. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . he facilities of the city club. Sur-rounded by a green lawn and shaded with fine trees, while yetwithin a step of the heart of the city, the Elks club is unique inSpringfield, and there are probably few lodges better housed thecountry over. Springfield has other clubs too numerous to mention—an auto-mobile club, fishing clubs controlling the rights on nearer or farthertrout streams, and clubs devoted to the whole list of sports andpastimes. A survey of them all might prompt the rash conclusionthat if there is a club of any sort which S
. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . he facilities of the city club. Sur-rounded by a green lawn and shaded with fine trees, while yetwithin a step of the heart of the city, the Elks club is unique inSpringfield, and there are probably few lodges better housed thecountry over. Springfield has other clubs too numerous to mention—an auto-mobile club, fishing clubs controlling the rights on nearer or farthertrout streams, and clubs devoted to the whole list of sports andpastimes. A survey of them all might prompt the rash conclusionthat if there is a club of any sort which Springfield lacks, then Spring-field can not have heard of it. But quite apart from all the clubs herenoticed, yet not to be entirely ignored since the role they play inSpringfield is considerable, are those small and informal organiza-tions, going ordinarily under the title of literary clubs, whose naturedoes not lend them to advertisement but which may mean much inany community, and do in Springfield, as centers of thoughtfuldiscussion. Richard Hooker. ^^^-^?mAii* -^^^ - iixiMlt iW^ .j41*Us*» **
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