Local societies and clubs, the aim of which is to improve unfavorable conditions that exist in their communities can establish a no more fruitful source of helpfulness than by the employment of a visiting nurse. Red Cross Chapters will find in such an undertaking not only a means of creating interest in local work of the Red Cross, but opportunity of enlarging their field of usefulness to the community. The experience of the Red Cross Chapter in Islip, Long Island, in the employment of a rural nurse has long ago proven the value of this plan of work. HOME NURSING AND FIRST AID INSTRUCTION FOR WOMEN MISS MARION L. OLIVER, _In Charge of Organization of Classes._ Believing that the physical welfare of the race depends largely upon home conditions and that the women of the nation have a very definite responsibility in maintaining the health of the family, the American Red Cross has undertaken to organize on a national scale classes for women in home nursing and first aid. It is hoped that this instruction will make them better home makers, better mothers and better citizens. Before describing what has been accomplished in this direction, it is best to give details of the plan adopted. This can be done most briefly by quoting from the official circular relating to the same. PLAN OF INSTRUCTION FOR WOMEN. The American Red Cross has decided to organize classes of instruction for women in first aid, home nursing, hygiene and allied subjects, to be given under the supervision of the National Committee on Red Cross Nursing Service. OBJECTS. 1. To afford women the opportunity to learn first aid to the injured, and to provide simple instruction in the home care of the sick. 2. To afford women the opportunity to learn how to prepare food for sick and well. 3. To afford women the opportunity to learn how to prepare rooms and other places for the reception of ill and injured. 4. To afford women the opportunity to learn how to protect their own health and that of their families. It must be distinctly understood that this course of instruction for women is only intended to prepare them to render emergency assistance in case of accident, to give more intelligent care to their own families under competent direction, and, in exceptional cases, to assist in relief work under the supervision of the Nursing Service of the American Red Cross. NEED.