The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
BUSINESS WOMEN
INTERESTING OCCASION AT Y. w
 C.. A. HOME. [,
Informal Dinner Followed Fly Addresses To Girls By Miss Adele Dfsbro
 And Miss Emmn
 Hs Hays,


 In order tot increase interest among the business women, of Montgomery in the Young Women's Christian Associa- ton a delightfully."- informal dinner WAS given last night at the Association Home, at which time a score or more of Montgomery's young business wo- men Eaef ip 2 social way and were af- rewards entertained with interesting
 talks by Miss Adele Disbro, City Sec retary of the Gulf States. and Miss Emnla Hays, of New York, National Secretary of the Young women's Chris tain Association.
 Miss Disbro and Miss Hays are spending e few days in Montgomery and are exerting every effort to assist In the work of building up the Asso- citation here
 The double parlors of the Association home were thrown together last night and after the dinner, which was sefv- cd in the dining room, tastefully dec- orated for the occasion, the party of young women went into the parlors, and after short prayer by Miss Hays and a song In which the entire conn company joined The Ewo young women whose lives are devoted 10 the work of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
 clation. seated among that large group of young women and girls who have entered into the business life of the city, talked interestingly of the work. The Young Woman's Christian Asso- | ciation belongs to the business women. As an Association, 1t was organized | for the women and girls whose days are spent at work-teachers, stenoE- | raphers, hookkeepers, clerks. and the many, many other women filling posi- tions which are daily opening and inc viting the young women to go out into l the world and take her place in the
 army of workers. For every woman who works, the Association was In" 1 tended. and to every woman in Mont. 1 gomery who spends even part of her | time in business of any kind, the beau | tiful Young Women's Christian Asso-
 citation of the city should especially aD- peal.
 In her talk to the young women Miss l Disbro told of the work of the Asso- 1 citation in the South, especially in the | Gulf States, where she has for sever" al years been one of tne travelling sec- retaries The work in the South Is com- | paratively new. Five years ago there was no Association soath of Nashville, | Tenn, but about that time Atlanta, Ga, l took steps in the direction of an As- l sociation Miss Disbro told of the struggle whcih the Association had to obtain any sort of a stronghold at the beginning and then of the advancement l from day to day, month to month, and of the wonderful work and the beauty of the life of, the Atlanta Association.
 In the life of the Young Women's Christian Association, she said, there are four distinct division, the spiritual the intellectual, the social and the physical, and to make a perfect whole | these four must enter, must combine. l She spoke of the number of business women'sT clubs in the Atlanta Assocta- ton, One of these clubs is called the | '.S.S I.. $. P. i" taking the divisions of Nskns NeEss. frf sa.sa na a 1 name, and another is called the Glow
 CT Club.T The stories she told of tho l work among the business women of Atlanta and the delightru1 times which they have in the ,AssocIation home life
 was an inspiration to the many bright
 faced young women of Montgomery Iswho listened eagerly to all she said.
 Not alone of AtlanCA did Miss Disbro sneak but she told of the organization of the Associations at Savannah, Co., 1 lumbus and Athens, Ga., and of the small beginnings of eAcn and of their wonderful growth ana progress.
 Mont tgomery, she said, was the only Association in the Sodth which began life in it's own home The other Asso-
 citations began in small rooms, rented for the purpose but with mulch larger membership than the Montgomery As- sociation had. It was clearly brought out by both of the speakers, that as | e rule 1t IS better for the Wofk 70 De- gin at the bottom and work up, that 1 sometimes too prosperous beginning augurs difficulties of the most vital character. Of the many Association homes in the South Miss Disbro said that the one at SavannHn, Ga. was next in attractiveness to Montgomery. The
 Savannah Association is the only one in the South which has an established 1 traveling aid. A matron employed by
 the Association stays at the railway station and meets all trains and looks out for any woman travelling alone, This phase of the york is common
 among the Associations of the larger cities of the East anu North.
 Miss Hays talked of the work of the | Association from a more general stand point She spoke of me Influence for good the Association has In the world, and something of It's wonderful growth and development. She spoke of the I four divisions of the work of the As- soeiation and of the beauty of the
 character developed along the foour lines. To be developed physically. so-
 cially, intellectually and spiritually, is I ApHa al Ixy