Show WOMEN A AND N LD tha T 12 2 WAR by MRS HENRY P DAVISON 1 11 preisur r N ar N ork council national hourd Y W C A in in tu au iiii illinois i aois biame town lles lives i widow who launders lat inders bus bas i ets els of 0 wash a week and eveia night th thanks inks god X 13 for haying having P put u t 00 pity into t the he hearts ot of women to her came one day a letter from her on onla son he fie was then at camp auns funs bunston Pu on kanbas learning to be a soldier rhe let ter begged herlo hereto come anti and te hie him before he it was sent bent to france the TO other mother opened the tin mrs mr daulson bank in which fhe had been hoir hoarding ding her dimes and quarters against this lay day the money waa sc arcel 3 enough ehe he started she walked the first agh acon wiles miles then her strength gant out and she ehe took a train she lid did not know that visitors to camp runsten run stun stay in junction cit cita eleven miles iway away so she got off the train tit at fort uney an officer set bet her right and she reached june tion lion city afeei daik somehow domebo she nhe found a rooming house some conw bliele stole five dollars from her fly of the precious dollars she had earned over oer the he wash tub anti and saved by walking terror stricken she crept out oat of the house when no one was as loo loorine lo kint later in n the night a soldier found hei ti embling in the street and took her to the looms of 0 thu tho oung koung nanom om on eus 5 chi istian association 1006 6 nhi which h the var N ar nork ork council had opened as a clearinghouse clearing house for trou brou bles the poor woman was put to bed but she was too vils erable to sleep tho the mitron got up at daybreak built a tire fire and corn con forted her the sons commanding was i cached by telephone eail aaili in the morning and the ba boi came to his mathei on the first arol ae 1 car he could catch the two spent long lone low voiced hours together perhaps the last hours they will have this side aide of headen heven every moment waa vms as pro pre clous as a month had been last year the old lady had till still one present worry the boys boy s bad cold might turn into pneumonia it if she left him but the he had not money enough canough to stay another other night and buy a ticket home when nhen the mation told her that her bod was ans free she broke down and cried and cried I 1 did not kno know there was so 0 o much pit left in the she sobbed she staged till hei boys cold was aas bettor better then she went ent back to her seventeen Nash washings ings and her memo ries Be because calise of the certainty of just tuch such cases as this was vas Goern governmental mental lanc sanction tion given to the activities of the war IN orl ork council of the Y W V C A aiom t tte tiie pacific to the alantic its field extends every enery state lu in the kunou has its members urgent ap pesas for or help are its cause and its tiomi awn onu i ot of every race and bled we aie its ita wards the yak of the nar ar nork ork council la is tremendous when the united states entered the great war tho the young women nomen a Chilst lau association was as ahaas working among women omen with the call to new ne duties its members did not ot abandon their old responsibilities the war aar vork snork council was formed AS s an emergency measure to take fare eare of the women momen who were guht aught in home of the mazes ot of war jut as the parent organization has taken cate caie of them through many years ot of peace the varied activities decided upon by the war nar work council follow close closel the needs ot of the different communities of the countr country sec ret arles aries trained in the methods ot the organization were ere sent out broadcast they were instructed to lenoit to the national blaid of the young women a christian associations in new york the lines of work which could be best beat followed in tho the parlous localities these secretaries nork ork in close cooperation with min aisters women s clubs chambers of commerce churches military officials ind charitable societies the rec old oi d of a days day s doings ot of a secie beci tary reads like a novel an economic leatise icat iea lse tise and a psychological essay all compressed compre saed into a line a day entry A secretary sent out by the in war ar ork council must be equal to any emergency miss lillian hull hall at chil illethe close by camp sherman bherman hurling along the street at nightfall came ame upon a forlorn couple A finnish soldier had found a job for hla his abife so that she might come on nota rienz cleveland evelind Cl when nhea she arrived she was refused the place she spoke no anglish their money had been all spent on the railroad fare and the soldier was due back at camp the situation was bad thanks to miss hull a houseA housewife ife now has an industrious and grateful domestic a soldier la in happy and a soldiers wife Is sate safe amy folks often benefit even more directly from the secretaries work in bremerton brewerton Br emerton washington glon a secretary was accosted on the by a sailor bailor she was aas a slender woman oman and he had mistaken her tor for a girl I 1 may I 1 walk alk along with ou on he bo asked surely she replied with mature and intuition N hat Is the matter are ou fou homesick 9 1 the lad s story came out with a rush acs ics es he was inas homesick so hopelessly hope lessl despairingly heartsick that he was on the verge ot of de deserting erting nut but this gave him genuine and encouragement she bhe saed him to his country prom north south east and west aest these e pioneer secretaries vent bent la in th their reports the appalling size ot the undertaking dundei taking was as repealed to the mar ar aik oik council systematization of the work nas the first step out of the multitudinous phases certain lines of t work eie revealer reve aleu continued |