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.