The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-01-24
Y. W. C. A. WORKER.
is BIG SISTER
Industrial Woman's Service Club
Brings Home TO Girls in New
Factory Community.
BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER
Club Stands fer Hot Lunches, Clean
Towels, Comfortable Cots, Parties,
Games and Recreation to
Girl Workers.
Katherine Holland Brown.

<kN NJ name Is May Isabel Cuin6-
MI han. am eighteen years
old, and work in a big fs,e-
tory in Michigan. More than -four
hundred other girls work there too.
/ don't dim TO tell you about our jobs
You can read about our work In the
labor department reports. But / do
aim 10 tell you about our Big Sister
and Of The things she has done for rs.
''To begin with. our factory toisn
isn't town at all. It's huge harm
OF buildings stuck dowsa ID The col2ss i
nineteen miles from nowhere. fHFEre
IS "a railroad siding, station the size
OF a dry goods box, seven farnihouses
and one general store and p0stottieef
combined--it's pretty near as big as Il.
bot tamale stnnd. And that's ALI No
Main street, DO banks nor stores, no
iee-eream parlors. not one solitary
movie show, In all those nineteen
miles Lonesome? It's the ragged
edge If desolation, that's what It Is.
II was one of HE first carload Of.
forty girls that was shipped UP from
Chicago The factory was swarmiIg
with workmen putting IN the Raehin-
cry. and we girls conidn't begin work
for day OF SO, so we began hunting
places TO eat and sleep. That was q
trlfle that the employment folks hadn't
Thought Of The workmen were sleep.
ing and eating in tie cars that had
brought them there, backed on the
siding Orr nniy chance for beds and
food was with those seven farnhouses,
50 ne marched straight To the farmers
wives and asked FOR board and ROOM
Farmers Wives Hos2itahie.
"I,will say that thosswomen were kind
and hosphable. They axed, IT Up be-
tween them to feed usyfertg girls, and
they gave us good food. 40. But for
rooms, that was the question. They
could each spare one room. That
meant sleep fise or six in room But
right then along came the boss of the.
factory aud told US the machinery was
ready and he'd expect rs girls 10 vert.
double shifts, night and day.
{ lie wanted 10 make use Of every
minute, you see But that gaye lis our
chance as to sleeping. We iixca | NJ
9ish the farm folks that wesse sSs.ie
double shifts and sleep donbies s.szs.S..:ss
100.
So we planned IL Three girls
would use room from eight at hight
till six The ncxt morning. Then they'd
hustle over 10 the factory. and lie
three girls who'd been. warkjng ali
night would take The uom and sleep
TN afternoon. 1t wasn't any hixuri-
ous slunaher, believe rue. Ihc farm
women had SO few sheets and pillow
cases that most Of Us went without.
AM towels Wefe scarce as diamonds
% blackberry bushes. AS "a soap
well, the general store kept yellow bar
soap, that kind that Ks So fEii &c resin
yan could use II TO call, Il ship sat
we made out tn the next three car
leads OF girls came rolling IN. Then
We went most distracted. These nnsr
girls had TO sleep IN tents ana In tile
cars that The workmen had abandoned
by this Time. and they were lucky IL
they got straw tick and blanket.
'asy this time II had turned raw cold.
and maybe you know what late an
.tnmn Nights In Michigan feel like. To
esp the climax the farm folks cut
down On food, and for week Ii was
potatoes ana beans and mighty few
beans at thak.
Along Came Miracle.
Bus. sight when we were about
ready 10 gut our Jobs ana beat 1t for
homo, along came a miracle. Two
quiet, businessslke women climhea
down from the aastbound trim one
Sa0faInS. Vita them came eight work
men. carleAa Of sransliag ana tar
naper, smother carload III cots ana
blankets and pillows ana sheets and
towels brand new blankets and beds
think Of the glory 0f that ..-3Ild
bushels of dishes and rciis 81 oilelofls
and enough hslrlap 10 carpet the couai-
ny. lou went believe me when telf
scu tllat In ten DAYS their woFknen
mad scantiins a. d ii naper slack ;
put np and bnfistp hacked 8f0f mo
walls, and the j. NJ g. seefssary
and her helper had set ~, b5sfd 5asiIe !
and coffee kettles ard were serving rs
ssse gtsHdest hot lunches evcrE aaF
Ard b4sk behind TIE burIap scsefns
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