The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-01

In an effort to extend its useful
ness In the community by reaching
out and rendering helpful service to
the thousands Of young women who
are temporary residents Of the Ma
tons Capital as Government work
ers. the congregation Of the Luther
lace Memorial Church. at Thomas
circle, has established a welfare bu-
reau, with a paid, full-time secretary.
There will be week-evening round
table studies along the line OF how
to the improve the use Of English
and how to correct everyday errors
OF speech; other evenings will be de-
voted to discussions of how to be-
come efficient in the Government
service, how to buy advantageously,
etc.
In addition, as the occasion arises.
girls who see ahead the day when
they will become housewives, will be
given opportunity TO study at first
hand in the homes OF the gentlewomen
Of the congregation. how successful
households are conducted. how meals
are planned. etc. 1t is expected that
the merchants Of the city, as the work
expands, will cooperate by furnishing
speakers and demonstrators to show
how to furnish apartments to advant-
age, and how to get the most out OF
the dollars beginning ,housekeepers
From time to time there will be Il.
/, Illustrated travel talks by the best
travel writer's and lecturers in the
country, addresses by the chief clerks
OF the several departments and bu-
reaus of the Government, and many
other activities that will meet the
needs Of the young women taking part
in the movement - Es - ~
Realizing that even with what i'm
provement has been made. housing
conditions in quarters open to the
average women in the Government
service are still far from affording
them the comforts and the oppor-
tunities for social diversion that were
theirs at home, the Welfare Bureau
plans numerous little at homes in
the church parlors where the young
for wholesome diversion that help
so much to take the unceasing grind
women ca mind the opportunities
out Of their daily existence.
Later, II conditions warrant, there
will be established a hespice under
the direction of the bureau, where
young women can get out Of the
not-too-attractive boarding houses,
into a modern home where they can
live, under the chaperonage Of a
sympathetic matron, normal lives,
where their friends can come to
see them. and where there will be
an honest-to-goodnes honey atmos-
phere.
The religious activities Of the Blu
| reau will be conferred in the Rainbow
Bible Class, which meets in the
church auditorium every Sunday
| morning at 10 o'clock, and to this
| course in Bible Study every young
woman who Is without q church
home is heartily invited.
On the whole, 1t is the ambition OF
| those responsible for the Welfare
Bureau to have its functions mainly
determines by the young women II
| seeks to serve. II IL their needs II
| seeks to meet, and through them
that these needs can best be ascer'
tanned.
The secretary of the bureau, Miss
Tile Nelson, is said by the church
officers to be a woman In ten thou.
sand for such a, position. For years
| she was. in the Government service
herself, having come to Washington
after finishing her course at the
University Of Wisconsin. Later she
decided to- enter missionary work
and spent six years In the Guntur
| field in India, as q missionary teach,
er. She believes in the gospel OF
smiles and sunshine, and expects tc
make them keynotes Of her work.