The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-04-11
Y. ". 6. 4. OPENS
WORK IN ITALY
Tea and Club Rooms Opened for
American Women.
Miss Charlotte Niven, Director o. itai-
Ian Work, Prepares for Influx -
American Woman Studenta

Italy is now included I'm the war
work of the American Y. w. g. A.
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-
berculosis Commission. Miss Warner
has been director Of the Y. w. G. A
Hostess House at Brest, France.
Miss Warner will open a tea room
and club rooms where the American
women can gather for social times
Rome is harboring refuge population
OF about 10000 and accommodat tions
are difficult to find
The work in Rome was started as .
direct result OF the appeal of Miss
Charlotte Niven, one OF the National
Y. w. G. A. secretaries In Italy, who is
spending n few months in France as
advisor in the French work
Miss Niven's dreams Of Y. w. G. A.
work i'm 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.
81 believe at this time such project
is particularly important because NO
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
ment." Miss Niven said In discussing
her plans.
Miss Nivea has asked tho American
Y. w. q. A. to aid the italian Assocta-
toa IN establishing . center perhaps
at Genoa, with I've American secre-
tartes. with physical and recrea tional
training. to act ~ q training school for
Italian women. In connection with II
her plan would include Hostess House
fer girls passing through tho city or
employed there. Such q centor would
kecsms eventually the center fer all
Y. W. C. A. work n Tsaty. both italian
aal fsretga.
In her formal appeal for help for the
Unions Christians Deiie Giovaai (ths
ftahaa name fer YeunG .wsasn's
Christian AssOctattsa) Miss Niven has
en,phs sized two facts. ne poverty ef
the Italian AssocIati"a sa the QUE hand
aAd the need and opportunity GA the
sf4sr for an American pro<ran -
Haly at ~ present time.
No. Mvsa's faZortts way Of ill.s-
-.
wsoaa to Anertca IL by telling Ne
story q ne Italian mother whS anld
sAs hal tatea dew. the picture sf -
NaAs,aa Which had hung for naaRg
years ever her bed aad was pottfaG -
~ ptaca sac I PrcSdeat wnsoa.
"a. eur wsrt Ia the UIisae We have
leaked srsileA leaderskiS As weN a.
ne material ressurces b give sSch
HstHiss. We have had Nc meNss to
10y nsder. equip.eat. Consesue. t4y
va, have as the visible resxlts q
Asericaa sad British wsrt
Feeble ~ our work nAy Ne, II -
let useless MsaS girls In all parts Of
Italy have told - hSw much the
Usisne aeaat In te&r lives Itaiian
sins ars tsvchiagN grateful for the
ssrsHen exsrts They respo.d eager
~ to friea dis sos
There 10 Ro Other agency doing in
Italy what the Asssctatisr is trytaG to
de-"
Mis- Mvea hrs spent the past seven
years In work with the italian wo-
men, sta rttnx as director Of q hostel, or
boarding home. for Italian women stu
dents At Florence. She Ia an Ameri-
can from New York, where she was
cue time head Of the Christsdora Set
Element House.