Show WOMEN'S I CLUB FO FORMED BY MOSLEMS I I But the Men Just Had to Stay A Away fOra Away way for for a While TIRANA IRANA Alb Albania Jan 27 For For the first time in history Moslem women h havea Va women's cub club It t 1 is the first women's club in Albania When the American Red Cross arrived ar ar- ar rived in in Tirana It established a hospi- hospi hOSPI 1 babies and for ta tal a a dispensary for room for tor women an adults a sewing I orphanage e and a school But these I the people The w re only for poorer wel well well-to-do to do women shut In according to toM I black forced to wear MOslem M slem custom veils on the streets were not being reached by anyone except the women I doctors And the work Cf the RedCross RedCross Red RedCross Cross was not receiving full cooperatIon cooperation cooperation tion from the Moslem women because of the restrictions on an on their lives So decided to organize a woman womans woman's a It iwas was cl club b. b TEA JAM CIGARETTES I all women visited The Red Cross the homes and invited the women toa to came over sixty a a. formal tea They came of them swathed in fri the heavy black cloaks and black face coverings that make a B. Moslem woman on the streets a B. most peculiar object They had tea arid and Jam they smoked d innumerable e little cigarettes and through an interpreter In Interpreter in- in the Americans talked to th them m. m They were told about women's women's wo wo- wo- wo mens men's clubs In America what the women did for the poor and especially how much the Red Cross in Tirana needed their cooperation PO POSITIVELY THRILLED The Moslem women were thrilled and Interested Many of them heard about the hospital and the dispensary for the first time Enthusiastically they learned how to elect a president and oth other r officers officer and were appointed on committees to work with the hospital hospital hos hos- pital the orphanage and the other in in- in The American women were delighted But the next lay day ay appeared the M first difficulty Madame Heg Jeg eg called to say that she was sorry but that she would have to withdraw from the hospital committee But why Madame when we need you ou so sp very much 1 IN WOODPILE Madame would not hot explain at first but finally the story came out The doctor at the hospital was wa a man Many of patients were were men Her husband would not permit her to be seen there Then Ther American Ingenuity set to tow tow w work tk rk Very Very well if Beg ob objected objected objected ob- ob but surely he would not mind I if she stayed on the con committee and only went to committee meetings with th the women She need not visit the hospital at all CURIOSITY CONQUERS Both Bolli Madame and Beg were pleased with the arrangement 1 And when all an the other women on the hospital committee came to make malte the same excuse they were all wheedled into staying for committee meetings But Bu the thc committee meetings were made as interesting as possible The eases cases of all the poor women in the hospital hOpital were discussed The curious curious- I Ity of the women was too much They wanted to see the hospital DOCTOR BANISHED That was arranged They were to visit t the e hospital only when the man doctor was not there and then only wards For two or three days ays they hey whisked discreetly in and out But t one one oie day ay there w was a very ill woman woma patient who had a little baby Ma Madame ame Beg and two other ladies ladies' were absorbed in talking to her when Then they wanted to know exactly ex ex- what the doctor said about her The American woman with them demurely suggested that they wait walt un until Il the doctor came so that she I could ask him They waited The doctor gave it a long name which conveyed little either to American or or oz i Moslem YES SHE WOULD Would Madame Beg care to talk taik to the do tor herself There was a moment of hesitation while the American woman waited for the fate of her womans woman's club to tobe tobe tobe be sealed Madame Beg SET ear the doctor doctor doc doe tor and talked with him And now the hospital committee of the Ladies Ladles Humanitarian Society of Tirana which Tirana which Is Its name visits name visits the hospital at any any- and all times They chat with the doctor even If he ho is a nian sean man They even visit the men patient |