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My memory is that I got my first job in that line through a college friend of mine, Rachael Reilly, who was then working in some capacity for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. That was a perfectly comprehensible organization. My mother belonged to it, as did my uncles and aunts. It was a little better than a Woman's Exchange, but it was largely on the Woman's Exchange principle. They had classes in dressmaking for poor girls. They had classes in cookery. They had contacts with a great many different things.

I wrote to this friend of mine working there. I wrote to anybody I knew who had any connection at all with charities to say I wanted a job, but had no experience. She wrote back and said that an organization that was connected with them and was now in Philadelphia was looking for an executive secretary. They were just getting formed. It was a league of women's organizations. It had a branch in New York, a branch in Philadelphia and a branch in Boston. The head of it was Miss Frances Kellor. What they called it in New York, I do not know. I think it was the thing that Mrs. Barclay Hazard was the President of. I think it was called the Woman's Political & Industrial League, or something like that, perhaps the Woman's Municipal League. Mrs. Hazard was a lady of great standing and circumstance and very intelligent.