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Show HEAD OF WOMEN'S FEDERATED CLUBS r sir Mrs. Pennybacker, a picture ol whom is herewith presented, was re- - (. cently elected president of the Fedor- T ation of Women's Clubs. It Is said T to be her idea that women, whose activities are directed to affairs outside out-side their home circles, consist ol three classes: First, those who work for their daily bread; second, those who are moved to action by the economic conditions surrounding working women and political abuses which affect the general public and strike particularly hard at women and children; third, those who are Interesting themselves in public affairs af-fairs as a means of broadening their mental horizons and acquiring a more liberal knowledge of the ways of the world. ' In the first class there are in the United States six million women. Six million women are working for their bread and shelter. Their activities activ-ities are, with few exceptions, com pulsory. They work because hard practical necessity compels them. It is almost impossible to estimate the number of women in the second v class. They are in every city and village. From the richest woman in the metropolis who is using her wealth to alleviate the hardships of overbur- J dened girls to the poor woman in the small hamlet who insists that the village vil-lage constable shall keep children out of the one pool room. The third class form the majority of. the club women. There are about eight hundred thousand club members in the United States. |