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Show the review, strong numerically or has become the popular fad. Many a small, obscure club may be doing more, proportionately, for the enfoldment and culturing of the nobler attributes of mind and heart. The opportunities of our larger clubs for doing more work efficient and farther-reachin- g is, ot course, much better. There is, however, great danger of losing sight of the grand ultimate end in the ready attainment of the more immedeiate one. As women we should zealously guard our club life against the evils which do so easily beset the way of others; for is it not true that mens clubs too often degenerate into mere places of entertainment, where meals are served at all hours of the day or night a place for jolly good times, but nothing more. Right here lie rich harvests of opportunity for the womens club becoming an example of nobler things. Our civilization is fast becoming walled s of materialism, around by and it remains for women to break these barriers to our higher intellectual and spiritual development to idealize, universalize and fraternalize our culture. There is no place where this work can be so effectively done as in the womens club. So may it grow from more to more in the vastness of knowledge, the sublimity of truth, the beauty and fraternity of love. earth-work- Massachusetts State Fed elation. The Massachusetts State Federation convention held January 22 was unusually well attended. The Bijou Opera House of Boston was jammed, and the Woman's Journal says that fully 500 people were unable to gain admittance. Among the subjects presented were Moral Side of Industrial Training, Patriotism in the Young, and Mrs. Henrotin spoke of the evolution of the club spirit. Prof. William G. Ward, of Syracuse, made an earnest plea for manual training: It has been proved that manual training has done more to reform boys in the penitentiaries than any other agency. The authorities find they when they have reformed one-hahave been taught to use their hands. I would not give one form of training for the rich and another for the poor. I would have both rich and poor trained in the same class. We must teach all the majesty of tools. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer urged manual training for girls. She said in part: The girls of today are different from those of days gone by. They must take up the tremendous problems left unsolved by us. They must live in a different world altogether, facing all the difficulties of our modern life. These girls are to live in cities, to confront great unsolved questions. They are not to live in the simple society in which you and I were raised. Who will teach the girls their whole duty? I beg of you to give intellectual education to the girl in the alley as to the girl on Beacon lf Hill. We are suffering in our American society because we were not taught to see, to do and to think. Shall we not give our little girls manual training, and thus teach them to see, to observe and to do accurately, before the dust of the new century is 3 political and social. Denied the suffrage, he went on to say, you are planting all ever the country little states and thus making a body politic within the greater body politic, and all rights for you must naturally follow. Be patriotic, and realize in all your domestic life what patriotism means, what its demands and commands mean in America. Young Womens League of Dayton. The Young Womens League in Dayton, O., was organized in 1895 by a few working girls as a practical help to women. Several society women became members of the board of directors, and aided the girls by their counsel. The second year the League, which had begun with fifty members, had increased to 500. It has rented a club-houswhere it has a library and reading-rooThere are classes in bookself-supporti- ng e, m. keeping, stenography, millinery, dressmaking and cooking. An annual fee of $2 gives membership, with the right to vote, while $5 gives admission to d all classes, and to a gymnasium. A lunch room is conwhere an ducted at the club-housexcellent luncheon or dinner can be had for 1 1 cents. The League has also a lunch room in the working quarter of the town, for working girls only, where a substantial luncheon is served for 10 cents. The club, which well-equippe- blown into their eyes ? Let us have manual training, that we may return to the dignity of labor. We have lost sight of that, and nothing is more dangerous to a republican form of government. We have an idea that a girl who does anything with her is and hands is not a lady. This false attitude towards labor is detrimental to is already raising money to build a the progress of our country. Abroad clubroom of its own, and many of the themselves to collect 10 girls are trained in domestic science, girls pledge even if they are to live lives of leisure. a year for this object. Woman's Consider the hundreds of young girls Journal. who go out from our schools every June single handed. Let us fit them COME TO ME for the battle of life. Then they will When in need of the VERY BEST not be forced to work in the great shops of the city for 50 cents a day. Let us give them the weapons to save TINWARE e, self-supporti- ng self-governin- g, their souls. Mr. Edwin D. Mead, in speaking on Patriotism in the Young, paid the Womens Clubs a great compliment. He said in part: The Womens Clubs are not only doing a great work for America, but a great work for womens own future, Or Tin, Copper or Sheet Metal Work of any kind. REMEMBER, the very best at Lowest Prices. A. 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