight will cause YOU to
abandon forever tile anglcworm aud the
fishing pole and stay with the bali
But YOU surely must not get the idea
that all other fish are unworthy of pUr-
suit. And now that you are crank on
fishing you will he going out some more
with all the para phernala noted and
much additional membranes aud anon
You will wake up to the realization that
any one can deceive fish with 4 flsh-in
short make d cannibal of him. or at least
Join him i'm masnfying his propenstics.
But some day another fellow will SNOW
Won that the true art consists in 50 con-
structing an artificial lure-uot a tin fish
or bronze frog-that a something which
resembles the real lure. which brings his
baitship to the surface or causes him 70
curve in the air in graceful leaps.
Man has developed few arts OF dcccr-
ton beyond the artificial ny. and he and
his finny prey barter skill for skill upon
that mart That the bass and other game
fish have a well-developed color sense is
shown by their own beauty. If We
furnished with no other evidence. but
any one who has pursued bass. trout, etc.
with artificial insect lures realizes sud
, denly that the fish has many different
conceptions about matching his complex
ion as the average Washington girl
The wind in this direction may be
certain lure. claim some fishermen or
a few clouds crossing the sun may bs
another Today brown hackle" kills,
tomorrow il is a professor" and on
until there is no way of knowing which
way to turn. Then comes the debate.
but
The evening shadows fall again, just
as they did when we twisted our cotton
lines about the hickory poles. We are
boys again. The dank and deep woods
are all about us. the doves call across
the water and the lights IL tranquility
CLEAN through the shadows. We are at
peace-having written genuine fish
story without even. mentioning the naIns
of the noblest angler of them all, Izaak
Walton.
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espoused by women's clubs. with the re-
suit that the Weeks law was aided in
passage through their effort. BY this
provision forest reservations in the
southern Appalachian and White noun
tain districts have been acquired by the
government and before long several hun
dred thousand acres of splendid forest
land will thus be brought under the pro-
lection Of Uncle Sam Mrs. Lowell White
a national chairman of forestry, has
gained national reputation for her sue
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always a fisherman hut If a man go
forth only for tho dentzens of the deep.
he might as we'll take "A crisp new dollar
from his pocket and go to market. There
is something in the reaWakening of the
year something understandable in the air
Of springtime a new absorption of the
iuvenescence of the tender leaf and the
grooming grass spear. that makes fish
ing what it is. and We should know
for we have fished from Hudson bay to
Key West from the Catalina Islands TO
Bermuda.
We have lain sprawled on the heaving
deck Of catooat and watched our line
drift with the green waters of the gulf
stream. and we know there is more than
tshy odor and a suffering of lard in
the catching of fish. We have been up
set from our canoe into the ice-cold
waters of Lake Minnecouchic by gigantic
salmon. and We know that angling is not
paStme for thin-chcsted youths and
tmid maidens.
There is getting around the fact
that sentiment PLAYS an important part
in the days catch. When we feel that
the pressure of life has dried up all our
present stock. We take up our rod, cast a
careful eye over the fly box. pack the
suit case and hie-ishermen always The
and .'lie'-ourselves where the nocks of
Young anemones are dancing round the
budding trees. There is something in
the very air of sprin2time that expands
the breast of the natural-born fisherman
the unintelligble longing for the freedom
OF a river bank. where the doves and
their long-drawn-out moaning add soil
tude TO surroundings
The ghost OF quondam childish enjoy
ment Is revived. and we are once more
on our way To the stream where we were
boys together.
Our town-and We shall call her Tran
quillity-waS born just as the Indians
were being crowded farther westward
and our grandfathers. with their usual
foresight. built their cabins on the bluff
which overlooked rather sudden turn
Of the river. So, as our town grew we
had the river near us. but the Wabash
was never much of river-except for
fishing. The river was our picnic ground.
and we became skilled through much
practice in the delicate art of catching
fish, an art that never comes to some
men who have really loved the sport. {.
In those days We did not go about the
process of catching fish as We do today.
We did not know of ''minnies" as bait
and "fshworms'' seemed to fill every
want of hungry nibblers. And so as the
day dawned clear we were up and away
We trod the cinders of the railroad tracks
with our bare and calloused feet, the
spring sun already scorching our backs.
and we climbed through the tangle of
hazel bushes to the rivers bank. Il was
the day of all days, a day for fish to bite
and day of freedom for boyhood.
Quickly we UNFINISHED the lines from the
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M EXITING of the Council
AvA to Be Held in Wash
ington This Week-Will At
tract Delegates From All
Over the Country-Inhuences
of Clubs in Social and Moral
Uplift-The First Womens
Clubs in Amer a First
Impetus Given the Civic
Club Idea-Federation Was
Arranged About Twenty
three Years Ago-The First
Culture Clubs" - Various
Interests That Have Been
Taken Up By the Women
Throughout the Country.
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throughout the world. The million wom-
en- represented by the name General Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs are organized
into thousands of clubs. either local or
state organizations or clubs directly af-
fliated with the General Federation.
Membo rship in some of these branches is
limited to as low as twenty-five. while
other clubs count the names on their rolls
by the hundred for such memberships
exceed the thousand mark
Today there is scarcely any movement
for the betterment of living conditions
or for the social and moral uplift of the
american people in which the women are
not applying most Jealous energy. Every
where they are becoming municipal
housekeepers who aid the city fathers
by pointing out to them ways in which
the homes and lives of the people may
he protected and frightened. In many
cases the actual burden of expense OF
civic Improvement has been borne by
these women's clubs but their aim has
always been TO induce the city councils
and municipal governments to take such
works under their own supervision after
the projects have been proved worthy.
=
4 change has certainly come about
since the DAYS when the most prominent
city fathers We're the pilgrim fathers. 1t
is difficult to imagine mild Priscilla Alden
AT the head of a little band of hooded
and kerchiefed women journeying to Gov.
Bradford to insist or even suggest that
a slight change be made in the manage
ment of the colony. If such an interior
ence had been attempted ii is safe to say
that Ii would not have been repeated.
Those We're the days when housewives
rose early and worked late to finish the
duties OF their own household Conse-
1uently they had no time to realize such
responsibilities as fall to the lot of the
modern woman. VINO is enabled to
broaden her field of work because she is
not compelled to spin. weave make soap.
dip candles. carry water or patch quilts.
1t is said that the earliest woman's club
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md little frogs are about the best we are
able to do in the way of live bait for
this season. though dozens of other
things. from breakfast bacon to a brass
spoon. may enter into the technique of
the specialist. And now we find why We
brought high rubber boots. Half the fun
of fishing, according to most fishermen.
is the catching of bait. We have known
the chase of red-legged sraSshopper in
the Adirondacks more exciting than really
hooking the spotted trout. But when the
hopper was in hand. the trout natur-
ally followed.
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HE meeting of the
Council of the Gen
eral Federation of
W onen'S Clu b 6.
which is to be held
III " ashingtou this
week. will attract
delegates from all
over the country.
as I u G women s
club movement has
grown so bro a d
that il has spread