The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-09
WOMAN'S CLUB WORK
Mrs. q. T. Green, Editor for May
A Free Magazine Stand


The club woman in Texas town of
sixteen thousand inhabitants have
for more than a year maintained a
free magazine stand in the heart OF
the business district in the following
way: The stand is placed in the lob
by of one Of the principal store
buildings; over the stand is placed a
placard reading Free Magazines
Take One" Here the club women
and their friends when they have
finished their magazines bring them
and leave them for free distribution.
The stand is looked after each
week by a different committee of
women, who exercise a certain CEN
sorship over the reading matter thus
distributed and see that there is al
ways supply on hand.
Mrs. Edith Pierce, who keeps
Philadelphia tids-because she pass
ed the competitive examination for
ty-six per cent, excelling all other
candidates, they appointed Mrs.
Pierce inspector of street cleaning;
and because the new inspector be-
lieved in doing something more effec-
tive than merely inspecting" the
highways and byways of Philadel-
phia began tidying up. Her theory
is that the best way to keep a city
clean is not to let it get dirty. So
first she carried out the plan for MAX
ing the children her aids, teaching
them not only to refrain from throw
ing fruit skins, paper and other rub
vent others from doing so. She
reached the children and awoke in
them a wholesome interest in the
city's appearance by means of ad-
distribution of simple circulars.
Then she urged clubs, neighborhood
groups and whole communities to
cooperate with her and the street
she addressed ten OF the city's lead
ing clubs for women on her chosen
theme. In the crowded poorer sec
tons she speaks from a soapbox to
corner gatherings of the house
keepers Of the neighborhood, tell
ing them, often with the aid of an
Interpreter, how to handle their
waste, and inspiring them TO do their
part in keeping their surroundings
clean and sanitary. She has found
that the Italian. Polish, and Russian
mothers whom she addresses be-
come deeply interested in municipal
house-cleaning; some OF them point
with pride" to alleys, formerly reek-
ing with filth but now clean and or
DERBY. Mrs. Pierce uses the argu-
ment that if the city's residents less
en- the burdens of the srreet-clean-
ing department, there will be more
money for new pavements and other
improvements.
LIT. Luelld Iidg carson, president
of Mills College-While western col
leges and universities are as a rule
co-educational. Mills College. near
Oakland, California. is the only col
lege on the Pacific coast exclusively
for women. Although it may fairly
date its beginnings back TO 1852,
Mills Seminary. as it was then known
was esta blished in its present beau
tiful surroundings in 1871 by Rev.
Cyrus T. Mills. who was graduated
from Williams College under Mark
Hopkins. assisted by his wife. Mrs.
Susan Lincoln Mills, who was grad
uated in 1854 from Mount Holyoke
under Mary Lyon, with whom she
remained as a teacher until 1S49.
The seminary was chartered as a col
lege in 1885. with Mrs. Mills as pres
ident. When Mrs. Mills. in 1909, af-
ter forry-four years OF continuous