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Show The club has taken an active part in town and home beatification beatifica-tion programs. For the past four years Mothers' Mo-thers' Study club has joined the gLH Clubsof Springville In entertaining the club the state at an Art Tea a ' the art exhibit in April to make this Art Tea an , :;' affair to help advertise ,' and its great art projeci ": floats: "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World, Poppies Pop-pies Bloom In Slander's Field -The Dutch Windmill "Basket of Flowers," and "Butterfly Float." - also to such measures as shall j best advance the educational, in-dustrial in-dustrial and social interests of our town and state. The objects of the club are the same today as when first organ- ; ized and these objects have been realized in the lives of its members mem-bers and in the lives of its townspeople towns-people who have contacted its members in any way. A yearly educational program has been carried out in such subjects sub-jects as home economics, home beautification, rearing of children and care of children, literature in the way of short stories, contemporary contem-porary writers, reviews of the most read novels, lives and works of Utah writers, history and customs cus-toms of the people of the important impor-tant countries of the world, etc. The club has helped in most civic projects of the city, and has put over several worthwhile projects pro-jects of its own. From 1926 to 1930 milk was supplied by the club to undernourished undernour-ished school children in the primary pri-mary grades of the public schools of Springville. When the project became too big the other clubs were invited to aid in the work which they did from 1930 to when the work was taken over by a church organization. In 1917 the Mothers' Study club placed the first seat on the city park, which was built by James Clark. In 1918 they started a project pro-ject to seat the park. They invited in-vited the other clubs to join and conjointly every home in the city was visited and enough money contributed to buy enough seats for the park. From 1914 to 1919 a lunch was served to the school children on clean-up day each spring. In 1929 it aided the other clubs in purchasing playground equipment which was placed on the city park. The play was supervised su-pervised by the club members for some time. In 1928 it presented a bust of Cyrus E. Dallin with a pedestal made by Mr. Dallin to the Springville Spring-ville Art Gallery. The club has contributed $25 to $1)0 to the art fund each year since the beginning of the yearly art exhibit. Mothers' Study club has built a float for every parade that has been shown in Springville since the club's beginning; first prizes have been won for the following Mothers' Study Club 0 By Mi's. Josie Alleman The Mothers' Study club of Springville, Utah, was organized by Mrs. Behlie of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Aird of Provo, state organizer, or-ganizer, respectively, of the Fed-ganizer, Fed-ganizer, respectfully, of the Federated Fed-erated Women's clubs of Utah, in May, 1912, with a membership of twelve. The motto of the club is, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." The objects of the club are: Acquaintance, and mutual helpfulness, help-fulness, and in general to promote interest and development in all lines pertaining to the home and to the duties of motherhood, and |