Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 25 Womens Organizations of Flushing By ISABEL S. SMITH, President, The Good Citizenship League of Flushing. THE womens organizations of Flushing are numerous—15, irre-spective of the many church societies. The Flushing Female Association was organized February 7,1814, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Lawrence, Willowbank, onLawrence Avenue, by a group of women, most of them in the quaintcostume of the Society of Friends. The object was to disc
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 25 Womens Organizations of Flushing By ISABEL S. SMITH, President, The Good Citizenship League of Flushing. THE womens organizations of Flushing are numerous—15, irre-spective of the many church societies. The Flushing Female Association was organized February 7,1814, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Lawrence, Willowbank, onLawrence Avenue, by a group of women, most of them in the quaintcostume of the Society of Friends. The object was to discuss the situ-ation of the poor childrenof the neighborhood whoseparents were not able togive them an education andwho were in danger of be-ing led into vice and im-morality. At this home thefoundation of the first freeschool in Flushing was Association was incor-porated in 1884. Industrialclasses, sewing, carpentry,chair caning and cookinghave been supported formany years. Classes havebeen conducted for adultsduring several winter ses-sions. Two clubs, one formen and one for boys, were organized in the winter of 1912-1913. The work, begun on the simplestlines when Flushing was a village, has been continued with variedmethods to suit circumst
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