The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-27

girls has been so apparent that the
educational department is in many
, cities a very simportant factor in the
work. And this department has not
been wholly for the illiterate, but
many girl of culture may find in
the association classes the very thing
| she needs, given at an hour when it
is convenient and in an atmosphere
that is helpful and inspiring.
! The social department has meant
more to many girls than ever can be
estimated. There is the girl of least
! opportunity who meets here in the as
sociation people who are refined and
are really worth knowing. and she is
shown into world that is broader
I and brighter and better than any she
has yet known. Then there is the
girl who has everything and she
| finds here, as she meets with girls
! who have faced the world and con
quered. how narrow and. petty and
selfish her own life has been and who
can say that 1t may not mean to her
as much as it has meant to her less
cultured sister.
The physical department has meant
health and strength to girls who work
indoors all day, to girls who live lives
of leisure and to women who forget
their worries and struggles and have
happy self-forgetful times in the joy
Gus atmosphere of the Association
gymnasium.
The beauty. too. of association work
is that 1t is not just an edifice with
four walled rooms. each entirely sep
arate from the other. where individ-
uals go in and get, independently OF
every other phase of the work., relig-
ious or educational or social or ply
steal food just as her fancy may die
tate. but the association is life And
every part of it is united in some way
, with every other part. There is so
cial life in the gymnasium and there
is education in the social gatherings
and best of all there Is Christ in ev
!. cry department. No woman has HE
so sheltered but she has some tempta
tion or some weakness which the
association can help her to overcome
No woman is so stron5 and self-reilan'
:, but she may gain more strength mere
for her life battle No woman has
character so beautiful but that worf
, with other women for other womer
: will make her ten fold more attra
y tive. and no woman ever gave hersei
nm in this great work for others eVei
for a short time who would not say
thousand times over that the help U
her own life has been far greater ina
all she has given to the association.
rho woman the association is try
ing to reach is you. Your helshpo
> who works in the factory, and you
!. friend in her high social circle ana W
= successful business woman across III
: way. all need the association; out 20
need If worse than they and it is yo
that the association wants.
Tho association is not a machin'
;nxented and manipulated by pres
1 don't few consecrated board Wome
and general secretary who are pr
narins and offering to the women
:. Tho CITY such viands as it may occ,
Ia them to concoct for the pup
> good A Young Women's Christla
association is large board OF Won
on united and working together II
christ and womanhood, and ever
member is as much part OF u
whole as every other member. II
idea Of association work is every Woi
a, working with other women ior y
benefit Of every woman that 1t
d nossible for the association TO reac
d The success of the association Is W.
success if YOU are a member OF u
> organization and likewise every iallu
5 ;s vour failure. The secret of succe
in association work is individual wo
united work TO be sure, put ai"a
~ individual and forever personal.
,ur Our own association numbers :
"a members. If you had worked nara
!, II might have been 900 There we
~ sixty in the gymnasium classes Ia