St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-03-07
WOMANS CLUB
MARCH MEETING
Much Business Is Tranacted
After Which Interesting
Program Is Presented

! The March meeting of the St
Johrshury Woman's Clab was held in
Pythian hall Monday afternoon at :.
O'Clock. The secretary read the re-
ports of the club meetings of january
| and February. The treasurer-s quar-
| terly statement showed n balance O.:
$121.14 on hand in tho general f.nd
Resolutions on the death of Mre
Alice Dole were read by Mrs. Annie
Currier. The work of the Red Cross
Was presented and it was voted that
Il special committee be named by the
chair to carry on Il membership cam
paign to aid the chapter which has
been formed, with Mrs Joseph Fair
banks director, and Miss Florence
Rouse. secretary, and is WORKING az
the same time and place as III War
Relief workers. The president asked
Mrs. e. ii. Gaskell Mrs. Sarah Hovey
and Mrs. Mabel Eldridge to comprise
the committee.
Endorsement of the Peace League
was deferred until more intelligence
was gained from eX-President Taft's
address. A motion to endorse tho
labor for women and children in the
state of Vermont. it being the only
New England state in which similar
action has not been taken. was car
ricd. after discussion. Mrs. Edith
Flint presented a plan approved by
the executive board, which proposes
to have afternoons of socia bility to
which groups of club members will be
to br:,
- ffcrent members Of tie club VITA
the executive board acting as host
csses. This plan, it is hoped, will be
financial aid to the treasury of tie
club. A quintet then sang Bcctho-
vcn's Mnuet and a humorous selec-
ton; the singers were Mrs. Homer
Smith, Mrs Frank Taylor. Mrs. Franz
Miner. Mrs. Alvin Flint. Mrs. George
Cary with Mrs. Homer Carpenter, ac-
cGmpanist.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, chairman of
the committee on public health and
child welfare, then presented DR.. Fan
ny Carleton, who read a splendid pa
pee. on Child Welfare She said that
the Goth century has been designated
as the child's century and gave staris-
ties showing the wisdom of this be-
.
A most interesting number of benefits
to be gained from laughter were
enumerated. Control and repression
were well contrasted and the value Of
the former brought out. DR. Garlic
ton said it should be the aim of every
youth to SO train the body machine
that it should always run we'll.
Mrs. Stanley read Il comprehensive
paper written by Herbert Hinman on
Sanitation In the Canal Zone" He
showed that while the Panama Canal
was once a pest hole, it wa3 now as
beautiful as sanitation can make it,
1t was said that the railroad in Pana-
ma cost life for every tie but con-
ditions have been improved wonderful
~ The yellow fever was traced to
infection by mosquito, also malaria to
another mosquito. Houses were flu
migated, water drained off, screens
and every device used and each dis
trict supervised. Flees are seldom
in a house they telephone for the in
spcctor, who comes and searches un-
til the offender is found.
The president reported for the
chairman of the district nurse COM
mttee, Mrs. Hattie Story, the work
now being done.
Mrs. Frank Taylor reported the
number of Red Cross seals sold and
the number of calls made by the dis
trict nurse was reported. The meet
ing was then adjourned. SO,