Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-28
Z. w. c. A. NEWS.
New Home at Twenty-hfth and
Market Streets Now Open and
Affords Fine Quarters.

The new home of the Y. W. &. A. at
Twcntv-hfth and Market streets Was
opened and occupied as q boarding home
for girls the latter part of last week
number If improvements we're made
and the interior was refnIshed.
Now the upheaval incident to moving
has been dispensed with and life goes
smoothly on for the u. W. girls IN these
very lovely new quarters
The house Is comfortably furnished
and the girls VINO i've there are enthusI-
astic about their new home.
The parlor ls furnished with new
leather furniture and q taupe coiored
velvet carpet IS on the floor. The glrI
.lttlngroom, which faces the rlver, 3
furnished with wicker upholstered with
bright cretonne. The readInuoom,
which Is particular Joy, and the meeting
rooms, are furnished in mission style.
Large roomy bookcases give promise Of
q home sized library which Will expand
as time goes on.
The diningroom Is IN the basement and
IS newly painted with light green walls
and cherry finished woodwork. The
meals, according 70 one girls account,
are the best ever, and she claims Il II
was not for the longer walk 10 work,
fatty degeneration would oe the result
This boarding home is to be for per-
manent dwellers only. TransIents who
wish 10 stay IN this city under the wing
Of the Y " G. A. will be accommodated
at Ninth and Shipley streets.
Mrs Lewis q. Thompson Is chairman
Of the house committee, and a meeting
was held at the new quarters. yesterday.
Everyone expressed gratIhcatIon at the
successful working out OF all the plans.
Mrs Elizabeth H. Wine IS house
secretary and veritable mother TO the
girls she Is Presiding over everything
from the dinner table, evening prayers
and heartaches 10 good times and mild
rough house, she has endeared herself
10 all dwellers at the old home, 1901
Market street. and no doubt will do the
same at Twenty-hfth and Market.
STATE ORGANIZATION.
The perfecting Of the organization OF
State and county committees OF the
Y W c. A. War Work Council is rapidly
taking place and meeting for representa-
tives from every county viii be held later.
II will probably be Dover or Wilmington.
Mrs Robert l.. Ferguson OF Dover has
consented to be the chairman for Kent
county and Mrs Lewis Mustard Of Lewcs
for Sussex county There will be four
or FIVE other women on the committee
10 be appointed by the county chairman
Their names will be announced later.
Mrs William X du Pont is the chairman
for New Castle county.
Every town IN Delaware Is to have a
representative on the war work commit
tee. 80 far only those in Sussex county
have been announced. They are as
follows Georgetown, Mrs. Laura Lay
ton; Ellendale Mrs. Harry Jester; Reho-
both Beach, Mrs Sara L Short; Laurel
Miss Jennie Novel; Milton Mrs. G. c.
Naples; Dagsboro, Mrs. Grace t. Hop
kins: Stockley, Mrs Ida +. Goshe;
MiIlsboro, Mrs Blaine Adkins; Seaford.
Mrs Ella c. Emory; Greenwood, Mrs
Abe Records, Rehoboth, Miss Elizabeth
Lyndael Nassau, Mrs. Mildred Carey
Midway, Mrs Hannah Thompson
Robins, Mrs Sadie Lank and Mrs
Unic Wilson, Lewes, Mrs, Leana Tam
many
Organization will soon be in such shape