The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-15
WORK FOR CHARITY
and WOMANHOOD
SOME INTERESTING FACTS DE.
VELoPED BY MRS. ToUsLEY IN
HER ADDRESS BEFORE THE
TOWN MEETING ON THE BOARD
ING HOUSE ASSOCIATION.

At the Town Meeting last night,
among other addresses was one by Mrs.
w. w. TousIey, president OF the Board
/ ing House association. She outlined
| the work OF the organization, it's OBJ
Jects and necessities and among other
things said
| The true meaning OF charity Is love
or kindness, the spirit OF .benevolence-l
the promoting of happiness and the
welfare of others, and II is from this
viewpoint that I wish to consider my.
subject, Woman and her efforts to
promote happiness and in providing
for the welfare Of other women in Far
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First, and primarily the fundamental
requisite for benevolence is genuine
good will and kindness. The Christ
love- IL you please, that carries with It
a willingness to serve and to sacrifice.
Fargo is no longer a little frontier
town but a real metropolitan city.
II surprises us to think that there
are 1000 young women earning their
daily bread in our city and 500 young
women from out of town attending our
institutions Of learning.
Our churches and religious organiza-
doubt II they reach one-th third of these.
Their social and intellectual welfare
have been just as sadly neglected.
There are hundreds of young women
who must entertain their friends in
somebody's kitchen or in their private
room, or by walking the streets! We
have forced these young women to
spend their evenings on the street or
At he fra~ In lsNF har
place. 80. .a. -...
The broadcast field for sbenevolence Is |
providing for the social, intellectual
and religious welfare of these young
women. There is no work in the city
that will yield more satisfactory re-
suits or be more appreciated. There
are fully 1000 young women who could
be helped by this kind of work and 1
know of no organization that could do !
this more effectively than the Y. w, c.
| A. with its workers trained and equip
| ped for this special kind of service.
The benevolence of which | was ask
| ed to speak more especially was the
! Woman's Boarding house.
There are about 1000 working and
student girls in need of this kind of a
benevolence. It has been estimated by
some of our educational workers that
If accommodations of this kind were
provided it would increase the female
attendance at our colleges % per cent. !
II is also estimated that these stu
dents bring into our city from $50 TO
| $50 per month. Surely this class is
worth considering, even from bust |
ness point Of view:
There are now two organizations,
| planning to meet this need of our non
resident girls II can hardly be said
that the work can be overdone though
| the duplication of efforts in this one
| field might seem disproportionate to
the effort being made in other lines
The pioneer undertaking in behalf Of
a boarding home was that which has
recently been definitely organized un-
der the name of the Boarding House
1 association. In response.'to many i'm
quiries as regards this. work have
been asked to give a little history of
! the work. s~...'a.
About four years ago the Young
Woman's club was organized. The orig
inal idea of that movement was the
| opening of a boarding home. No suit
able building could be obtained and the
basement rooms In the. Edwards block
were secured. In short time this or
ganization was doing social, education
al and religious work providing a rest
room. sewing, cheap lunches and run
ming a. woman's exchange. This work
was all good but far from the original
plan, so committee was appointed
from the board of control to raise funds
for a boarding home. Later the Young
| Woman's club and the work carried on
in their rooms we're given to the Y. w.
c. A.. and the boarding home commit
tee. with it's funds, were maintained
as the nucleus for new, organization.
In order that there should be no con-
Fiction the boarding home committee
waited a year that the Y. w. c.. A.
might become established before they
pushed out in their work. The Board
ing House association is the carrying
out of the original plan for the Young
| Woman's club and has many of the
! same women upon it's board that were,
on the Young Woman's club board from
its inception.
After a thorough investigation, of this
t kind of work 1t is believed that the
independent boarding homes for girls
come the nearest to furnishing the pri-
J vate home environments for the girls
: of moderate means, while the Y. w.
/ G.. A. dormitories appeal to the better
: paid Office girls, teachers, travellers, etc.
We want to make it possible for the
: young women of moderate means to
live clean, pure lives and be believe
/ we can furnish good board and room
for 81 per week and that practically
= includes laundry and plain sewing, for
) II gives the girls chance to do these
things for themselves.
5 We present the Boarding Home as
/ ISOLATION work as a practical benevol-
i ence in behalf of the womanhood OF
a Fargo.
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