"I think," she said, "that we will come to order and do it now.

Will you put what you have just suggested in the form of a motion ?" At the next meeting of the club the committee to investigate the park made its report.

The club members began a lively canvass among real estate owners and business men, and before long an astonished city council found itself on its feet, receiving a deputation from the woman's club.

The women came armed with a donation of fifteen hundred dollars cash, and a polite, but firm, demand that the money be used to clean up and plant the park.
The council replied that it had always intended to get around to that park, and would have done it long ago but for the fact that there was no park board in existence, and could not be one, because the Solons who drew up the city charter had forgotten to put in a provision for such a board.
The club held more meetings, and appointed more committees.

One of these unearthed a State law which seemed to cover the case, and make a park board possible without the direct assistance of a city charter.