Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-02-12
Y. W. c. A. MEET
SUNDAY NIGHT

| Sunday evening at the union service IN
charge of the Young Women's Christ
ian association. The Ministerial as
sociation took charge of the opening
and closing service, Rev. G.. E. Weed
introducing the speakers.
Miss Leila Getman the local secre-
tary told of the popular use OF the
rooms and gave snatches of converse
ton that she has heard from different
people concerning the Y. w. G. A.
Miss Getman stated that two-thirds of
her time is to be spent in Baraboo
and that the big summer program will
be the summer camp.
Miss Ethel Troy, state, town and
country secretary for the state of Wis
consin, stated that in being asked TO
invest your most precious possessions,
your girls, in the Young Women's
Christian association, you would nat
urally wish to know its credentials.
Founded over sixty years ago by a
small group of influential women ito
pray for girls" it quickly found the
answer to prayer in hundreds of con-
secrated hands and hearts providing
homes, training classes, recreation and
service of all kinds for girls in Eng
land girls in America and now we can
almost say girls ALL THE WORLD
AROUND dream soon to be full
filled.
She told many interesting incidents
of individual cases in which the as
ISOLATION has proved that it is
friend to a girl wherever she be-"
There was little Italian girl in Cali
fornia who through the association
York. and the small town girl found
friendless and penniless. in the city
and the Texas girl who found herself
lonely in your own Baraboo and was
delighted to find the Y. w. G.. A. 81
knew" she said l wouldn't be a
stranger here"
She told of the International Insti-
tutes and the work they are doing to
bind again the broken ties in these
foreign homes and to plant the seeds
VI AUlCI lCftA .C1LIASl1GHlQ VI tAO
hundreds of industrial girls, who are
organized in clubs discussing What
we as Christians should do, about the
present labor crisis" of the Industrial
camp with its great cali each summer
'Out Of your cage
Come out Of your cage
And take your soul on pilgrim
age"
She touched upon the work still
going in Europe--the new calls from
the orient and ended her speech with
an announcement of Y. w. C. A. week
in Baraboo, week asking for funds,
membership and service for your To-
cal and the National Y. w. c. A. Her
plea was for a deeper gift than moll-
ey--a gift of faith and daily prayer
for the girlhood of your town and the
world
Mrs. A. A. Prerez of the PHILIPPINES,
who with her husband are attending
the University of Wisconsin prepar-
ing to return to the PHILIPPINES to
help with the social and political re-
work in that country,
spoke in a most interesting way of
the women Of the PHILIPPINES.
Mrs. Prerez stated that twenty /,
years ago when the PHILIPPINES wer4
taken over by the United States, 900
Of their people were illiterate, could
neither read nor write. The popula- .
ton has increased during this time |
from five millions to eleven and one
half millions.
It was specially interesting to the |
women present to hear that the Fill |
pino woman holds the pocketbook.
When friend husband receives his !
pay envelope he Immediately takes it
home unopened, to his wife. She
does the family bookkeeping and also
the family buying, if the husband
needs new suit of clothes or articles |
Of clothing, the wife accompanies him
and helps him choose what he should |
wear. If only American women had |
that opportunity perhaps we could do
way with some of those awful shades
Of blues and browns that are some
times thrust upon the poor helpless
men.
Up to few years ago Filipino I
woman must not be seen unaccompani-
ed on the street. Now they partici |
pate in the Red Cross Drive, march in
parades and there is a bill before the
government now for women suffrage.
They now have women doctors, pro-
fessors in colleges. In fact two-thirds
of the educators in the Phillinines are
women.
Mrs. Prerez stated that she would |
never forget the Girls congress held
here in the fall 1t was the first con-
gress of girls that she ever attended
and as she remembers it she always
thinks of the Filipino girl and looks
forward to the day when the girls OF
the PHILIPPINES may have congress
together too She made a strong plea
for the Y. w. G. A. in the PHILIPPINES.