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Show .-- V' X , THE REVI EW Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs, $1.00 VOL. ZFZEHB PBIOE FIVE YEAB. CIEIETTS. SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 21, 1898. III. INSTITUTE WOMENS Op YONEllS. The Women's Institute of Yonkers, N. Y., is the result of a continuous growth and natural development. It was first the Yonkers Free Circulating Women, Library for and as such was founded in May, 1880, under the patronage of a numwomen, chief ber of among them being Miss Butler and her sister, Miss Harriet Butler, the daughters of William Allen Butler. In addition to a library reading room, it speedily became a sort of informal Self-Supportin- g well-know- n intelligence office. Women who found their way there for books soon discovered that besides books they received sympathy and helpful advice and aid. Out of this interest grew presently a employment bureau, and by easy steps a woman's exchange. Combining these and other interests, in 1883, the society was definitely organized Classes in and later incorporated. cookery, sewing, dressmaking, and physical training were formed as the need manifested itself. After an existence of nearly a dozen years it became very apparent that still wider usefulness was possible with greater facilities, and plans for a bui'ding to be devoted exclusively to the work were discussed. The effort culminated in the opening, in April, 1893, of the institute building on Palisade Avenue. This is a substantial brick structure fifty feet in width full-fledg- GREAT SIX ed and tive exterior, and fitted throughout with a view to securing a maximum of facilities for the work. The first floor contains, besides a store to be rented as a source of income, ample accommodations for the woman's exchange, a library and reading room, reception parlor, and offices. The second floor is mainly occupied by the Institute Hall, extending the entire depth of the building, for lectures, calisthenic exercises, and choral classes. On the third floor s for the various are branches of instruction, together with a large and thoroughly equipped cookIn the basement are ing class-roolabatories and baths,, a laundry, and janitors quarters. At the time the building was erected the name of the institution was changed by a court order to the Woman's Institute of class-room- m. Yonkers." The object of the institute, as stated in one of its is to promote by-law- s, the welfare of women, particularly those dependent on their own efforts for support, by cultivating a spirit of on the fellowship and basis of a high moral and religious standard, without sectarian distinction by providing a free circulating library and reading-rooand classes for instruction and other means of improvement, recreation, and benefit." This object has been sustained and accomplished in an unusual degree. The position of the institute in Yonkers is a unique one. It is the one co-operati- m DATS Llpman & Nad el's Old Store, Near 2nd So. & Main St feet in depth, of attrac- sixty-fiv- e on NO. 20. place in the city where the women of the leisure class and the women meet in friendly self-supporti- ng co-operati- The Choral Society, for ex- ample, counts among its members those who come in carriages from homes of affluence and those who walk from tenements. At the Yonkers Institute, there is no mistaking the cordial feeling towards one another of the classes who enjoy its benefits. Returning to the work of the institute, one of its most interesting benefits is that represented in the Woman's Institute Club. This is comwomen over posed of fourteen years of age and has a membership of over two hundred. The annual dues of the club are one dollar, and its members are entitled to admission to the club classes of instruction, lectures, and entertainments at club rates. A comfortable luncheon at a nominal cost is served daily in the building, and is well patronized by the working women of the vicinity. A kindergarten on the third floor is conducted with the cooperation of the Board of Education, that body paying for the teacher and the cost of materials, and the institute furnishing The children are from the room. its immediate neighborhood, and the sight of their bright, interested faces sitting around their teacher at the low self-supporti- ng table is sufficient to make a visitor believe that if the institute harbored only these little ones, it would do a great service. A mother's club, the childrens provident fund, that coaxes ftUSLffl UADERWEAR OUR NEifli STORE. SALE New York Cash Store. |