The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1918-10-31
A BIT OF HOME
WITHIN THE CAMP


structlon, attractiycly planned, with
wide ycroudas and homclike aspect.
outside are hanging the flags-the
Stars and Stripes, which must soon
be taken in as II Is nearly sunset, and
another flag hearing little triangle
of blue and the letters Y. w. G. A.
II Is fall afternoon and the air Is a
bit sharp. Through the front windows
of the house the woman approaching
up the walk can see the cheerful glow
of an open fireplace. There is the
sound OF piano and some one Is
singing
The woman, who is slight and young
and tired ookIng, puts her heavy suit
case don on the walk ana shifts the
baby She carrying 10 the other arm.
She lIstc.- a minute, then picks up the
luggage .l walks bravely up to the
front doc. Some one has heard her
coming arI Is there to meet her. Some
one AWAY is in places like this. The
door is ll'Jwn open and kind wOm-
ans yOlc says: "Oh, do come in and
rest. Let me take the baby" The
baby is passed over and the stranger,
worn from Il long journey, tired and
sad, is given the welcome which only
the y. W. G.. y. hostcsses know how to
give.
She cyr aims that she has come TO
see John before he leaves for the
front 81. has been saving her money
f,r tr,,.,I...., ,yn,pens puI buU .pinp
to surprise him. John has never seen
the baby, and now maybe he never
will, for She has discovered that John
has just LETT on Il two days furlough
TO surprise her. Before She could get
Il train back to her home Johns fur
Tough will lave expired and he will be
on his way back to camp. The little
mother does not know how to meet the
situation and tears of fatigue and dis
appointment begin TO flow.
"Wcil, that's too bad" says the SYM
pathetic y. W. G. a. worker. "But
cheer mp. You can just stay here for
couple of days. Wen send wire
to John 40. the first place his train
! stops and Tell him to take the next
train bacs lie can enjoy his furloush
I here"
This IS lone ana the little family
has glorious day Of it.
The Young Womcn'S Christian ASSOC
cation las established o. hostess
houses OF his character for American
soldiers AMI sailors ana their families.
In this brief bulletin OF news lies one
of the mos, potent factors in the win
ming of this war. our boys are fight
ing for their homes. The Y. w. G. A
with its hostess work in this country
and in France Is helping to keep the
ideal of American home life con
stantly before the men who are pro.
tecting II. These men had to go away
from their individual homes, but there
Is home which follows them-a place
where they can go when they are OF
duty and meet their families and rest
There Is q room In every y. w. Z. A
hostess house with IL real fireplace ir
1t and domestic hearth. There are
chairs with cushions on them; thu
china is not of the iron-bOund buckle
|
of all the boys say, there are nic
women to talk To. No boy in CAM
, | would hesitate to ask his mother o
sister or the girl he thinks most of I
. meet him at y. W. G.. \. house, fo
, he knows that the women she will Sc
! there are of the right kind. The ycg
fact that 1t is known that there Is
: real, honey place near each camp M
thori2rd by the war department an
, presided over by dlgniied and refine
, women. has served very largely to di
Q courage the other type Of woman an
;. keep her away from the men she 70
I merry prcyed upon.
a I'll" y. W. G. y. houses are not @
V tabll .loa with any view To inurliiI
/. class ines. however, although many I
I the hu,tesSes who assist led lives
!. grcatr.J ease and luxury before t!
: war. Democracy rules at the sign
It the lu.o Blue Triangle,
h a story is told ot great merchant
q wife hose Individual fortune noun
II to IN. million mark. This lady Is
n member of one Of The y. w. &. \. COZ
mittrp- ana on one occasion she w
1, hclpiu- IN the cafeteria of n hoSte
le house 40 the Great Lakes naval trni
n. inG station. \ little shopglrl who HI
d II "dpy of" from her work In the has
~ mcnt of the great store owned hy t
le ! Y. W. g. A. workers husband ANA W
st had como TO see her sailor brother, "
10 in State street hurry for scrvi
.. She sharply ordered the mcrchan
A. wife 10 'look alive with these for
mr. grille
o. The lady addressed as "grlie' qu
or humhly saw to it that the pile of fol
re- was rrplenished. Then she went oN
ut and talked to the girl, helped her
ry locate her brother and sent her aW
or happy The shopgrl never knew Il
she had been talking to her employ'
in wife.
ar, Their are two hostess houses at
4. Great Lakes station, and ii is "
,l, darCul s.. rht In 500 Tho crowds of W.