Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-05-13

where people will have better
chance to grow physically and men,
tally better. They have performed
untold service along line of good san
itation and domestic science. read
short history of the heroic fight
The women of Rochester, Minnesota,
made against the old order of NAL.
administration Of city affairs, the
filth and dirt of the city, the unsan-
itary way in which the shopkeepers
handled foodstuffs, and il was not
until after they had an epidemic of
scarlet fever that menaced the whole
city that they succeeded in their
fight for right and cleanliness. 1t
was my privilege to visit this little
city Il few months ago. Its we'll
kept streets and the sanitary condi-
lion of the entire place is at once
impressed upon the observer, and the
city bids fair 10 become rs noted for
its beauty and cleanliness as for its
great surgeons.
II is not only along lines of beauty
and civic Improvement, but women's
efforts are reaching deeper than mere
physical bcauty-splendid work is
heing done on peace and arbitration,
education children, equal standard
of morals, home, immigration, di-
vorce. illitcracy, art and literature,
philanthropics and charities, health,
legal status of women and children.
Through the efforts of women's clubs
let us glance ut some Of the work
done in different cities.
Evanston, Illinois, they have
cleaned, appointed inspectors of gro
Gerry stores, bakeries and dairy
farms, removed suggestive postal
cards from store windows.
Bellows Falls. Vermont, women
have employed visiting nurse and
opened city hospital; gift of II
medicine chest to the High School
of Santa Clara. California; installed
sanitary drinking cups in the public
school ut Cnthhcrg, Georgia. They
furnish and support Il room in the
city hospital at Ottumwa, Iowa. 4
81. Louis club sends sick babies io
the scashorc for the heated term.
4 penny lunch has been cstab-
ishcd by the New Orleans club for
the working girl. \ Chicago club
maintains protectoratc club, which
looks after the welfare of young Ia e
dies of the city. Oakland, Caifor
MIA. has trained one hundred wage
earning girls to cook and sew.
In Portland New llamshirc, they
established schools To teach foreign
crs To read and write. In hundreds
If towns they have established and
maintain public libraries and rest
rooms. Al MADEIRA, California. they
installed street lights. Probably to
the woman's club of Las Cruces, New
Mexico. belongs the credit of being
the only organized woman'S cluh
which keeps hearse for public use
These are but a few examples of
work which organized club women
are doing. This i why woman's club
movement has come 10 be recognized
Is an important factor IA the clvi-
tzauun 81 today, prIhaps The most
important eli ANY "t the organized
societies, because of is scope of
work. \ club can accomplish for n
community what an individual never
can. Although the club woman Of
today has mounted many steps to-
ward higher and better civilization.
there are still many steps Ia climb.
e great work Ia he done.
Shall not we. the chbwomcn al
Dcmlug, get IN step with this great
march of progress! shall We not
he loyal 10 the cause! Being loyal
r,ubwuman means more than simply
responding to roll call. II means act
i've work in all subjects of import
aucc, whatever helps the individual
helps the home. whatever benefits
the home has a like influence on all
mankind.
Mary /. Wood says: The great
est ygmr of the club movement i.
the influence upon the woman her
-cli--,hc has become a better home
maker, because the domestic science
work OF the Federated Clubs has
given her new understanding of
the beauty of a well ordered home.
where the art of housekeeping in
cludr~ knowledge of food values.
chemistry. sanitation and harmony
She has become better mother. he.
cause ,hc ha> come Ia know other
mothers. She has studied child life
in IL many nhaSpS Sha has cnp,.