WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 171, 9 April 1918, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from page 2.) WELCOME TO MISS GEDDES y.W.O.A. AND ITS' WORK FOR GIB-LS. Yesterday afternoon the members of the Board of Directors of the Y.W.C.A, gave an "At Home" to Miss Mary Uetldes, national secretary of the girls' department of the Y.AY.C.A. for Australasia. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool attended the reception, also Mr.s. W. b\ Massey, and the cheery common room looked very bright and attractive with its decorations of Michaelmas daisy, coreopsis, and holly berries. Mrs. It. Pearson, president of the association, Mrs. Luke (Mayoress), and Miss Birch (general secretary) received, and associated with thorn ■upon the platform was Miss M'Lean, a member of the controlling organisation. A brief and very enjoyable musical programme preceded the speeches which were made by Miss Geddes aud Miss Birch, several pianoforte solos being played by Miss Sturtevant, and songs being contributed by Madame Anderson and Miss Brittain, all of which were greatly appreciated. Miss Sturtevant played the accompaniments, and at the close of the programme afternoon tea was handed around.

Upon being asked to speak, JUisa Geddes gave an interesting outline of the organisation of the Y.W.C.A., its various departments, and their particular work. Women were sometimes apt to'talk of women's rights aud forget that there were also women's responsibilities. Life was a very complex affair, and there ivere many needs _to be met, many of which the association was trying to do its best to supply; most of all was there a need for sane, developed, joyous Christian womanhood. The Young Women's Christian

Association was the largest organisation of the kind in the world. There was hardly a country in which it was i not to be found, and it had a membership of over 800,000 women and girls. As was well known the association tried to carry out a fourfold ideal— that of intellectual, spiritual, physical, and social development of its members —and they met for the purpose of helping each other. Theirs was in truth a real democracy, and what counted was not who a. person was, but what they were. More than ever they needed to work for the uplifting of character. In making their sacrifices the men who were fighting for freedom and country were taking outward steps in their development, and the association Bad to see to it that the women and girls did not lag behind. One soldier had said to her: "What was the good of fighting when on coining back one finds the girls living just the same old life, as though there were no war." That was not what they wanted to have said of them, surely. Speaking of the girls' department of the Young Women's Christian Association, Miss Geddes said that within the past two years or so they hfvd • been concentrating upon the younger girls of the country, the girls ranging from fourteen years of age up to nineteen or twenty. It had been felt that in this direction were immense potentialities which were in too many cases allowed to go to waste, and so it was decided to specialise upon girls, to try to understand them and to direct their energies and possibilities into useful channels. With this end in view the girls' department was inaugurated in connection with several of their branches, provided with their own organisation, trained secretary, etc. Within a space of two years there were now 2700 girls belonging to the girls' department of twelve of their associations. To make girls fit to be the wives and mothers of the future was an important objective, and to assist in their work they were going to ask the Plunket Society to work in with the association by placing within the reach of these girls opportunities of learning things that they should know in connection with infant life and homo life. Miss Birch was also asked'to speak, and she, too, enlarged upon tho great importance of the work for young girls. In these days there were very many temptations, many pitfalls for their feet. , So mucli independence was theirs now, so much freedom,'that these dangers were all the greater, and there was greater need to counteract them by providing outlets for their energies. In many ways the association tried to guard them. Girls arriving in the city as strangers were met, and were directed to the liqstcls or to some known boardinghouse. Last yen/ , they had had 1051 girls passing through the hostels, and so many applications had been made for entrance into them that they had been forced to make an age and a time limit. 'Die association also tried to make girls save, and as a result of their endeavours they had had a savings account of £600 for the last year, all saved by girls from their earnings, and by girls who had never saved before. Miss Birch ' told her hearers that to meet greatly extended requirements they had purchased one building, that in Boulcott Street, which was at present used as a hostel for soldiers by the Y.M.C.A., pnd the one they were now purchasing was the Y.W.C.A. hostel in Macdonald Crescent. The Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) made a brief speech of thanks to Her Excellency tho Countess of Liverpool for her presence there that afternoon, to the contributors to tho musical programme, and to Miss Geddes for her address. Her Excellency also spoko, and expressed the pleasure she felt at being connected with tho association in their work, and of lier great interest in all that it was doing.

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