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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 158, 29 March 1919, Page 9

The entertainment and the arrangements connected with supper for the weekly 60cial at the Y.W.C.A. to-night will bo in the hands of the executive committee, which is composed of a group of enthusiastic young men and women. The sanies will begin at 7.30 p.m., and Y.W.C.A. members' will have tlio opportunity of inviting their men friends to ioin in the fun and frolic. The Y.W.C.A. lunch and rest-room, Fowlds' Buildings, is not confined to Y.W.C.A. members, but is open to any girl. This week there has been an inincreased attendance of business juris at midday using the lunch and quiet rest-room. The menu provides a wholesome and varied light luncheon at a moderate cost, Girls and young women arc invited to be present at the sorvico at the Y.AV.C.A. to-morrow afternoon at 4.15 o'clock, when Jliss Elder, of the E.U.S.A., will speak on her work in South America. The speaker left New Zealand ton years ago to train for foreign mission work in London. She has sinco spent five yoars in Peru, from whence she was returning to New Zealand when sho was detained in England by the war. During her 6tay in England Miss Elder was engaged in nursing the sick. The object of the E, U.S.A. is to make- u strong mission by uniting small ones, and to direct attention to the pressing spiritual needs of the continent of South America. Mi=s Elder has .worked amongst _ the Peruvian Indians, and two girls will be dressed in tho costume nl' these natives at the Y.AV.C.A. on Sunday, which will show the exquisite knitting and weaving done by the women of Peru