The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-08
FOR Y.W.C.A.
MISS MARY S. DUNN. Ma
TI0NAL SEC'Y, ASKS FUNDS
Cottage Boarding Homes a Necessity, II
Nurses and Teachers Are Ac-
c~ommodated.

Miss Mary s. Dunn, national secre-
tary of the Young Woman's Christian
Association, appeared before a gath
ering of representative citizens at a
banquet in the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian Association last night
in order to make known the needs of a
suitable headquarters in Newark of
the Y. w. c. A. and the further need of
cottage boarding houses in various
parts of the city, to be under the SUI
Ipervislon of a house mother. The gath
ering represented the nucleus of a citi-
zens' committee, which will be formed
of 100, and while Miss Dunn, who was
accompanied by Mrs. Richard c.. Jen-
kinson, president of the organization.
spoke in the interest of the young
women, the men partook Of the good
things provided.
Miss Dunn said in part:
Although the m~outhpiece of a great or
as on individual work with the individuals
with whom l would talk over the work.
The magnitude of the work to be done
gagged in Christian work of any kind must
be optimistic, as there are enough pes
simists in the world, and the duty of the
Christian worker is to be In accord with
optimism and overcome pessimism. In
other words, 1t commands unselfish think
ing and unSelf1Sh doing.
Newark offers a very good field for the
work the Young Woman's Christian Asso-
citation has taken upon itself. There Is a
very good organization here that is thirty
six years old, and which has been going
on in a quiet way, until now 1t is ready to
takea leap forward. 1 had no idea it was half
as large a field; that 1t contained half the
responsible people it does. or that there
were half as many young people here. The
Young Woman's Christian Association does
not seek the betterment of those clear
IN-w- W. ~I,.-- wYAATr a. oil ~f0hA aa1
there is great need of it. But our idea
of betterment goes to the middle strata
of society where there are the most worth
while objects that will bring to the world
the greatest benefits.
Character is the underlying principle OF
our lives. The Young Woman's Christian
work, but also the moral. the physical.
the social and educational work necessary
to elevate young womanhood. From the
letting and Keeping of health, and thereby
prevent invalidism. On the social SIDE
We keep the young women from OWL
UP with a distorted or meagre social idea,
teaching, on the contrary, the normal social
life.
1t is. often said in regard to the amuse-
ments that the Young Christian
Association offers to young women that
they are too tame; that they seek more de-
lirious pleasures. But many thousands Of
young women are having most delightful
times at our amusements' and a healtny
social life is engendered as the result.
Many of the young women leave school
at IL years of age, never to return. 1t Is
to this class that the educational features
of the Young Woman's Christian Asso-
citation is directly beneficial.
Another great responsibility of the Young
Woman's Christian Association Is the alien
class of young women. Their future In
this country depends largely upon the de-
velopment of their mental activities, and
the various branches of educational work.
In short, the work of the Young Woman's
Christian Association should be viewed
from a religious standpoint, for which it
stands pre-eminently, as we are not doing
evangeliStic work.
!. The Young Woman' Christian Associa-
when twenty-four women banded them
selves together and opened a room where
prayer meetings were held, a sort Of
the United Kingdom We're prayed for It
seems strange that the Young Woman's
Christian Association should have been
founded by Lady Canard and the Young
Mems Christian Association by Sir George
Williams.
tionaof today has national organizations
in tfeven countries, a worlds committee
in London and between 5000 and 5000
branches in countries of the world. The
national board of Young Woman's Chris
tan associations of the United States, of
which Miss Grace Dodge is the president.
world is looking to America to train its
workers. To this end a training school
will shortly be started In New York.
Here in Newark we have the women
and the work; all that we need is a build
ing. We need a building commensurate
with our membership, which has increased
as the result Of a weeks campaign 100,
and we want a membership here in New
ark of at least 1850. Every self-respecting
woman wants, to work, and once she be-
comes a member of the Young Woman's
Christian Association she is put to work
in teams, not OF twos but in tens, the
same as they put them to work in the
-rx-~L d@11. nv ~ .watnr@o q aaa-
ment thousands of gifts are brought in.
This is the beauty Of a campaign for
membership. 70 precede a building fund
vast army of team workers. 1t is in a
sense a whirlwind campaign, but we Ia
boo the word whirlwind, because 1t sig
ni1es destruction and the Young Woman's
Christian Association is constructive.
We need $S00.U0 for II new home for the
Young. Woman's Christian Association In
Newark. and a third of this money must
need be Pledged, in large pledges, before
we can start our team work. In order to
do this we must educate the community
ans Christian Association is doing. Only
one out Of thirty could answer me If +
was TO ask them II there was a Young
Woman's Christian Association in Newark;
cate the building, or buildings and
only one In ten tell me what work the
Young Woman's Christian Association was
really doing. Therefore. the necessity of
education. when we stop to consider the
|iitt1eness OF the work now being carried
on, the greatness of the field and the mag
ritude or our Wished-for constituency.
Another question Is the
boarding question. Cottage homes where
thirty young women can be cared FOR by
a mouse mother are needed to solve the
problem. 1t is not the young women
working Tor ~ or So a week who need
these cottage boarding house homes, fot
they nave homes OF their w or they
would not De working for that money. III
is the teachers, the nurses, and those
working women whose stipend for the
month IS so and S1N who need these cot
age homes Where but to the Young
Womans christian Association can the
nurse go When she is Off n case. and there
should be a cottage home especially for
this great body of natures noble women. |
who need rest from their labors when off
a case. In good surroundings. So it is not
Charity. we ask for these young women,
put suitable homes. where they can 20 and
live and pay for what they GET.
Miss Dunn then told her auditors she
might see fit to ask. In response to a
question by Mr.. Jenkinson as to the neces-
sity OF the educational feature of the
Young Woman Christian Association
where there were night schools, Miss Dunn
said that there was still plenty Of educa-
tional work left in the Young Woman'sl
Christian Association field.
Mr.. Denman asked If the cottage board
ing houses were not a cloak for some
young women who did not lead good lives.
Miss Dunn said this was not the case, for
the characters of the young women thus