At a very pleasant tiffin, given by the American Women's Club. in their rooms last Friday in honour of Mrs, E, G. Whittaker, about 50 members listened to an enthusiastic report on. the work of women's clubs in Aemrican given by the guest of the day. After a tempting luncheon had been served, the President, Mrs. J. Scott Emens, introduced Mrs.' Whittaker, the club's recording secretary, who has Just returned from a year in America, saying that although Mrs. Whittaker had been back in Shanghai only 10 days she had plunged into club activities with characteristic zeal, Mrs, Whittaker said that she brought back to the A.W.C. the greetings and good wishes of 18: Women's clubs in the United States. The energetic part which women Were taking in welfare work in the United America was to her one of the most encouraging signs of pro-serees she Had noted. As a visitor from the Far East she also noticed the ubiquitous radio, the convenient community markets which housed the produce of the world under one roof, the international alignments brought about by the Junior Red Cross, and the specialization in education. Despite economic pres. sure and the changes wrought by the war she felt that the feverish unrest so much dwelt upon wa only superficial and that underneath this surface turmoil men and women were alive to their responsibilities.
The Rent One Pays for Lodging The speaker said she felt that the club woman was not in her organization for selfish pleasure oF self-secking, but that she realized the truth of what the president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs had Service is the Tent you pay for the space you occupy." Ca-operation was the key note of club work. Much interest centred about the new building for the New York Women's Club, which would cost, $4,500,000 when completed. Another project was the movement to create a National Department of Education, the secretary for which might appropriately be a woman, Great inter est in the rearing of children of the pre-school age was being shown throughout the country and an enlightened community spirit, which manifested itself in work for dis-bled soldiers and sailors in finding homes for children and bettering home conditions.
Different departments of club] work to which Mrs. Whittaker referred were those of Benevolence, Art, Health (in which the clubs! worked in conjunction with the! Board of Health physicians and school nurses for community! health) civics, music (with special relation to the education of school
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