The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-07-18
7. w. c, 4. OPENS
WORK IN ITALY
Tea and Club Rooms Opened 70
American Women.
j. Niles Charlotte Nlven, Director Of ltaE
Ian Work, Prepares. for Influx CT
American Woman Students.

Italy Is, now included in the wa-
work of the American wv. c. a.. s.-
Miss Mabel Warner Of Salina, Kan,
and Chicago left Paris a fe% days ago
for Rome, where she will be in charge
Of Hostess House for American giris
employed there by the American Red
Cross, the Embassy and the new Tu-
berculosis Commission. Miss, Warner
has been director Of the Y. VIC. "A
Hostess House at Brest, France.
Miss Warner will open 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.
Yhe work in Rome was started as a
direct result Of the appeal Of Miss
Charlotte Niven, one Of the National
Wv C. A. secretaries of italy, who Is
spending O few months in France as
advisor in the French work.
Miss Niven's dreams of Y. W. GA.
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.
81 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
7. w. C. A. to aid the, italian Associa'
ton in establishing a center, perhaps
at Genoa, with two American secreta
ries, with physical and recreationa
training, to act as training school fol
italian women. In connection with II
her plan would include Hostess HOUSE
for girls passing through the city OF
employed there. Such a center would
become eventually the center for al
Y. w. c. A.,work in Italy both Italian
and foreign.
In her formal appeal|fo help for the
Unione Cristiana Dele Giovanni 1.-THE
Italian name for Young Women's
tChristian Asseciation) Miss Niven has
emphasized two facts, the poverty OF
the Italian Association on the one hand
and the need and opportunity on the
other for an American program II
Italy at the present time.
Miss Niven's favorite way Of Illus
trating the friendliness Of the Italian
woman to America is by telling the
story Of the Italian mother who sale
she had taken down. the picture OF The
Madonna which had hung for many
years over her bed nd was putting ii
its place one of President Wilson.
Sin our work in the Unione we have
lacked trained leadership as well a
the material resources to give sucf
training. We have had no means t.
buy modern equipment. Consequent,
| we have not the visible results OF
Arnerican;an British work.
Feeble as our work may be, it II
| not useless Many girls in all parts OF
italy ha told US how much the
| Cnione meant in their lives. Italian
girls are touchingly grateful for tht
smallest efforts. TheyTeyRond eagerly
| to frieHdliness.
There is no other agency doing III
Italy what the association is trying tt
do.
| Miss Nixen has spent the past sever
years In work with the Italian women
starting as director Of hostel, OF
boarding home for italian women stu
dents. at Florence. She is an Ameri
can from New York, where she wa.
,onetime head of the Christadora Set
Element House.