Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-03-06
Y. W. C. A. OPENS
WORK IN ITALY
Tea and Club Rooms Opened for
American Women.
Miss Charlotte NIven, Director Of ltsi.
Ian Work, Prepares for Influx Of
American Woman Students.

Italy Is now included In the war
+ work Of the American Y. w. O. A.
4 Miss Mabel Warner Of Salina, Kan,
and Chicago left Paris few days ago
for Rome, where she will be In charge
Of Hostess House for American girls
employed there by the American Red
Cross, the Embassy and the new Tu-
berculosls Commission. Miss Warner
has been director Of the Y. w. O, A.
Hostess House at Brest, France.
I Miss Warner will open a tea room
and club rooms where the American
women can gather for social times.
Rome is harboring a refuge population
of about 10000 and accommodations
are difficult to find.
The work in Rome. was started as 4
direct result of the appeal of Miss
Charlotte Niven, one of the National
Y. w. C. A. secretaries in Italy, who Is
spending a few months in France as
advisor in the French work.
Miss Niven's dreams Of Y. W, @. A,
work in Italy include the maintenance
of a residence for non-Italian women,
who, she feels, will come to Italy In
great numbers after the war to study
music and art.
II believe at this time such project
is particularly important because wo-
men from other countries should be
encouraged to come to Italy to replace
the great numbers of German women
who flooded Italy in the past, many Of
them paid agents OF their govern
ment," Miss Niven said In discussing !
her plans,
Miss Niven has asked the American
Y. w. c. A. to aid the Italian Associa-
tfon in establishing center, perhaps
at Genoa, with two American secre-
taries, with physical and recreat ional
to act as training school for
italian women. In connection with II
Ter plan would include Hostess House
ror girls passing through, the city OF
there. Such q center would
become eventually the center for all
7. w. O. A. work In Italy, both Italian
md foreign.
In her formal appeal for help for the
Jnione Christiana Dele Giovanni (the
Italian name for Young Women's /
christian Association Miss Niven has
Emphasized two facts, the poverty of
he Italian Association on the one hand
nd the need and opportunity on the
ther for an American program in
tally at the present time.
Miss Niyen's favorite way of Illus
rating the friendliness Of the italian
to America is by telling the :
tory of the Italian mother who said
ladonna which had hung for many
ears over her bed and was putting In
S place one of President Wilson.
"In our work in the Unione we have
lcked trained leadership as well as
lie material resources to give such
aiming. We have had no means to
NY modern equipment Consequently
e have not the visible results Of
and British work.
'Feeble as our work may De, II IS
Dt useless. Many girls in all parts Of
ally have told us how much the
niope meant In their lives. Italian
rls are touchingly grateful for the
nallest efforts. They respond eager
to friendliness
ally what the Association is trying to
J."
Miss Niyen he's spent the past seven
ears in work with tile italian wo-
en-, starting as director Of hostel, or
,arding home, for Italian women stu
,iIts at Florence She is an Ameri
IN from New York, where she was 4
re time head of the Christadora Set 4
sfneht House -, d