The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-10
CLUB HOUSE IS TOO SMALL
Twenty-Five Girls Can Be Accommodate
ed at Home From Which Each Day
Seekers of Admission Must Be
Turned Away-Lack of Room.

There can hardly be any one thing
more needed in every town and city
than an abode where girls and women
coming from other towns can find a
place that will be a substitute for the
home and mother they have left be-
hind. Oh yes, plenty of rooming houses
to be found in every city nowadays,
but how would you like your daughter
to go miles away from home to work
and live in rooming house, There is
nothing to be said against the rooming
house which is an institution as greatly
needed as are restaurants, stores and
soforth, but don't forget you mother
with daughter away from home-that
there are rooming houses and rooming
houses and no matter how well girl
may be able to take care of herself,
she can It always tell what kind of a
rooming house she is getting into.
There s the keeper Of the rooming
house, undesirables can't get into any
more than they can get into good
homes, and then there are the ones
"open to the public. " To some people
money looks good just 50 it is money.
In strange city, how is girl to know
if she is getting into the right place.
Asking strangers addresses of places
where one can live is hardly to be
recommended.
Every city, within whose limits girls
are allowed to work (and l think there
isn't one city in this country where
girls are prohibited from working)
should have Girls Club and a 7. w.
G. A. and if the town is not large
enough to support both of them, at
least one of those haven-for-girls should
exist. Many towns can offer fine op-
portunities to girls in the way of work,
but what have they to offer as a place
to iveg Hotels, rooming houses with
restaurants and cafes for eating places.
Even the girl who can afford to live
at first class hotel or in nice room
and take her meals out, would rather
Ngo to a Y. w. C. A. Of. Girls Club
where she does not seem to be entirely
alone with not a soul to never welcome
her with a smile. Then too, hotels, UNI
less it be one where as many women
stop at as do men, do not appeal to
most girls. It is anything but pleasant
to walk through lobby or corridor
where are Longing dozen men or
more, each one possessed with the idea
tnat you feel fattered to death to have
him stare at you, when in reality you
feel only contempt at the lack of breed
ing.
Kenosha is very fortunate that it
has among its men and women nine who
are making Girls club possible. Be-
gun several years ago under a different
name and by people who did not enter
heart and soul into the undertaking,
the e-of-recreation forsgirls, as it
was called was not as successful as it
could have been made. A opposition
like this is thing that has to be
studied, it is not fad that will run
itself properly unless time and thought
and consideration are spent on it.
Thanks to the ''stick -to-is-iveness y
Of the Mines. R. Fl. Welles, Chester
Barnes, A. Fl. Lance, Joseph G. Rhode,
Tom Barden and Miss Josephine Coo
per and the Messrs. J. III. Brine, George
Fl. Allen and David Fogwel1, the Girls
Club on Sheridan Road is proving a
real nome to girls employed in Kenosha
factories and other business places.
No woman could be more popular
than is Mrs. Winans, who gives to each
and every girl as much individual care
and attention as is given to most girls
by their mothers. No girl at home, i'll,
could be more tenderly taken care of
or more anxiously watched and when
some girl forgets to reach home at
night at the appointed hour, by no one
would she be more worried over. The
fondest mother couldn't imagine more
accidents to late girl than does this
think of and plan for. Connected for
many years with one of the largest
girl colleges in Illinois, Mrs Winans
is thoroughly experienced in how to
deal with girls, and its the human
interest in her instead of the g boss -
quality that makes her SO popular with
her girls everyone of whom calls her
s'mother.'
As Santa Claus makes hit with the
kiddies so does Mrs. Eva Roloff, the
manufacturer of all the good things to
eat that are gotten away with at the
club, make a hit with these boarders.
And when seven large loaves of bread,
not a few biscuits and several over
grown-in-size-cakes disappear in one
day, why "nuff-said' as to the cook.
Girls and women wishing something
to do have great work here waiting