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. The neat home of the P. L. F. club

completed during the present year at
Garden and Holly streets, has brought
this organization prominently before
the public. It was the second such
club house erected in the. state of
Washington, stands as a monument to
the enterprise of its builders and
makes the club take a recognized place
as an institution in the life of the
community. With the Aftermath now
constructing a home on extensive
scale at West Holly street and Broad-
way, Bellingham will be able to boast
two of the best edifiées of the kind in
the northwest.

The P. L. F. club was organizedA

September 8, 1900 with seven charter
members, Mrs. W. H.’ Axtell, Mrs. L.
H. Darwin, Mrs. C. S. Roray, Miss Nel-
lie' Lee, Miss Mabel Donovan, Miss Ida
Agnes Baker, and Miss Catherine
Montgomery. It was federated with
the state federation of women’s clubs
October 20, of the same year, and was
incorporated under the laws of the
state of Washington September 4,
1904. At the close of its first year
its membership had grown to thirty-
nine; at present its number is fifty.

One of the leading events in the so-
cial world of the present week has
been the sale of Mexican fancy work
and other articles, carried on by mem-
bers of the c ub at their home. This

has been largely attended and the'

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_ MRS. W. H. AXTELL.
First president of P. L. F. club, no’wpresident of business incorporation.

 

 

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most economical and effective way is
the keynote to success in the united
efforts of women. A live club must
not only do good literary work, but
must be a potential factor in mould-
ing public opinion and must be inter-
ested in the sociological and humani~
tarian development of the communi-
ty in which it exists, otherwise it has
only half fulfilled its mission.

“It is natural to expect from the al«
truistic work of club women immediate
tangible results. This .is such a give
and take world, that club women
should be willing to sow for others to
reap.y Ethical changes cannot be
shown like a sum in arithmetic with
the right answer at the end of the
book. In short, Mrs. Burdett’s definia

only to the P. L. F. club members but
to all sister, organizations as well:

“ A true club woman is not a sel—
fish, self—seeking, emotiOnal, tangent
woman, but rather the gracious, home
loving, humanity loving, thoughtful,
patriotic, woman citizen, working ever
toward better things.”

“Club work is oft times strenuous,
but when busy housekeepers, society
women, -authors, artists, musicians,
teachers, etc., all meet together in the
study of child-life, science, literature,
history, art, civics, household econo-
mies, language and religion, all rea—
soning together with tolerance and
liberality for each other’s opinions, all
this certainly means something for the
future culture (it a nation—for it must
be instrumental in making all our
women citizens larger in their ideas
broader in their sympathies, nobler
in their work.”

The officers of the P. L. F. club at
present are, Mrs. A. M. Muir, presi-

tion of a club5‘-WOman’s applies not'

 

MRS. BLANCHE JEVVETT.