The Denver Star

ACTIVE WORK AMONG WOMEN.

How Mrs. M. C. Lawton Helps Them Forward In New York.

There are scores of women who are yearning for that affiliation which brings about a betterment of conditions in the lives of their sex generally, but who, because of circumstances, are denied this much sought for opportunity. Club life among the women of "San Juan Hill," New York city, is practically unknown. Nevertheless, there seems to be an awakening, a realization of conditions as they exist. Nothing is so hopeful concerning the progress of a people as the desire for uplift, which emanates from within, says Mrs. M. C. Lawton, organizer for the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, after attending a recent meeting in New York, where a club was organized and named for the organizer.

Mrs. Lawton finds that there is a strong desire among the women of the section of New York city, which she visited, for social contact. They need both encouragement and proper leadership in order to bring about better conditions in their home life and to use their time and talents in the right direction for community uplift.

The M. C. Lawton Mothers' club is composed of members of the Derrick chapel in West Sixty-first street, New York, the Rev. J. C. Lawton, minister, and of others in the neighborhood. The officers of the new organization are: Mrs. Emma Alexander, president; Mrs. Lavinia Headley, vice president; Miss Essiline Starks, secretary, and Mrs. R. J. Wilson, treasurer. Mrs. M. C. Lawton is the wife of the Rev. Dr. William R. Lawton of Brooklyn.