Already two public schools have organized dancing classes, and several settlements have thrown open their dances to the public where formerly they were attended only by settlement club members.
By helping working girls to find cheap vacation homes in the country, and by establishing vacation banks to help the girls save for their summer outings, the committee hopes to discourage some of the haphazard picnic park dissipation.

In summer many trades are slack, girls are idle, and out of sheer boredom they hang around the parks seeking amusement.

It is only a theory, perhaps, but Mrs.Israels and the others on her committee believe that if many of these girls knew that a country vacation were within the possibilities, they would gladly save money towards it.

At present the vacation facilities of working girls in large cities are small.

In New York, where at least three hundred thousand girls and women earn their bread, only about six thousand are helped to summer vacations in the country.