New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-29
CINCINNATI Y. w. G. A.
WITH THIS MONTH 1T COMPLETES ITS
THIRTY-FIRST YEAR
.sIIE WAS NOT BORN IN THE PURPLE LIKE HER
SISTER OF NETWORK" SAYS THE

..sHp WAS NOT BORN IN THE PURPLE LIKE HER
SISTER OF NETWORK" SAYS THE
INTERNATIONAL MESSENGER"
With this month the Young Womens Christian
Association of Cincinnati completes the thiry-frst
year of its existence.
"She not born in the purple, like her prosper
Gus sister of New-York." says THE International
Messenger" the official publication Of the Young
Womens Christian Association NOR has she been
like the phenomenal baby Of Brooklyn. the curled
darling Of an admiring and munifcent society.
"she has always had to work for her living. and
her managers, while applying their best energies
to the administration Of the fund at their disposal.
have often taxed all their wits in efforts to
ment the association
A boarding home for busy girls of the
first and most vital works taken up by the earnest
women who organized themselves IN June OF 1853
a Christian association.
During the first two-thirds Of the century 1t
a rare thing for a modest and refined girl to leave
her fathers house TO seek employment in distant
city. and then she usually found home In
some household of friends who felt responsible for
her protection.
I'VE need not be told" says Of the managers
of the Cincinnati association that conditions have
changed. nor that in almost every city tens OF
thousands Of girls leave lonely lodgings in the
dusk OF winter mornings to return after nightfall
20 dark and ireless Even worse. In many in
stances. the boarding houses where impulsve
and unframed young people are grouped together
Homesickness in and pride OF independence
in Others combined with the natural and healthful
desire for pleasant social intercourse help to draw
them into amusements which are not always ele-
waiting safe"
The founders of the Cincinnati association say
they were not content merely TO follow the i'm
pulses Of mothery Kindness but have studied
their problem thoroughly.
In seeking employment for the increasing mum:
bers who came to ask for II. educational and
Industrial department was developed, and for ten
or a dozen years occupied building by itself
furnishing-in addition 10 its Observation-Disclosures
for a considerable number OF boarders.
The shifting centre of population In the city
made II advisable to sell the old boarding house.
which had done twentythree years good service.
A new building sufficient for the needs OF all de-
partments of the work is already planned, and It
is earnestly hoped by the managers that the com,
ing autumn or winter will see the spacious and
cheerful structure home for the mental quicken
ing and moral strengthening Of eighty or more
good working and aspiring girls. . 49,,
"A word may be needed as 70 the limits WITHIN
which the association works said one Of the
managers 1T is not hospital. nor Is 1t rescue
mission Many a young woman mas come from
one or other OF the hospitals 70 enjoy a rev
weeks of ouiet convalescence In the cheerful and
sympa thetic atmosphere OF the home before re-
tyrning strength enabled her to take up the burden
Of life again. And. of course illness Will come.
lust as in any other home; and every housemate
viii show her helpful sympathy.
"In the new building, so eagerly desired tnere
will be space in the light and air OF the top story
turbance to themselves and the danger OF spread;
ing infection. But the care OF the seriously III
mist be merely incidental. and never primary
object with the association