Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-05-22
Y. II. c, 4. opens
WORK IN ITALY
Tea and Club Rooms Opened TO.
American Women.
Miss Charlotte NIvsn, Director Of IT.,
Ian Work, Prepares For Influx Of
American Woman Students,

Italy is now included IN Jhe Wa
work IF the American y. ". = y
Miss Mabel Warner OF SaIina, Kan
and Chicago left Paris a few days aao
for Rome. where Size will Zoe In r'w
OF Hostess House for American girls
employed there by the American Rcd
Cross, the Embassy and the new Iu-
herculosis Commission. Miss Naner
has been director of the Y w, G. A
Hostess House at Brest, France
Miss Warner will open a tea room
and club rooms whore the American
women can gather for social times.
Rome is harborlng a refuge population
of about 10000 aud accommodations
are difficult to find.
The work in Rome was started as a
direct result Of the appeal of Miss
Charlotte Niyen, 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. ". G. A.
work in Italy include the maintenance
Of 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 ut 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
mcnt," Miss Niven said in discussing
her plans
Miss Nlyen has asked the American
Y. W. c. \. TO aid the Italian Assoc,a-
ton in establishing center perhaps
Mt Gen1a. with two American socre.
taries with physical and recreatioua.
training, To act rs training school for
Italian women. In connection with Il
her plan would include Hostess House
for girls passing through The ci.E OF
employed there Such a center D.d,a
become eventually lie center a., aH
Y. W. C. A. work 10 Italy, both ltdliau
and foreign
In her formal appeal for help for the
Unione Christana Dele Giovanni (thc
Italiaa name for Young Women
Christian Association Miss Niven has
emphasized two facts, the poorly OF
the Italian Association on the ore hand
aud the need and opportunity on the
other for an American program Ia
Italy Al the present time.
Miss Niven'S favorite way OF Illus
tratlng the friendiness ~ the ItnliaD
woman to America is by telling the
story of the Italian mother who said
she had taken down the picture Of the
Madonna which had hung for many
years over her bed and was putting In
Its place one Of President Wilson.
'In our work in the Unione we have
lacked trained leadership as well as
the material resources to give such
training We have had no means to
buy modern equipment. Consequently
we have not the visible results Of
American and British work.
Feeble as our work may he, 1t Is
not useless. Many girls in all parts Of
Italy have told us how much the
Unione meant In their lives Italian
girls are touchingly grateful for the
smallest efforts. They respond eager
~ 10 friendliness.
"There is no other agency doing IN
Italy what the Association Is trying to
do"
Miss Niven he's spent the past seven
years In work with the Italian wO-
men, starting as director Of u hostel, or
boarding home, for Italian. women stu.
dents at Florence She is an Ameri-
can from New York, where she was
one time head of the Christadora Set
tlement House.
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