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Rh them together for mutual benefit and the public good. Like all other organizations of that time, a motto was adopted which was "to increase light" and that has been the aim in all succeeding years. Believing in cooperation, the Federation very early affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs. From its pioneer days, the Federation has progressed until it now numbers 20,000 members, and functions through eight departments of work. One especially noteworthy committee assists young women to complete university training by lending money in the later years of their college course.

A recent accomplishment has been the purchasing of a 60-acre tract of virgin timber, in the western part of Washington, which has been deeded to the state for the benefit of the present and future generations. This beautiful park of trees will become the recreation, as well as a historic spot, when Washington's magnificent forests are a thing of the past.

The seventeenth president of the Federation, Mrs. Serena F. Mathews, is now serving and carrying forward all the good work that her worthy predecessors initiated.

All women students of the University and State College when they matriculate, automatically become members of the "Woman's League." The League operates in social, civic and artistic ways and promotes friendship and an understanding of community welfare. The University is located at Seattle, in the western part of our large state, and the State College is in Pullman, in the eastern section, which, almost, is an empire in itself. While both institutions are coeducational, the flower of Washington womanhood is welcomed in both.

A woman, Mrs. Frederick Bently of Seattle, has been the prime mover in the establishment of a work shop and plant where all kinds of articles from fancy and household brooms to many more diverse things are made. Here the blind are given an opportunity to become self-supporting, and consequently happy. Through donations and the sale of their product, the permanent "Lighthouse" is situated on the water front and is managed and operated solely in the interest of the sightless ones who have, through women's zeal, been given the priceless boon of a place in the world's labor.

One of the splendid accomplishments of Washington women is the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, which was organized in 1907 by a group of society women called together by Mrs. J. W. Clise of Seattle, for the purpose of starting a hospital for crippled children.

A six-bed ward was the beginning of this magnificent work, and it appealed so much to popular interest that the response