Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26
GIRLS IN NEW SERVICE
FIND PENN|MAN UTOPIA
Workers in Big Munition Plant
Pleased With Treatment
and Town.
ALL CoNvENIENCEs PROVIDED
Company Careful to Maintain Cont
forts and TO Make Surroundings as
Near as Possible to Idcal-Beuch
Parties Frequent.

SO many Richmond young women
are happily working at Penniman. and
30 many more are thinging Penniman
Doth as means Of turning their time
70 good account and of helping in the
gigantic task OF winning the war that
icnninian news nowadays is Richmond
news.
Tho girls clubhouse at Penniman."
says Y. w C. a. war worker. where
the huge Du Pont munition factory
rs now being completed. is as important
In the lives Of women munition work
crs employed there rs are the hostess
houses TO the soldiers in the military
camps.
The onc-story building has very
%lde 'front.' with a porch running all
the way across. The cafeteria is at one
emu the gymnasium and shower room
IN between. Easy chairs. writing tables.
Vlctrola and pianola make II the most
attractive. homelike place In the plant"
Pcnniman Is of the new inuni-
ZION cantonments in which. at the re-
quest Of the government. the Y. w.
{. a has taken charge of the rccrca-
nSins in the dormitorics in July. and
the number was TO be Increased to
100. a girl pays 81 a week for half Il
double room. The dormitorieS have
every possible convenience, even TO
electric nat-irons and electric sewing
machines The girls eat at the big
cafeteria in the clubhouse.
six days week. The Office force is
paid from $40 upward a month. and
The girls In the operating division re-
The inhabitants OF this new village
arc wholly dependent upon their own
old town Of williamsburg, seven miles
away. offers little in the way OF di-
version. so tho y. NJ 6. a. and the
Y. W. c. a. have the responsibility OF
all the sports, from a threc-lcgged race
on Fourth OF July TO weekly Sunday
school for tho children living in the
brand new cottages OF this brand new
Industrial War Service Center is
The name OF the girls club. The use
OF the building is free. but girls be-
longing TO any ono of the five corps
Into which activities arc divided pay
rs cents month. The club is the
reception room for entertaining men
callers. and all men are shooch home
by tho girls themselves Al il o'clock.
The club mas - house council Sc
Iectcd from among the girls. The va
ship. house scrvic" and inspirational.
Each committee has "A member from
The upper and from The lover floor
tories arc fu!, this viii give each
committee one member 10 look aricr
the interests OF that committee among
fifty girls living about her.
GETS NICER AND MORE
INTERESTING EVERY DAY
Twenty representative women of the
community form an indus,rial commit
the club. They help win entertain
mcnts and accompany girls on bats
'Pcnninan gets nicer and more IN
tercsting every day. writes Miss jean
nette vi. Cam pbell. the war work coun-
Gil worker on duty there. our mill
tary drll corps il growing weekly.
Lieutenant Moser brings an assistant.
VINO takes the beginners and gets them
started on one side Of the gym, while
he has the older ones on the other
side. They are beginning TO go out OF
the gym now into the open TO dri!l.
leap bitches. climb fences, etc. They
are finding il great sport and we are
looking forward TO a khaki uniform
soon They drill three times a week.
and at present there are siNtE-hEc
in the corps.
we have a beach party every week.
and fnd IL most restful and relaxing
Some Of us wear hatnlng SUITS Win
a MILDLY and skirt over them. and when
we get there We take off the MILDLY
and Skirt and go in. while some Of the
others make the fire on the beach put
,be coffee pots over, and fry the pa
con and eggs. When the signal for
and coffee never tasted more delicious.
some OF the girls cant take OF their
nne clothes and high heels and pay
~ vet. but those Of us who do. IKE II
,nd hone that some day they VIII see
~hn, they're missing. and invest III
Something khaki and good umey
..If our vcspcr services Keep on grow
ing. our fifty hymn books VIII De 700
feS. Last night we had the best meet
na1c with all their might; instead OF
;nEEinr / played the middle. and made
1nmch more noise than | could nave
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