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Title: Woman's Club Work and Programs
First Aid to Club Women

Author: Caroline French Benton

Release Date: July 26, 2010 [EBook #33265]

Language: English

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WORK _and_ PROGRAMS
_for_ WOMENS' CLUBS

[Illustration]

_Caroline French Benton_

WOMAN'S CLUB WORK
AND PROGRAMS

Woman's Club Work
and Programs

or
First Aid to Club Women

BY
CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON

Author of "A Little Cook Book," "Easy Entertaining,"
"Living on a Little," "Easy Meals," etc.

[Illustration]

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1913_
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

Thanks are due the editors of the _Woman's Home Companion_
for permission to use the articles in book form which first
appeared in that magazine.

CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION 11
II. THE MODERN DRAMA 24
III. OUR OWN COUNTRY 40
IV. THE HOME 56
V. MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE 69
VI. A TRIP THROUGH THE BRITISH ISLES 83
VII. THE OPERA 100
VIII. THE WORLD'S GREAT PAINTERS 114
IX. TEN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS 131
X. TOWN IMPROVEMENT 145
XI. HOLLAND 160
XII. THE HOMELIKE HOUSE 175
XIII. NATURE 193
XIV. THE GREAT ENGL