The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-16
writer and her hostess the while she
sotted something down on a tablet.

writer and her hostess the while she
sotted something down on tablet.
| With the sublime consciousness that
she wasn't seen.
Very much like a stage detective
who operates in full view of the audi
ence although nobody on the neither
side of the footlights knows he's with
in one thousand miles.
Completely flabbergasted the writer
and her hostess made for the front
entrance.
Out darts another female from be-
hind post and asks If they were look
| ing for somebody.
| Certainly not, said the writer, can't
you see we're riding in an airship?
With which the two made haste to
depart.
| They are, however, intercepted by
the female from the offing who COM
mands them to halt.
| Was the young woman's name so
and SO she asks.
1t is or was, replied the writer.
| If you will step within and leave
your friend out here, she said in effect,
/ may be able to give you some infor
nation.
Returns the writer to still another
apartment.
There she is confronted by yet an
| other woman who eyes her over with
an air of saying
Shoot when you are ready" and
put through another catechism.
| Th1~ hn writ
longer caring to be polite-told the
woman, in common parlance, what
she thought about her." and the whole
system, which was, also in the vernac-
ular, "a plenty"
With that the females coughed up
the young woman's address.
They had had it all the time.
Knew all about her.
But had purposely withheld the in
formation.
And told direct lie.
Besides treating two harmless and
respectable women as if they were en-
isarries of the white slave traffic.
This is not an exaggeration. Because
it happened.
And this is the sort of thing that
has made the Y. w. c. A. for one thing
obnoxious to the very class of persons
it is designed to attract.
An art student once told the writer
that she departed from a Y. w. G. A.
building in another metropolis because
a board director, or some official body,
visited the building at stated intervals
ranged the eating rooms and watched
the girls at their feeding time" as
though they were animals at a circus
and later, went through the building
going into every room, poking round
in closets and bureau drawers and
generally treating the girls as though
they were inmates of a state correc-
tional institution.
Now these things should be avoided.
1t is not the purpose nor intent of
the Y. W. C. A. to be conducted on
such a plan.
For it is supposed to be organized
on exactly the same procedure as the
y. NJ C. A. which is one of the most
beneficent of modern social institu.
Itions and which gives to it's frequent.
ers all the advantages of a private
clubhouse.
It is an honor to belong to the Y. M
c. A.
1t should be similar honor to be.
long to the Y. w. C. A.
But for some occult reason it is not
And it may be put down to the lack
OF diplomacy, oftener than not, of the
women who run it.
, Nothing better than this project to
convert this ideally located building
into a clubhouse for business girls
, has ever been begun in Richmond.
It is a splendid idea and should be
carried to execution.
But the public should not become
, imbued with the idea that it is a
home" for Inmates"
But a building, long needed here
: where business girls could lodge and
beard.
, And live.
2 That is, have those combined attrac
: tions of home and clubhouse charac
, teristic of buildings of this nature.