The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
The Birmingham Y. w. c, A. AS a
"Y" Girl Sees 1t Today

! for all lights. either hanging from
the beamed ceiling or standing on
! little wicker tables and a big grand
| piano placed at the farther end We
! think it is beautiful.
| Come In and visit us some time.
I preferably on a cold winter night.
when we have a fire in the big fire
! place with the Teritable circle Of
chairs drawn UP before It, and the
only light is the fire light or maybe
one or two Of the lamps are lighted.
and perhaps someone is playing and
singing or we are just talking and
/ I'm sure you will like It, too.
There is also on the first floor
library with black painted furni-
ture gayly upholstered with brilliant
cretonne, and long bookcase filled
with books and several smaller rooms
decidedly useful and nightly occupied
from about 1880 to 10 or 1880 o'clock.
Most of the girls sit around in the
/ lobby, but there are times and occa
sions when privacy is delightful and
| Is or 30 girls are decidedly ode trop."
Hence, the smaller rooms.
The Cafeteria
Zone remaining room downstairs is
| the cafeteria. where meals aretserved,
not only for house girls, but for the
general public, from to 8 o'clock in
/
| noon and $3.50 to 1880 o'clock in the
evening. 1t is quite as attractive as
| the other rooms. done in green and
| yellow, with green painted chairs and
small tables seating four, with crisis
cross table runners, usually of check
Tered bingham, and small yellow
lustre bowl of flowers in the center.
Upstairs, we have rooms for about
100 girls, singles, doubles. rooms for
opA rOpp1 for eight gfrla
usually spoken of as the "dormitory,"
| In addition, we have large and we'll
| equipped gymnasium on the third
| floor, and in the basement the only
| swimming pool for women In the city
| of Birmingham. Put 100 girls in a
home like that and how, could they
help enjoying themselves
Rules At Y. w. C.sA.
but don't you have an awful lot
of rules thereT lrE. tssy- 1888
perhaps that is tho most usual
and common question asked a " girl
and / thing 1 can truthfully answer
ii in the negative il one will stop
and consider 100 girls Of all sorts
tall girls, short girls, thin girls. ia {
girls, pretty girls, not SO pretty girls.
gay girls. sad girls, young girls. and.
/ shall / say, not so young girls2'
Moreover, half of Them are coming
one day and going the next, for we
have a large floating population of
transients, and when one thinks. 1t
\ over il is remarkable that we can
I get along with as few rules as we do.
For the fact is that we really have
just two-but they must be obeyed!
They are, You must always sign
up with the desk secretary when
leaving the house, except when going
| to work.
You must be in the house by 1880
o'clock every night except Tuesday
and Friday, -('late nights"), when thu
doors are open until 1880.
Perhaps the reason why these
rules have never disturbed me. per-
sonally, is that they appeal to me as
being SO entirely sensible. The first
one explains itself. 1t is merely "a
tant message, telegram, etc, should
arrive and girl need to be sum-
moned in haste.
1.-THE second does worry some,
know. but when we step to realize
| that practically every girl in the
Y. w. c. A. works, and has to be
downtown at 1880, or $3.50 o'clock
| every morning, we appreciate the
| wisdom of a rule that makes us sleep
at least seven hours. or maybe eight,
according to whether it is Tuesday
or Friday night.
This rule is net SO inflexible
that should anything very important
come along "Y" girl would have to
miss 1t. Mrs. Stradley VIII, and does,
grant special permission should the
occasion demand,
Sick Girls Cared For
II think most of us get along pref
ty we'll away from home when we
are feeling WELL but as soon as we
begin to get sick, we long for home
and for mother, and should the Y.