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been able to arrange for medical inspection in rural schools. In 

 Wolfeboro, N. H., the women's club induced the local dentist to 

 inspect without charge the teeth of all school children, including 

 those from rural and ^ illage schools. Volunteers from the women's 

 club attend to the clerical work and funds are furnished for dental work 

 when necessary. A county nurse for public health work is employed 

 by a county social weKare league in Montgomery County, Md. All 

 local women's organizations in the comity wliich ^^'ish to work for 

 health improvement are invited to belong to this social weKare league. 

 The nurse receives a salary of SI 00 per month and works with the 

 county health officer. Her particular work the first year was directed 

 toward reducing the death rate from tuberculosis and improving 

 general sanitary conditions. The women's club of Pepperell, Mass., 

 paid the salar}^ of a trained nm'se for a short time for the jDurpose of 

 interesting the public in a district nursing association. This latter 

 association is composed of men and women and is suj^ported by $1 

 membership fees, with an appropriation of $200 from the town, 

 together with fees of 25 cents an hour for those who can pay for the 

 service. A number of Red Cross nurses have been employed mider 

 the rural nursmg department of the American Red Cross and the 

 local women's rural clubs have greatly assisted in promoting the 

 success of the work. Rural women's organizations have given some 

 assistance in making provision for comity social service workers, 

 such as county probation and juvenile court officers and children's 

 aid society workers. They have also cooperated with these workers 

 in caring for the dependent children of the county. 



Philanthropic work is carried on by many women's rural organiza- 

 tions. The farm woman's free time, taken wliile resting from more 

 strenuous labor, is frequently spent in knitting, crochetmg, and sew- 

 ing for sales to raise funds for charitable and religious purposes. The 

 Congregational Ladies' Aid of Huntley, Mont., has contributed $1,000 

 in this way during the past seven years toward the support of the 

 church. Barrels of canned fruit and crates of eggs, besides cash 

 donations, are sometimes sent to local orphanages. An "Egg Day" 

 is sometimes held, when each member contributes a dozen eggs or 

 more, which are packed in cases at the club meetings. This has been 

 done by farm women's clubs in many States, among which may be 

 mentioned the Norden Ladies' Aid, on a Montana reclamation project, 

 and the Boone Township Club, in Iowa. At Glendale, Ariz., the eggs 

 were contributed at Easter and used for an egg hunt in the town 

 park. Each child paid a small fee and the money was used for philan- 

 thropic purposes. A room in the town hospital is maintamed by a 

 rural club in Iowa. Seventy-five dollars was spent for the original 

 equipment and special conveniences are added from time to time. 

 War sufferers are assisted by local federations of women's clubs. 



