Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

150 ART AND HANDICRAFT membership is larger than that of the New England Women’s Club, the annual fee for each being ten dollars, with an initiation fee of five dollars. This club has a good record, having always been active in works of charity and in social and æsthetic culture. The Association for the Advancement of Women, of which we shall presently speak, was first planned by members of Sorosis, and the general federation of women’s clubs, which is now so prominent in the country, was also devised by it, a similar plan having been ARABIAN EMBROIDERY FROM SCHOOL FOR MOORISH AND ALGERIAN GIRLS. Exhibited by Mme. Luce Ben-Aben. France. suggested in the New England Women’s Club, but not carried into action. The Fortnightly Club and the Woman’s Club, both of Chicago, next claim our attention. The first of these was founded by Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, a woman of much intelligence, energy, and cultivation. Being herself a sedulous student of foreign literature, of botany, and sociology, she made every effort to inspire the ladies of her city with a love for the same high pursuits. The Fort- nightly has always been purely literary in character, and lias done