The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-23

from France and England, and Po-
lish courte who came to appeal in
behalf of Polish women.
In speaking of the council, Mrs.
Walker said: I'VE had reports from
hostess house work, training camp
communities, war industry centers and
foreign speaking communities, thru
which foreign women in America are
being reached. Letters from workers
in Moscow and Petrograd were read.
i Miss Betty Scott of New York told of
the housing and food plants for wom-
en- munitions workers in st. Etienne
and Lyons, and the personal work
among these women in helping them
to bear their sorrows and losses. She
told of woman 10 years old whose
hair and skin were turned yellow by
the chemicals in which she worked.
That woman had six sons in the army,
four CT them killed, one a prisoner in
Germany, and the last one not To-
Gated, her home had been bombarded,
and at her advanced age she had
been obliged to learn a new business
by which to earn her living. The
work of the Y. w. c. A. in France is
cooperative with the Y NJ c. A and
Red Cross, at huts, base hospitals,
serving as social centers for American
nurses. Independent housing and So
cial work for American women in
Paris centers in the hostess house.
Workers in France declare that the
touching confidence with which
France looks to America now is as
simple and trusting as a chield'S be-
lief in a fairy godmother. All hopes
are on America, and these women be-
lieve that our nation will not fail the
world now"
Mrs Walker and Miss Sweet, who
are two of the local directors of the
hostess house at Army City attended
the hostess house committee meetings.
made the report for the west central
field, which includes the work in Kan
sas. The conference discussed the
work of recruiting and training work
ers. the readjustment of the forces of
the association to meet present de-
mands and an adequate religious pro-
gram. Addresses were made by DIR.
williams Adams Brown on THE
World Challenge to Women and by
DIR. John Douglass Adams, just re-
| turned from the front, on THE New
! Democracy, the Flower of Chris
tianity."
| Conferences also were held on
finance and publicity. city work. small
town and country work. and a report
of the Russell Sage Foundation on
! finance federation was given.
An arrangement was discussed for
| the installation of associations in COM
munities which have no organization.
! ne giving TOT the war Iund mas
stimulated the interest of people in
| local associations. In India and Aus
tralia that need has been met by a
| correspondence membership and visits
by the members for two days sessions
at the association centers.
x X
The annual meeting of the State
! FEDERATION of Women's clubs will be
! held in March this year in Salina. The
date is March 16. The meeting is held
early this year to appoint committees
for the biennial convention to be held
in May at Hot Springs. Arkansas.
| X
The matrons' class in interior dec
grafton will meet Wednesday morning
at $50 o'clock in the Washburn art
studio. After next week. the class
will meet Friday mornings.
Mrs. F. w Watson is hostess at a
meeting of Western Sorosis this after
noon.
| The literature department of the
| Woman's club will meet at 9:3C
o'clock Thursday morning at the Y
w. c. A. Mrs. Newell Abrahams will
read Ma eterlinck's play, ''Sistel
! Beatrice" one of his most charming
tho not best-known. dramas, which
demonstrates the religious influence ir
the drama, and intended to illustrate
the difference between human and di.
vine forgiveness.
their knitting with them. and al