Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-11-18

All women of the city are invited to
the vesper services Sunday at p. IN.
at the Y. W, G. A. rooms These SER
vices are to commemorate this week of
prayer being held in all associations
The Northwestern Field which includes
this association, supports a missionary,
Miss Emerson, in Japan. Miss Gladys
Carson will talk about Miss Emerson s
work and the women will have the
lpleasuro of hearing Mrs. Alden. Miss
Leila McCaddam and Miss Lucille Bar
ton will favor us with solos and Miss
Ethel Forbes will preside at the piano
1t is indeed fortunate that the William
ette University Y. w. C. A. could CO.
operate with the city association ut this
time and very enjoyable social hour
! is anticipated after the services.
The board of directors held their
monthly meeting last Tuesday morning
with the following members present
Mrs. c. A. Park, Mrs. Wm. Kirk, Mrs.
A. \. Bush, Miss Florence Cleveland,
Mrs. +. A. Elliott, Mrs. X. s. Wallace,
Mrs. q. &. Brown, Miss Nina McNary,
Mrs. Ii. G.. Epley, Mrs. h. c. Bishop,
Mrs. Frank Spears and Miss Veda Mae
Cross. The ladies remainin for lunch
as is their custom.
Tho general secretary gave very en-
couraging report showing, October the
banner month in our association Is his
tory. There were sixteen 80 cent lunch
es served; one hundred 25 cent lunches !;
three hundred seventy five 20 cent
lunches; seven hundred fourteen Is
cent lunches; four hundred twenty one
10 cent lunches and one hundred forty
eight cent lunches served during the
month Of October.
1t is always very gratifying to the
board members to realize the number
of friends the association is gaining.
The generosity Of our friends is shown
by the apples, pears, canned fruits, jel-
| ly, vegetables and wood for the fire
place all things SO vitally needed, Civ
en- so Loyalty. If the friend that gave
the wood could look into the Y. W. C.
/ A. living room some evening his heart
would fill with joy to see the girls gath
er around the fire place for cheer and
comfort after the days work.
Your association is growing, and
growing fast and we dream of home
Tor our own some sweet day.
The number of bequests to the asso-
citation grows year by year as the people
become more fully aware Of the quail
/ ty of sisterhood the association offers.
Miss Louise b. Cromwell has left
$4,000 to the boarding home department
Of Brooklyn.
| In the summer a bequest Of nearly
| $4,000 was left to the same association
| by the will of Miss Maria Holstein.
Utica and surrounding towns have
| subscribed $4,000 to n new building
! in that city. The final sum in the cam
pagn was underwritten by the execu-
tive staff and the persons belonging to
| the various teams.
| Tulsa, Oklahoma, has opened a cam
paign for $l5e,O00 for new building.
/ Augusta, Ca, has been raising $780,
900 the past month.
Why not Salem Oregoni
The Happy Hour club recently re-
organized will hereafter be called the
". T. X. club. Much fun is being had
by members to guess the meaning
The club members are TO spend the win.
ter travelling around the world. +"
These lessons will be very educational,
instructive and interesting and affords
u splendid opportunity to study the
different countries.
The following is taken from speech
by field industrial secretary:
"While admitting the benefit of sew
ing circles, etc, as social diversions,
there is grave danger of neglecting
worth while things for the more super
ficial amusements. I know girl who
belonged to a weekly sewing society
for nine years, in which time she had
never missed a meeting. She said they
PLAYED guessing games. Imagine play
ing guessing games every week for
nine years.
~ sometimes think that God must
laugh to see all the cross stitches which
are embroidered on towels that serve
chiefly to scratch the face We should
stop embrodering towels and get to
work on something worth while. We,
more than any other people in the I'M
ION, are inclined to accept the tradi-
tions of the previous centuries, and we