The Monticellonian., 1919-06-20
6, \. 02EHS N0AK N ITALY Tea and Club Rooms 0pe1ed for American Women.
  Miss Charlotte Niven, Director of Ita'. ian Work, Prepares for Influx of American Woman Students.

Italy is now included in the war work of the American | W, (. \.
 Miss Mabel Warner of Salina, kana and Chicago left Paris d few days ago for Rome, where she will he i'll charge of a Hostess House for American girls employed there by the American Red Cross the Embassy and the new lu- berculosis Commission Miss Warner has been director Of the Y. ". .. A. Hostess House at BreSt France.
 Miss Warner will open tea room and club rooms where fhe American women can gather for social tHaes. Rome is harboriHg a refuge population of about 10000 and accommodations are difficult td find.
 The work in Rome WIS started aa g direct result of the appeal pf Miss Charlotte NlYen. one of the National Y. W. C. A. secreiaries in Italy. wh9 is spending few months in France as advisor in the French work.
 Miss Niven's dreams of Y W c. A. work in Italy include the maintenance of a residence for non.ltalian wqmen, who, she feels, will come 10 Italy in great numbers after the war to stady music and art.
 "I believe at this time such q project is particularly important because Wo- men from other countries should be encouraged 10 come to Italy to realaee the great numbers of German women who flooded Italy in the past, many of them paid agents of their govern ment,f Miss Niyen said in discussing her plans.
 Miss Niven has asked the American Y. W. c. A. to aid the Italian Assoeia- ton in establishing d center. perhaps Ut Genoa. with two American seere- taries, with physical and reereational training. to aet as training school for Italian women In connection with it her plan would inciadoa Hostess ii9ase . for girls passing through the citE CT employed there Such q center would become even.ualfx inc center for all Y. W. C. A. work in Italy, both Italian ara foreign.
 n hea formal appeal fer help fer the tfn.enes Ghr!siana belte GiG4ani enc lsalia name for Young Aomea's 'hfistian Assaeatien) Miss Nhen has emphasized tWo facts, the poverty of the Italian Association on the one fsnl and the need and opportunity on the other for an American program in Italy at lhe present. time.
 Miss Nivens fasorite way Of illus trating the friendlineSs of tine Italian woman to America is by telling tae story ef the Italian mother who said she had taken down the picture of the Madonna which had tens for many years over he. bed and was putting in it's place ono of President Wilson.
 Tn orr work in the tRione We have lacked trained leadership as well aS the material resaorees to sivo such trainnr. We have had no means to buy modern equipment Consequently We have not the visi;lle results oi American and British work
 "Eeeble as our work nav Inc, t is not useless Mnny girls in all parts of Italy have told Us how much. the Unione meant in their lives It1lian girls are touellngly grateful for the smallest efforts. They respond eager ly to friendlineSs
 'srhere is no other agency doing in Italy what the Association is trying to do
 Miss Niven has spent thc rast seven years in work vith the Italian wo- men. starting as director of q hostel or boarding homo, for ItaGah women stu- cents at Florence. She is au &nerj- can from New York, whore she Wus unsstime head of the Ghristadora sci ue.oent House.