Y.W.C.A. NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1843, 1 September 1913, Page 4

Y.W.C.A. NOTES.

-6— Miss Helen F. Barnes, national soc- ! rotary of the Young Women's Christian Association for Australasia, and Mr. and Mrs. Gladding wero expected to arrive in Auckland on Saturday. Owing to necessary preparations for the Inennial Convention of tho Y.W.C.A.. to bo held in Mclbourno next October, it .■ is not. oxpected that Miss Barnes will . havo time to visit tho southern centres on this visit.- Mr. and Mrs. Gladding 1; arc. travelling round the world, like so ' many others •of their compatriots from j Am'crica,- first for - pleasure, but also ;; because, they aro keenly interested in t sociology, and aro studying conditions 1 in the different countries thoy visit. 3 Mrs. Gladding is particularly interested in tho Work of the Young Women's i Chrisitian Association, being a member f of the National' Board. During her ' eight months' stay in India she was in intimato, touch. with the work of tho association there. She is also very intimately connected with tho student movement of tho Christian Union. j Probably one reason why the associate tion has so strong a hold on tho eduB. cated American women is because it j comes into close touch with the girls s while they arc still at collcgo or at - the university. There aro in tho D United States fifty thousand student . members of tho association, apart from o the two hundred thousand other mcrni. bers. In nearly all tho big colleges a and universities thcro aro little local - branches governed by tho students 3 themselves, with perhaps an Advisory '• Board formed of tho women lecturers 8 and professors' wives. 0 During tho past week the new syllabus of tho Young Women's Christian Association for tho quarter beginning next week has been'published and circulated. It includes, in addition to religious meetings, Biblo and mission s studies, a list of clubs, evening- classes, d and lectures. Tho clubs embrace one {' for singing, rambling, sketching, be- " sides literary circles. Evening classes aro hold on Tuesdays and Fridays for English, spelling, arithmetic, elocution, r .- dressmaking, and ~ physical training, 1 and an art class is neld on Saturday I afternoons.' Tho physical _ training class begins a short term of eight weeks next Friday evening.. Special health talks aro given on the fourth Saturdaj of cach month, two of these will give Y place to demonstrations by the District Nursing Guild of St. John; tho thirc ls will be given by Dr. Platts Mills. Ar io outstanding locturo for next m'enth wil iy l ) 0 given by Mr. J. S. Tennant, M.A. 'S B.Sc., .with lantern views, on "Soim f- Interesting New Zealand Animals." hi, ~ [0 •