The herald., 1895-03-10

| so strong, so intelligent, and so valuable,
that the association has never yet owed a
dollar it couldn't pay, and it is founded
on business principles that do not in any
interfere with the Christian work which
is emphatically the policy of the associa-
ton.
The work as it is now carried on, indie
pendent of the self-supporting depart
ments, requires between 5000 and $500 a
month, and the expenses are constantly
becoming larger as the opportunities for
wider and more extensive work are met.
There are institutions provided by county
and state for the care and reform OF men
tai, physical and moral wrecks, but there
would be less need of such institutions If
the work of the Y. W. c. A. could be fl
nancially encouraged by county or state
as public libraries are encouraged, since
this work reaches out to all classes and
helps build up the social fabric.
With recognition and encouragement of
this broad work the necessity of such self
sacrificing efforts as those made by Mrs.
Il. d. Stimson and Mrs. and Miss Wills,
who are doing so much good with their
Industrial School, might be greatly less
ened. These ladies have no connection
with the association, but they recognized
the necessity for such work as the Y. W.
c. A. is accomplishing, and they have
made hospitabe arrangements whereby
the association is to use their building on
Lafayette street for the purpose of reach
ing the young women in that part OF the
city.
The Y. W. C. A. is now starting
these on the basis of a three-months
time of work, a branch of the association
with the prospect and intention of car
rying on similar branch work in other
parts of the city where it is found to be
needed.
During the convention held in January,
Miss Price held a conference at Hotel
Green, Pasadena, in which she explained
the work to people there, and as an out
come n committee is forming an organi-
cation, which will be auxiliary to the
home association here, and the city or
ganization hopes to offer help to every
other place in Southern California in the
same way, as the time and opportunity
presents itself.
At present in the home membership
are:
Teachers, stenographers, clerks, millin-
ers, housekeepers, physicians, cashiers,
kindergartners, music teachers, dress
makers, book-keepers, retouchers, stud
ents, reporters, nurses, trained nurses
copyists, abstract clerks, telegraph and
telephone operators, compositors, lbrar-
ians, domestics, missionaries, manicures,
elocutionists and secretaries.
At the rooms in the Schumacher block
there have been number OF pleasant re-
captions, noon musicales and afternoon
teas. There is small beginning toward
a library, for which donations are always
hoped for from friends of the association
and gratefully received.
The work has grown by persistent
effort on the part OF the various commit
tees; the six rooms were furnished
throughout by individual efforts and
generous response to a donation party.
There are about 10, 900 young women in
Los Angeles, the majority of whom are
in some self-supporting business, and
many of them are away from home and
home influences, filling places OF trust.
1t is to and for these women that the
Y. W. C. A. reaches out its helping hand
ana offers its protection; its possibilities
are limitless; its opportunities are con-
stantly growing and charging. and to the
Christian men and women of Los Angeles
it looks for the support it must have to
accomplish its work.