WOMEN: Raising Money

A meeting of the American Women's Association was held last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.* The purpose was to boost the Association's campaign to raise $2,000,000 for a great women's clubhouse. Some 10,000 women were present. Part of the publicity was to make honorary members of 49 women—one from each state and from the District of Columbia.

The 49 included Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (Governess Ferguson was omitted; from Texas was chosen Florence P. Sterling, an officer of the Humble...

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