Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-04

Tar as its have permitted it
advantages for the spiritual, intel
l~ectual, social and physical development
OF young women
A gymnasium with a skilled instruc-
tress to teach them how to he st.ong
and healthy, how to take care of them
selves, to build up muscle and Drawn,
and completely equipped with dp.tc-
date apparatus is one of the greatest
needs.
The classes for instruction IN dress
making, in stenography, In plain sew
ing, millinery and in typewriting are
sometimes regarded as the most I'M
portont part of the work. In these
~classes. for a nominal fee. girls are
trained to become skilled workers. able
to increase their earning capacity, and
.oct : ~siohally being helped in this way
10 make remarkably high wages.
OFTEN cash girls have gone 10 the
association and have been able, through
the help given them in classes, to rise
TO positions of responsibility and high
pay. The drcssmaking class has al
ways been one OF the most popular and
girls are constantly being sent Dut 81
skilled workers, able to earn a good
living for themselves and those de-
PENDENT on them.
Maintains an Employment Bureau.
TO supplement this department OF
work the association maintains an m
ployment bureau. 1t Is not only for
the use of the girls trained In the as
ISOLATION classes, but any girl out OF
employment and seeking work is
helped when possible through this list.
The business men of the city coop
crate generously with the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association in this mat
ter, some of them giving positions con
stantly to the girls recommended by
the bureau.
But the inside workers themselves
claim that neither the physical work
nor the Industrial classes of the assoc
citation meet the most crying need of
young working girls n business wonl-
en-. That, they say, is the absolute
necessity for a social life for the
Strange girl and the working girl in tho
city. A place for rest, . place for
recreation. a place where they can meet
other girls, have games. II they want
them, dance il they wish II. heal
music sometimes and get Inspiration
ror q sweeter and a higher way Of liv-
ing than would come to them other
wise.
To some minds the Travellers "A
department appeals most potently. The
association supports a deaconess, who
is permanently stationed at the Market
street station Of the Pennsylvania
railroad from 3 TO 10 O'Clock, and whose
sole duty is to look out for girls and
women who are strangers in the city.
often girls are lured TO the city through
advertisements, many OF them of a
questionable character. The d~eaconess
must keep her eyes wide open for such
cases, and she ia quick and ready TO
discover them among the daily travel
crs passing in and out Of the station.
She is also quick to discover mer and
women of ill-repute who loiter along,
often in search OF the same girls the
deacoress wants to befriend. Some
times. too, old ladies coming from dis
tant points to visit or live with friends
IN this city are absolutely at a loss as
10 which way TO turn-how to so to find
their friends. Then the deaconess steps
in and helps them. She Is n veritao ole
angel of mercy in many instances.
TO many people the Importance OF
the boarding home, OF the maintenance
OF a home where young women workers
making q minimum wage and having
no other home, al live happily and
~contentedly and comfortably at the
lowest possible sum weekly, take prece-
dence over everything else. The as,
ISOLATION has now two small homes OF
that sort. but they are far from ade-
quate to meet the need