And at these state and national conventions the club women compare their work and criticise it, and confer on public questions, and decide which movements they shall promote.

They summon experts in all lines of work to lecture and advise.

Increasingly their work is national in its scope.
In round numbers, eight hundred thousand women are now enrolled in the clubs belonging to the General Federation of Women's Clubs, holding in common certain definite opinions, and working harmoniously towards certain definite social ends.

Remember that these eight hundred thousand women are the educated, intelligent, socially powerful.
Long ago these eight hundred thousand women ceased to confine their studies to printed pages.

They began to study life.