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Show Y. W. C. A. Houses Lille Students 'Hotel Opened to Care for Womer in War Famous City. LILLE. France. No street cars running, run-ning, practic.alh no mail service, stoie3 all but depleted of supplies, living I prices and rents beyond reach in a few words it is the picture of Lille The I great factories which made this city a ' leader in the country's industrial life, have been systematically destroyed by the Germans, so there is not even work for the people. i There is a big university here al- naBwncBqanMnMniBnBMMV tended by young women from all sec tions of France. There are also Hrge commercial and industrial schools for women. The American dormitor;. system sys-tem is little known and out of tO n women students have the greatest difficulty dif-ficulty securing oecent and respectable quarters. French women in Lille saw insurmountable insur-mountable problems in the way of housing these women this year. Thoy asked the help of the American Young Women's Christian association which came to France to serve French women's wom-en's War time needs as well as its own American women war workers The result is that this month a student stu-dent hotel that will house about fifty cirls is to be opened by the Y. W. C. ". Mrs. E. W Fisher, a Blue Triangle worker, is in charge. During the summer it will not be entirely filled with students and will be- used as a city foyer, or club, for girls of Lille. This hostel is a tangible result of the work of the Y. W. C A.'s provisional provi-sional council, an organization of lead ling French and American women in France, formed for ihe purpose of studying how best the war work of the Y. W. 0. A could he adapterl to peree true needs, with French instead of American leadership. FRENCH GIRLS CAMP, TOO. PARIS. June . Summer camps on the "American plan" will be a brand new feature of vacation life for French business girls this summer The news comes from Miss Mary Dingman, of Taterson, N. J., leader of French work for the American Y W. C A. Three camping centers have bon taken by the association and will be attended by a big proportion of the 15,000 girls who are members of the Y. W. C. A.'s clubs in various industrial indus-trial centers in France. The camps are in the northern coast districts and will carry on out of doors recreational programs new to French girls. |