Excerpt from Club Stories, Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs Some one said: Publish them or at least a dozen of them. The idea grew. There are now fifteen thousand club women in the state. We are all more or less interested in each other's work and would want to read the stories. And so primarily they are printed for our own club family and any profit from the publication goes to the state endowment fund. There is another reason. Under the conditions of the contest, the plot of each story was to be laid in the Evergreen State. The result is they are full of local color and have a value aside from their literary worth. Gentle reader or competent critic, whichever you may be, if you enjoy only the literature that is immortal you would better pass this little volume by and reach up to the five-foot shelf for a classic; if you must be thrilled or spell-bound, it were safer for you to buy or borrow a best-seller; but if you have broad sympathies and a heart that warms to ward your kind, we are confident that you will find something to like in our stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.