Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-24
DISTRICT Y.W.C.A. !
TO RAISE $4,000
War Work Council Seeks Fund
for Maintaining "Host-
eSS Houses"

A mass meeting win be held af the
home OF the Misses Childs. connsctf-
cut avenue and Irving street, tomorrow
at pm. to outline plans for the rails
ing Of $4,000. washington's share OF
the 100000 war budget asked for By
the war work council Of the Young
Women's Christian Association. Among
the speakers will be Mrs. Howard
Hughes Of Trenton, N. J.. who has been
sent to Washington to assist the local
in this city. The fund Is for the pur-
pose Of erecting and maintaining hos
tess houses" at the various camps and
cantonmeEts in this country where
relatives and friends Of soldiers in
training may find . place to meet the
men in uniform.
Another Of the major purposes OF
the fund Is the finding and IL necessary
for girls employed in munition fao-
tories. both In this country and in
Europe. These girls. 1t ts said. freQuent-
iy have no adequate place in which to
place.
Writes of Difficulties.
Miss Elizabeth Boes. in charge Of tho
cafeteria undertaken in Petrograd.
Russia, for the women there. writes
| of the difficulties met in carrying out
| the program OF the war work council
She says:
there has been q little shooting on
the Nevsky, in the same block with
us, this morning. It aroused only as
much interest as q small dre. They
have promised all sorts Of excitement
but nothing happens.
~ha1 =
pied with getting our permissions from
the government, and tonight we have
received our drst two. Our nrst per-
mission Is for Miss Marcia o. Dun
FIVE pounds of tea from Japan. Tea is
Ia rubles a pound. 1t can only be
bought by standing in line and then a.
half pound at a time. They say that
| it will soon be 20 rubles a pound.
I'VE are freezing and IL ie still Sep
TENDER, and not supposed to be cold ae
| all. Part of the trouble is that We have
| not proper clothing and it is the trying
in-between season before fires are starts
ed. We upset all precedents yesterday.
and insisted upon having the huge old
Russian stove heated for our nrst suns
day afternoon at home.
Was Quite a Social Affair.
cit was quite social affair. Capt H.
terfeldt from Siberia, Maj. Thayer. head
or the ReQ cross commission OUT n0fvs
Countess Panin, one of the Young Mems
Christian Association. and my cousin.
Miss Brock brought some butter from
Siberia so that we could serve bread
and butter. We had hard knubby chunks
of fried brown bread. Miss Spencer said
We were like dogs gnawing a bone.
Il am writing this to let you know
how important it is that we know by
what way the next secretaries are COM
ing and where we can reach them by
telegram. because of the imperative
need of bringing in tea. When we have
| the association opened and the lunch
room running we shall have q carload
| of things that we shall need from ia
| pan, SO that the next group Of secre-
raries, If they come that way, must
bring a thousand pounds each.
las for our permissions we are to be
under the protection Of the ministry
gosudarstbennave priezriena,' which
means the ministry of social relief. We
are handing in today our list OF pro-
visions that we need for a month. AS
! for our association house the invaiids
are still refusing to move. so IL we do
not hear that they will go this week we
| must hunt elsewhere. We are trying
| to divide responsibility. Miss Spencer
| takes the entertaining and I take the
| lunchroon, and then there is the pub
| licity and the work with the girls. So
we have plenty to do for two heads and
four pairs of hands and feet in a coun-
try where it takes ten trys to arrive at
anything"