The Coconino sun., 1920-09-10
Literary Department of WOman's Cluh.

Literary Department of
 Woman's Club.
 The Literary department of the Woman's club held the first meeting of the club year Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Paul Coffin. This department has taken up as their work for the year the literary course as outlined in the Burton Holmes Travelog series. The sub ject presented at this first meeting was the geographical setting, man. ners and customs of South America, and was handled by Mrs. V. M.. Sliph- CT in her usual able manner. After an hour of study and com ment the hostess invited each one to "help herself" to the delicious punch which was being served in the dining room, at which invitation no one hes itated, neither did anyone overlook the accompanying dainty cakes. The members present were. Mesdames V. M. Slipher, Lampland, Walker, H. P. Nelson, Ray Babbitt, A. A. Johnston, R. E. Taylor, Henry Albers, Douglas Roome, Miss Ruth Latimer and the hostess, Mrs. Paul Coffin.
 The next meeting will be Saturday afternoon, October 2nd, at the home of Mrs. H. P. Nelson, with Miss Gracia Saunders as leader.
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 Flanigan- Boyette
 Miss Anna Mae Boyette, the pretty and talented daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. D. Boyette, of Spring Valley, was married here last week to J. c. Flani- gan, an employe of the Griffin Cattle O., a young man very we'll and fav- orably known in the western part of the county.
 The young people motored here, ac- companied by the brides two sisters, the Misses Ellie and Laura Boyette, and two brothers, Malcolmn and J. c. Boyette, and her guest, Miss Lorena Storey, of Texas. Judge J. E. Jones performed the ceremony.
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 Social Service.
 Well, we hadn't been home very long till we got on committee. Now, whether we wanted to be on or not is not the question, for one often has to make an honest confess ion and admit it is much easier to know nothing of what is going on in the town and do less. However, we were asked to meet committee at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning that expected to make short tour through the Mexican district, south of the tracks. This committee was one from the membership of the Social Service, that body of women who have accom- plished something both in word and deed. First, we talked with several members of the present city council and to a man they were in favor of bettering conditions as far as their power and jurisdiction lay. You, no doubt, will all be pleased to know the council is pushing and at this writing has already pushed, the ordinance re- quiring property owners to connect up with the sewers.
 This is where the Social Service has felt the emphasis should be put, so it was gratifying to know the city fath- CTS had been strong and long CD for it.
 Sanitary conditions have been long felt need over there and this summer perhaps more than any other has prov en something should be done. The epidemic which seemed to threaten so many this summer made every one sit up and take notice as never before for it showed that even though we wene removed in point of distance from the breeding place of flies, yet as to saf- ety, we were not so snug, for flies like nothing better than to gain en- trance to homes where little babies helplessly try to combat them.
 Do you know the statistics for Flag staff's infant mortality for the month of July and August? Nothing is quite so convincing as real figures. We'll, in the month of July there were twelve deaths, five infants dying from intestinal diseases! Back in the eastern cities, the high death rate among infants is from the terrific heat but Flagstaff claims exemption from heat waves so we must look for other causes.
 A comparison of the death rate in February of this same year shows eleven deaths, but only three of them infants, the other eight being from pneumonia and cancer, two of the three infants being premature births.
 What might one conclude from such showing? That flies have quite probably influenced this infant mortal ity.
 As we stated, our tour through the district enlightened us on many points. The plan of architecture seems peculiarly their own. A tall, slender, out-house will occupy cen- tral position in the middle of the street, while grouped back of it will be, perhaps, five houses, in one seven children, in another four, and so on; all, for convenience sake, using the centrally located out-house. Mortal ity has splendid chance in such con- ditions. And yet the striking point in the whole situation is the amount of space-the great lot of good, fresh, pure air that might be their lot if