Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-26
What the Y. ". c. A.
Is DOinQ

The girls of the Get Acquainted
club met Monday evening at the cot
tage Tor their regular picnic supper.
There were fifteen present. and after
a pleasant social hour, short pro-
gram was given by the delegates 10
the summer conference at Hollister.
Mo. Miss Sigrid Barglnde, president
OF the club, gave an enthusiastic re-
| port of the club work and Bible study
and Miss Ruth Edwards gave n talk
OF the general work of the conference,
the recreation features, the per-
sonnel, and the foreign work. II was
decided to discontinue this club until
the second Monday in September
wnen the regular fall work will be
| undertaken. 1t is hoped to pursue "a
| blble course and also take some in
struction in Red Cross work.
The Business Womep's club met for
picnic at owen park Tuesday even
ing. when 20 members We're present.
! Mrs. w. II. Peck and Miss Ida
| French were committee to arrange
J for the refreshments. After n very
delightful picnic supper the following
dele gates from the summer confer
once gave very interesting program:
| Miss Monetta Huckabay outlined the
course of Bible study and gave many
!
nection with the class she attended,
which was given by Mrs. Hargrove of
the Scarritt Bible school of Kansas
! City, Mo. one of the important
| points brought out in her talk was
the need of food and drink. fresh air
ana exercise in the physical life, par
alleled by the need of prayer ana
| Bible study, beautiful thots and good
reading, charitable and missionary
work in the spiritual work. Miss
| Mabel Powell gave an outline of the
| lectures given by Doctor Noble on
raising the standards of living, giving
suggestions on leading more effective
; Christian lives, how We may most eff
/ feCtivelY influence the lives of our
! friends, both men and women, for
Poo1, how young women should dress
and act both in social and business
! life, and that clean and righteous liN-
| Ing should be the motto for all club
girls. Miss Ruth Edwards gave the
closing number of the program in
! NiNiN description of the grounds and
| SURROUNDING country. bringing out
strong features of the various parts Of
the conference program, emphasizing
especially Bible study and our foreign
work as related to our worker in
| China, Miss Edith May Wells Ii was
suggested at the conference thdt the
| associations in the southwest field
band together to buy a Nictrola for
Miss Wells, who returns to China
August %. 1t is believed that this
will greatly facilitate cher work as
much time is consumed in entertain
Ing the Chinense women, who are
fond of visiting.
The following new members were
voted In Misses Alice Carr, Edna
Stanley. Monetta Huckabay, Mabel
| Powell, Viola Adams, Bella Worth,
Maud Ueberrhein.
1t was decided to have general
meeting for all club members and
| business women of the city in the
| early autumn and give conference
| program when all delegates to the
| student and to the city conferences
will contribute their part. There was
] total Of seventeen delegates to the
| two conferences. which was the
| largest representation the Tulsa Y
w. G. A. has ever had at a summer
| conference. The next regular meet
| ing of the Business Womens club
will be held the second Tuesday in
August.