"HOUSE-WARMING" Aft THE Y.W.C.A.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 89, 21 May 1914, Page 4

"HOUSE-WARMING" Aft THE Y.W.C.A.

Last evening the Girls' Standing Committee, in connection with the Y.W.C.A., gave their first tea party in the new building, Latimer Square.' At about 6.15 ■. members and guests (the latter including members of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board) sat down to tea, which was served at two long tables and two cross tables, in the cafetaria. Mrs Kaye (president) presided, and Miss E. Vine, secretary of the Girls' Standing Committee, acted as toast mistress, and .expressed the universal desire of the association members to say "Thank you" to the directors and all others who had assisted in ing 1 the new building. Various' toasts were rjroposed, including those of "Tne President;" '' The Board of Directors,'' '' The Advisory Board," " The General Secretary, Miss MacNeil," " The TreasMrs Callender," "The Citizens, who are the donors of the building,". and '' The Members.'' At the conclusion of the tea, the first log fire was lit by the "Hearth Fire Girls," who repeated the following quaint verses as the flames blazed up: — Burn, fire, burn; Flicker, flicker, flame; Whose hand above this blaze is lifted Shall be with magic touch engifted To warm the hearts of chilly mortals Who stand without these open portals: The touch shall draw thee to the fire, Higher, higher, By desire. Whoso shall stand at this hearth-stone, Flame fanned, Shall never, never, stand alone: Whose house is dark and bare and old, Whose hearth is cold, This is his own. Flicker, flicker, flicker, flame; Burn, lire, burn! Afterwards all gathered round the fire with no light in the room but that of the leaping; "flames, • while Miss MacNeil. gave a tender little talk on the spiritual building of the house, the gathering dispersing soon afterwards.