JOTTINGS
PRUSSIAN COLONIZATION
Six million dollars will be spent by Prussia this year for the cultivation and colonization of moor lands by farmers and agricultural laborers. Part of the money will be used to provide cheap credit to settlers.
GALSWORTHY ON THE EAST SIDE AGAIN
Because of its local appeal a performance of Galsworthy’s Strife is being given by the Madison Square Church House at the Murray Hill Lyceum, 160 East 34th Street, New York. [April 25.] The men and boys in the cast have been trained by Jean Marcet and Inez Milholland. Members of the Barnard College Dramatic Club take the female parts.
FROM MOTORS TO FORKED-STICKS
Modern progress and practices which savor of the middle ages sometimes go hand in hand, says the Engineering News. A press dispatch from a city in the Canadian Northwest states that the city council had voted to buy a motor-driven chemical and hose wagon, and at the same meeting decided to engage a water finder hailing from Hamiota to “make a thorough investigation with his magnetic instrument of all possible sources of water supply.”
SOCIAL SERVICE WORK FOR GIRLS
The Department of Social Service of the Girls Friendly Society offers a well worked out program for practical study and work by an “associate” of the department. The program begins, it may be said in passing, with a recommendation to subscribe to The Survey. Other general recommendations are that the associate inform herself about social work, especially among women and children; that she cooperate with established societies and with such movements as that for early shopping; that she recommend to her local group the circulation among the membership of copies of state laws affecting women and children, and arrange for conferences on social topics, both formal and informal.
The Girls Friendly Society has a membership of 44,000, in 700 locals scattered throughout the country.