, was started several
years ago as a department of the Woman's Club. Its membership includes
girls in the grade below the high school and the girls who have left
school and have not gone to college or into business. The attendance has
grown so that one winter there was only one meeting when the number did
not reach a hundred.

The meetings are held every Monday afternoon at three-thirty and some
well-known speaker gives a short talk. Sometimes a musical is given.
After the lecture there is dancing for a half hour and light
refreshments are served by the girls.

The club has two unique features: first, it has no officers, but is
managed by a committee of five ladies, all mothers of high school
students. The girls are willing to help at all times, but those who know
girls realize that most clubs are "officered" to death. Another unique
feature is that there are no dues. There are many minor expenses, such
as printing and traveling expenses of the guests, and the first three
years the Woman's Club met these, but later the Girls' Club became
self-supporting. One afternoon entertainment was given for the children
and one evening entertainment for the "grown-ups," making enough to pay
all the yearly expenses and present the Woman's Club twenty-five
dollars as a gift for their building fund.

The club now has started a prize competition in bread-, cake- and
dressmaking, offering a first prize of five dollars and a second prize
of two dollars and fifty cents.

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A club that is doing practical work is following this varied program:

_Roll call_: Kitchen appliances and conveniences.

_Paper_: Household accounts. Are they essential?

_Paper_: System in household work, and economy of time.

_Demonstration_: Sandwiches and canapes.

_Roll call_: Helpful suggestions for housework.

_Paper_: Fireless cookers and their usefulness.

_Demonstration_: The fireless cooker.

_Roll call_: Waste; what is it?

_Paper_: The household waste.

_Paper_: Fuel and fuel economy.

_Demonstration_: Paper-bag cookery.

_Roll call_: Emergency luncheon menus.

_Paper_: Modern problems in the home. The servant problem.

_Paper_: The seamstress problem.

_Paper_: The nurse, or the hospital?

_Paper_: The guest.

_Demonstration_: How to shape croquettes and seal molds.

_Roll call_: Supper ideas.

_Paper_: A balanced dietary.

_Paper_: Suitable combinations of foods.

_Paper_: Food va