Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

SCIuler boy was WaiklDg nN the trightly lighted hostess house alone. He was depressed and weary and bit ter loneliness enveloped him in its shadow. There was no friend or kin in that house who waited for him No voice of welcome richer than gold: no smiling face brighter than the skies to greet him in that way that is given only to old home friends and loves to greet But he stopped and turned and entered that house crossing the threshold with uncertain and heavy step And those women within. women with hearts of gold, greeted him with a sincerity and kind ness that warmed his cold and starv- ing heart. They made him stay while They cheered him and heart ened him while be engaged a home cooked meal And the boy who en- tered there with the pinched face and lard eyes went away with wet eyes rcte to these hostess house women afterwards and told him just how hedly ke felt and how much they had telped him Theirs was the first friendly words and unselfish interest from woman he had since he lef- rome ten months before This boy will be a better. braver. bigger sol Cier boy from his visit to that hos tess house. Don't you think so?"
 The newspaper man did not thinL q all He was sure
 @To interest the girls. is the bis point" declared Mrs. Douglas. ~Onco we can gain their interest the res is easy, for the average girl wants 10 do the right and worth while thins These Patriotic League girls vii dc more good by their talk and example than all the regulations and appeals that ten thousand voices could pro mitigate. We have swimming pools knitting circles. victrolas, games anC educational works and exercises at cur houses carried on in such man Ter that they will grasp and hold any ambitious girl"
 At Camp Cody the Y. w has three buildings, a hostess and recreation | house and a cottage for girl worker Gnd visitors. Many of the Olde- women visiting there have helped a. the hostess house in the Red CrOsS room ct Red Cross WcTk for the bas- hospital near by. There is a siIrs clus ! at the recreatisrhouse here and iJ' ls 6oing a void of good.
 ] There is no denominatiOnal twis 7 CT connection with the Patriotic : ! eague. IL stands alone The '. W started it, but its own members ir each locality must guide it to sue ! cess. The only pledge necessary is to undertake to 10 better work and have high standards of honor and true loyalty to country. The Patrio- tic League also works for the sol 6;ers as a whole and not as m ind vidual. which is the safer and saneI way for young girls to do this good work. In the tragedies or soldier life the hostess house is a haven of res for those whO mourn. \ soldier ooi at Cody died and his old father an1 mother came from a lens distance to bring bis body home No one Tn the wide world but that same father ani mother can ever tell how much the ! hostess house and it's hostesses helT- ed them in that sad hour.
 Great singers. doctors, lecturers most all of them women. have como ! forward to help nightly in the N- W. war work in camp and munlIlo-, | factory and hostess house and re ! creation center. Mrs. Douglas calico the names Of a hundred Oi these great men and women. Wives of cat met nembers are working heart an soul in the Y. W. war council IT
 rich and the great of New York Cit {. have cast aside their mirth and then employments 10 give and to help an to do. Wonders have been done; mir acles remain vet to do. New Nor
 City has had so many calls lately declared enc Of the s1eat iinancier1 of the country. you can never rals- a million and a half here no mai ter how worthy your cause" He wa The first to congratulate us when We raised three hundred thousand nor than that sum.
 The Rockefeller Foundation gave over half a million, our greatest gilt
 Mrs. Rockefeller gave twenty-five thousand. Mir. and Mrs. A. C. James 1 rave one hundred and twenty-five thousand: Mir. and Mrs. F. r. Stotes' hury gave one hundred thousand