The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-30
ONE WEDDING
FOR !. ". c. A.
Annual Report Shows Cupid
Is a Member of the
Association.

! accomplished DN the w OMEN
/ Christian Association and last evening
some half hundred members and thei
friends gathered at Engleside on Vine
yard street to listen to the annual re
port of the general secretary and al
address by j. G. Woolley, the temper
ance worker, to hear the report of the
nominating committee and to enjoy 9
merry evening in which refreshments
were not forgotten.
Carlotta Meyer, general secretary,
delivered the following interesting and
instructive report:
An artist one day placed his canvas
before him and, facing the west, said:
Il will paint a sunset" Day after day
he worked, putting in a fence here, a
tree there and a barn in the back
ground on the details of which he
worked with exquisite care, but there
were no sunset colors. A friend came
one day and, looking at the picture,
said: How will you ever paint sun
sets if you spend all your time putting
shingles on a barn?"
Day after day, throughout the year,
we have worked, ofttimes, it has SEEM
ed with shingles only, yet there has
ever been the sunset glow in the
minds eye, and tonight as we endeav-
or to bring to you the report of the
year, we trust the sunset will be but
emphasized by the fences and shingles.
One question is ever uppermost in
the minds of our friends: Does the
Y. w. c. A. meet a real need in our
community"
1t is right that this question should
be, and as Yankee blood asserts itself,
we wish to answer in part by this
other question: What is a real need"
OF bread and meat only? Never! OF
friends, rest, peace. love of books,
home, helpful thoughts, knowledge of
God among men? Yes-a thousand
times-yes.
put the question recently to num-
Der of our young women. In every
case the answer came: cit meets a
real need for me- special emphasis
being placed upon the friends met here
and the value of the quiet rest room.
May 1 in the beginning call attention
to one feature of our treasurer's re-
to US, yet I think it comes as a sur
prise that the total amount of money
handled during the year was $13, 1928;
but 1883. 90 has been in donations. Our
gifts, therefore, are less than II per
cent of our income, and we are So
per cent self supporting, a good show
ing for any Association.
Our Engleside home has been hap
H.,
been well filled, though with a shifting |!
family, as is always true of a place |
ike this. Several of those who were |
here when we came have left Honolulu |
permanently: some East, some West, |
where the West becomes the Far |
East.
One noteworthy feature is the grad
Ial increase of ladies in our home fold. |
4 number of pleasant social occasions
lave enlivened the days, some court
ngs and one wedding have given a
spice of romance to the year.
Many transients have spent a day
IT week with US. Missionaries en-
quite to the Orient have cheered and
oeen cheered by Engleside.
Several young women, alone in a
trange land, have found a haven of
est here. A recent letter from one
Who sorely needed just what we could
upply in care and love says: 81 shall
lever forget the happy hours there"
think to most of our company it has
'een in truth a home more than a
oarding house. There have been, and
oubtless there always will be, many
questions but one by one
hey have been solved.
Through the kindness Of a friend the
arge front room of the Boston build
1g was added to our quarters there,
1aking a cool, airy, commodious din
lg room. The rest room has been {
ewly fitted up, and it is a pleasure to
ae the young women there during the
DON hour, reading or sleeping until
me to return to work. / often think :
lat if the association stood for moth
g else, the rest and peace Of the noon :
our in the midst of a busy day is a
bod and sufficient reason for its ex- :
tence. In the hallway near the din ;
g room door hangs a blackboard
ere notices are written, but more /.
ten there is a helpful thought, and
ten a young woman will say: THAT
eets my need today. I want to
py it,
one group or young women meets
weekly for the study of American o
erature another, just forming. will u
eet weekly from five to five-thirty Il
the Association rooms. w
We have been greatly favored in
wing a course of lectures gwen by tt
SIS Krout. which has been well at K
Ided by the business women. &C
We have been greatly favored in Pc
wing a course of lectures given by dl
SIS Krout, which has been we'll at er
.ded by the business women. of
hanks to you ladies of the city, our ca
rary is fairly good, but 1 have an gu
atiable appetite for books. and yet re
re books. Books of reference, to
ndard poetical books, good recent re-
ion. all are needed. Several young ca
men have joined the Association nc
Ely for the library privilege. and we su
Mt to give them the best In a short III
g YOU may hear the call for books &c:
nded. and we feel sure it will not fol
SUI
title outings. picnics, beach parties Til
nps and horseback rides, all in We
nal but all greatly enjoyed. have alb
n almost too numerous to men DIV