sures law.

It has written to the Secretary of Agriculture for valuable bulletins on
household economics, to be distributed among the women of the state.

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A club in Illinois which has addresses before it made by "ministers,
doctors and school superintendents," as well as papers by members, has
studied these topics:

Pure Food; Juvenile Courts; Industrial Homes; The School as a Home; The
Home as a School-Maker; Books by Age and Temperament; The Psychology of
Success and Failure; Environments: natural, civic, esthetic and ethical;
The Psychology of Occupation and Dress; Playgrounds, Games and
Systematic Recreations; Woman's Place in Civic Improvement; The
Conservation of Health; and, What the People Have a Right to Expect of
the High School. Other clubs will find these may easily be expanded into
many interesting sub-topics, and many of them may be used as suggestions
for practical work in the home town or city of the club.

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A Kentucky woman's club, meeting fortnightly all the year round, has for
its current subject Rome and Italy. The meetings open with a roll call,
followed by from two to four papers, sometimes varied with readings,
music and discussions. For the responses at the roll call such themes
are suggested as: Something about Italy; An ancient Roman and something
about him; Quotations from Shakespeare's "Coriolanus"; Something About
statuary you have seen; Quotations from Marcus Aurelius; Quotations from
or about Petrarch; Quotations from "Romola."

The themes for papers are; Italy in Roman Times; Legends; The Eternal
City; The Romans; The Republic; Early Literature; Early Art;
Michelangelo; Italian Opera; Statesmen; Master Minds; Philosophy;
Naples; Growth of Ecclesiastical Power; Dante; Humanism; Italian Art;
Italian Musicians; The Renaissance; 1492 and Its Triumph; A Battlefield
for Aliens (modern Italy, 1530-1796); Patriots; Sicily; Modern Romans.
One meeting is given to an annual reception.

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A club of three hundred members in the East is divided into standing
committees, each member being on as many as she chooses. They are:
Literature, music and drama, art, science, sociology, home and social
relations, education, and hospitality.

One year this program was presented:

_Education_. Address: The function of story-telling in modern education,
with illustrative stories.