In a hundred cities East and West the women's clubs have been the original movers or have co-operated in the playground movement.
Out of this persistent work was born the Playground Association of America, an organization of men and women, which in the three years of its existence has established more than three hundred playgrounds for children.

In Massachusetts they have secured a referendum providing that all cities of over ten thousand inhabitants shall vote upon the question of providing adequate playgrounds.

The act provides that every city and town in the Commonwealth which accepts the act shall after July 1, 1910, provide and maintain at least one public playground, and at least one other playground for every additional twenty thousand inhabitants.
Something like twenty-five cities in the State have accepted the playgrounds act.

It is a good beginning.

The slogan of the movement, "The boy without a playground is the father of the man without a job," has swept over the continent.
[Illustration: STORY HOUR AT VACATION PLAYGROUND, CASTELAR SCHOOL YARD, LOS ANGELES, CAL.] This surely is a not inconsiderable achievement for so humble an instrument as women's clubs.