Atlantic States section: New York, 44• clubs, membership, 350,000; New Jersey, 200 dubs, membership, 22,000; Delaware, 31 clubs, membership, 2,381 ; Pennsylvania, 373 clubs, membership, 60,000: Maryland, 82 dubs,. mem bership, 12,000; District of -Columbia, 27 clubs, membership, 7,000; Virginia, 59 clubs, mem bership, 15,00(); West Virginia, 67 clubs, mem ship, 3,754; North Carolina, 156 clubs; member ship, 7,000; South Carolina, 135 clubs, member ship, 5.000; Georgia, 365 dubs, membership, 27,000; Florida, 159 clubs, membership, 9,150 Middle States section: Ohio, 479 dubs, membership, 60,000; Indiana, 502 clubs, mem bership, 23,340; Illinois, 559 clubs, membership, 65,287; Kentucky, 175 clubs, membership, 45,000; Tennessee, 162 clubs, membership, 7,000; Michi • gam, 343 clubs, membership, 29,564; Wisconsin, 250 clubs, membership 13,000; • Minnesota, 450 clubs, membership, Iowa, 668 clubs, membership, 20,000; Missouri, 282 clubs, Mem, bership, 25,000; Arkansas, 225 clubs, member ship, 9,000.
Gulf States section : Alabama, 217 clubs, membership, about 7,000; Mississippi, 123 clubs, membership, 5,000; Louisiana, 124 clubs, mem bership, 15,250 Texas, 528 clubs, membership, 27,000.
Western States section: North Dakota, clubs, membership, 4,262; South Dakota, 130 clubs, membership, 4,366; Nebraska, 222 clubs, membership, 10,343; Kansas, 370 clubs, mem bership, 10,240; Oklahoma, 278 clubs member ship, about 7,000; Montana, 87 clubs, membership, 5,000; Idaho (no data); Colorado, 159 clubs, membership, 10,500; New Mexico, 48 clubs, membership, 1,827; Wyoming, 39 clubs, membership, Utah, 58 clubs, mem bership, 3,000; Nevada, 32 clubs, membership, 12,000; Arizona, 40 clubs, membership, 2,035.
Pacific States section: Alaska, 7 clubs, mem bership, 284; Washington, 208 clubs, member s)]* 2,000; Oregon, 120 clubs, membership, 8,000; California, 472 clubs, membership, 37,000.
From the above it will be seen that there are 9,000 clubs and 2,500,000 women represented in the federated clubs, and this does not in clude the large number of unfederated clubs and. the patriotic and civic, industrial and social organizations.
Another body is the National Council of Women, United States of America. The com mittees are child welfare, community,. music, education, federal co-operation, immigration,' legal status of women, Pan-American, perma nent peace, prison reform, public health, pub licity, extension committee and suffrage.
The International Council of Women ern• braces 28 organizations of women.
Women's clubs are usually incorporated and. are self-governing and self-supporting. They are occupied with every branch of human ac tivity-. Those educational in purpose devote themselves to art, history, literature, music, preparation for travel and give readings, lec tures and discussions; the social clubs give teas and receptions for celebrities, card parties and other entertainments; the clubs of practical nature originate and aid all kinds of philan thropic movements for the betterment of their city, village or State, aiding schools, libraries, healthful sanitation, municipal or county improvement forestry, parks, tree-planting, vacation schools, manual training, kinder gartens, child welfare, factory inspection, tenement houses, vocation schools, scholar ships for women, laws for the betterment of working-women and children, police matrons, condition of prisons, etc. There are
also health protective clubs that work with the board of health in their respective cities and towns. There are also clubs that take up cooking and industrial arts of all kinds, and clubs devoted to the study of home economics.
Men at first slow to give their sanction to the idea now work enthusiastically with auxiliary women corporations. In his preface to Mrs. Blatch's book, (Mobilizing Woman Theodore Roosevelt says: man who is not blind can fail to see that we have entered. a new day in the great epic march of the ages. For good or for evil the old days have passed; and it rests with us the men and women now alive, to decide whether in the new days the world is to be a better or a worse place to live in for our descendants.
"In this new world women are to stand on an equal footing with men, in ways and to an extent never hitherto dreamed of. In this country they are on the eve of securing, and in much of the country have already se cured, their full political rights. . . . If they show under the new conditions the will to de velop strength and the high idealism and iron resolution which under less favorable cir cumstances were shown by the women of the Revolution and of the Civil War, then our nation has before it a career of greatness never hitherto equaled? The work accomplished by these intelligent bodies of women has been marvelous. For in stance the club in Saint Paul, Minn., known as the Territorial Pioneers secured a State park or forest reserve of 12,000 acres and 200,000 acres of pine land to be cut under forestry regu lations; also a yearly appropriation from the State for a State art society; also an appro priation. of $6,000 yearly for a State traveling library. The activities of national societies, such as the Colonial Dames, of the Daughters of the American Revolution, etc.; include the acqui sition and protection of historical spots and the erection of monuments ; the encouragement of historical research; the preservation of docu ments and relics, and the celebration of patri otic anniversaries.