Not so many years ago the missionary society, and perhaps the parsonage aid society, were almost the only organizations in which women took a part.

In recent years church and educational organizations have multiplied, and today there are numerous women's clubs devoted to many different objects.

Southern women are active in civic leagues, associated charities, and other forms of community endeavor; they are prominent in various patriotic societies; and there are many suffrage societies.

Where the laws permit, women are members of school boards; they often head organizations of teachers composed of both men and women, and at least one woman has been chosen mayor of a town.
Women have done more than the men to keep alive in the South the memories of the past.

Perhaps because the women of the older generation suffered more than the men, they have been less willing to forget, and their daughters have imbibed some of the same feeling.