The sun., 1918-11-10
WAR SERVICE CENTER for
GIRLS MAINTAINED By
T.w:c.A. at BLOOMFIELD Me-.

taken to camp. nor what the Govern
ment would do for them. Further
more those who could not speak Eng
glish had difficulty in finding their
men in camps. The 7. w. c. A. put
foreign speaking hostesses in the
camps.
At one camp the secretary found the
Captain "distraught with his problem"
There were 1870 non-English speaking
men, varying from a university grad
uate from Persia who did not want to
be q cook to Poles and Hungarians
from the heart of Chicago's foreign
district. At Fort Riley an irish Lieu
tenant had demanded the schoo.room
for his non-English speaking soldiers
These included Armenians. Poles, b.
hemians, Serbians, Greeks, Syrians,
Hungarians, Russians, Belgians and
Italians.
The war work programme OF the
division of foreign born women for
this second year Of the war is organ
lied under six separate heads They
| are:
1. Promotion Of the international
institute field.
Q. International information and
service bureau.
8. Camp and community work.
4. Reconstruction bureau.
8. Recruiting bureau.
6. Research and information dc.
partment
The work which has the most gen.
raj appeal to-day. when the heart Of
e whole world il in France, Is the
ar work in Europe.
For French Women Workers.
At the request Of the French Gov
eminent secretaries have been sent to
France to open "Foyers des Allies" in
he munition centres throughout the
COUNTRY. In Paris the Hotel Petrograd
Is serving as a hostess house and as a
hotel for women workers In France.
| The French Government provides
physical necessities and good nourish-
ng food for women munition workers,
but social work, as We have II, was I'M
known to French employers. The
"Foyers des Allies" supply this need
for healthy recreation. Some foyers
ire housed in barracks and others in
hastily built houses
Hotels have been opened for Amer
lean women at port cities and large
| American army centres. Others have
been opened for American Signal
Corps girls. Wherever the Signal
Corps girls are stationed the Y. w.
c. A. opens house for them. The
hostess plans social affairs and recrea-
tons for the girls.
Huts for the use of Red Cross nurses
at base hospitals have been made
honey and attractive by Y. w. c. A.
secretaries. The closer to the firing
line hospital is the greater necessity
for recreation to take the minds of
nurses away from the constant trag-
edy with which they deal.
One masquerade which had been
planned for ten days was broken UP
by the arrival OF a consignment of
wounded soldiers, the first to reach
this particular hospital in days. The
soldiers were received by doctors and
nurses dressed as clowns. hariequins
and Marie Antoinettes in rooms filled
with great bowls of red peoples and
blue cornfiowers. There was no time
for a change Of costume.
When peace is declared these nurses
will have to stay in France to care
for wounded men not able to be
brought home. Y. w C. A. huts will
be needed more than ever then TO keep
up the courage of tired, homesick
nurses. American Signal Corps girls
cannot come home at once. THERE'S a
vast amount OF cleaning up work
which will fall to the American Army
, and these girls will need to stay at
. | their suitchbOard6 Y w c. A. hotels