Show MOSLEM WOMEN 1 LIKE UKE CLUB LIFE BUT NO MEN MENI I I Doctors Doctor's s AI Appearance l in ill HosI Hospital Hos Ilos- I p pital ital Ward Nearly Wrecks I Rc Red l Cross Endeavor I 11 Hj- Hj rn irr Service irrIce Ice Tirana Albania Jan SI For IOor For the tho j i first time In history Moslem women I has have o o a women's club It Is 15 tho the first firsti i I oman's omans u club In Albania Red Cross ar- ar When hn tho the American I in cd In Tirana it established a n. hosI hos- hos I pIL PItI il a dispensary for babies and for tor torI 1 I adults a sowing son room for women an ani i orphanage and a school But these I I were only for tot tho poorer people Tho The ThoI well to women shut hut In according I to o the Moslem custom forced to wear weal i b b back aek veils eIls on the streets were not notI being reached b by anyone anono except tho the I doctors And the tho work of or tho the Red Cross was not receiving full co cooperation cooperation eo- eo operation from tho the Moslem women because of or the restrictions on their lives So It was decided to organize a n. womans woman's club Tho Red ned Cross women visited all the tho homes and Invited tho the women to toa toa a n. formal tea ten Tho They Thoy came over sixty sl ty of or them swathed In tho the heavy black cloaks and antI black face tace coverings co that make mako a n. Moslem woman on the streets a most pec peculiar lIar object They had tea teat 1 t and md Jam tHey smoked Innumerable little nn and through an In Interpreter interpreter In- In II the Americans tal talked ked to them thern They told about women's clubs In America what whal tho the women omen I did for tor the poor and especially llY how much the tho Red Cross In 1 Tirana Irana needed I their co Moslem Women Thrilled I The Moslem women were tero thrilled i and Interested Many any o of them heard about aboul tho the hospital and tho the dispensary dispensary sary for tor tho first time Enthusiastically Enthusiastically Enthusiastically I they learned how to elect a I president and md other officers and and were ere I appointed on committees to work worle with the hospital tho the orphanage and tho other institutions Tho American i women were delighted I I But the next day day- appeared the first difficulty Madame Beg called to say sty that she was sorry but that she would have to withdraw from Cram tho the hospital committee But wh why when when I. I we need you so 50 very ven much Madame would not c explain at first but finally finally- tho the star story came carne out The doctor at tho the hospital was ns a 1 man I Many of or tho the patients were men Her husband would not permit her to be bo seen there Then Ihen American Ingenuity set to work ork Very well if Ir Beg Bee ob objected objected ob- ob but surely ho would not mind It If she eho stayed on tho the committee and only went to committee meetings with tho the women Sho need not visit the hospital at all Both Madame and Be Bag were ero pleased with tho the arrangement And when all the other women omen In n the hospital committo came to make mako the same samo excuse the they wore all wheedled Into staying for committee But the committee meetings wore were made mado as Interesting Interesting-as as as' possible The cases of or all tho the poor women In tho the hospital were Tho The curiosIty curiosity curiosity curios curios- ity of or tho the women was too much They wanted to see sea the hospital Hospitals Visited That was arranged They were to visit vIlt the hospital only when the man doctor was not there thoro and th then n only onh the women's w wards For two or three days das they whisked discreetly in land and oU out But one day there was a very cry ill III woman patient who had a n. little baby bab Madame a arne Bog BeJ and two other ladles ladies were absorbed In talking talking- to her Then thc they wanted to know ex exactly exactly ex- ex what the tho doctor said about her The Tho American woman with them demurely de demurely de- de suggested that they wait walt until the doctor came so that sho aho could ask him They Ther waited The doctor gave It a n. long ons- ons namo which conveyed little either cither to American or Moslem Would Madame De Bes Degl care to talk to tho the doctor herself There was a moment of or hesitation while the tho American woman waned for Cor tho the fate of ot her womans woman's club to tobe tobe tobo be bo sealed Beg Bel saw the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor and tall talked ed with ith him And Arid now tho ho hospital committee ortho ot or tho the Ladles Ladles' Humanitarian Society of or Tirana which Tirana which Is Its name visits name visits the hospital at nn any and all times They chat with the doctor even een If It ho Is la a 1 man The They even cn visit tho the men p pa pa- |