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Show ON THE MISSISSIPPI BLUFFS. The Dolly Madison Hotel af Alton, Illinois, was once a rather unattractive commercial house of sixty-five rooms, ; But the Y. W. C. A. industrial service, ; center, of war times grew overnight into a' permanent community center, , and the Dolly Madison is now a Y. W. C. A. establishment for that cen ter, with a cafeteria, clubrooms, libra ries, gymnasium and rooms for one hundred girls. There arc kitchenettes on the bed-room bed-room floors, where the delicacies dear to girls' hearts may be produced with-out with-out burning the bedclothes. Five hundred girls come for club.-. j, work. The public uses flic building for recreation and meetings. The cafe- H terin is popular. If is hoped that even.' tually the community will take it over ' as its property and make it a com- inanity affair from cellar to garret. ' The situation is a common one. Two thousand girls employed at Alton's I ammunition plant are now retained at ' the brass factory -which replaces it. , The Illinois Bottle Works also adds n i j large number of industrial wonfen to-j to-j those who feel tho need of a clean, ; homey place where they can make friends and live in comfort. The girls i jH i themselves put on middies and bloom- I jf ers and helped clean up the old hotel. I The growth of the war center into a I community one is logical and of such I 'Significance that we shall furnish read-' ' j el's of the Bulletin a complete account of the evolution in a later issue. |