Encouraging Home Industry; The Idaho
Health Bill; What the Government Is Doing for Women and Children; City
Sanitation; Market Inspection; Uniform Marriage and Divorce Laws; The
Proposed Compensation Act for Criminals; Interstate Commerce; Property
Rights of Women; Juvenile Courts; Conservation of Natural Resources;
Civic Improvements; Pure Food.

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A Vermont club which has existed for many years has in its year book a
list of all the subjects studied for the past ten. Some of these are:
Colonial America, Later American History, Short Studies on Great
Subjects, Russia and Japan.

In addition to these studies the club has had lectures on American
Indians, The Moving Picture Show, Forestry, Humane Education, Travels in
the Penal Settlements of Siberia, and The Land of Evangeline; most of
these have been illustrated. This club numbers a hundred members.

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A Western club has taken up Shakespeare in a remarkably thorough way. It
has had five plays for the year's work, and one act of each play has
been read at each meeting, followed by a paper relating to it, and a
discussion. One part of their work is this: Antony and Cleopatra--Act I,
The History of the Play and Its Setting; Act II, Paper on Egyptology;
Act III, Paper on Cleopatra and Her Influence. Other plays are studied
in the same way.

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A Georgia club gave the first half of the year to the study of
Shakespeare's women, and the latter half to this program on American
Painters: The Early Painters, to 1865; Whistler and LaFarge; Landscape
and Marines; Figures; Miniature Painters; American Illustrators; Stained
Glass Designers. A noticeable feature of the year book is the printing
at the back of an excellent bibliography, giving a list of all the books
needed in the work.

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From Ohio comes a program on Welfare Study and Vocations for Trained
Women; The Boy Problem; The Girl Problem; Local Civics; Foods; Women in
Business (three meetings); Women in Arts and Professions (three
meetings), and Handicraft (three meetings).

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An Alabama club has a year book on Spain of more than usual
attractiveness. Each topic is unusually well developed: The Land of
Spain; The Dawn of History in Spain; The Moors; The Age of Adventure;
Kings; Spain in Its Glory; The Church; Citie