FOLLOW FLAG

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 4

FOLLOW FLAG

The Y.W.C.A. Abroad, . During the 'war many different organisations have set before them, jthe'objeut :of "helping thp i homfe"'to','fbUow the ■flag,but tlie Y.W.C.A.-s'workthas been; unique, in that it has helped -the home to also follow the,'girl, ' bh'eifliade' hi-.. sacritice to go to France.-" 'l'he JI.W.C.A. has, recognised her \6acrifice,: hsr needs, herloneliness, and Mllowed her in : ai, her 'wanderings with\a i-eal- hojiie: in' o \foreigii v . land.' . up.,its work ■abroad, it has takeii caro ,o£ ifflie 'giii. What this, means has been reilliad fully by' fathers and mithers Vlio a(e. more t'lian!\: three thousand miles 'ftbm' v u I/,.. The American dollars sentMntofFTance havefbeen 'distributed along Vjtried",lines,' ■ and'one line is .'helping tli& l'rehch- . women in industry. \ , The . Young Vvuuien's Christian : Association' opened a foyer or ■ recreation centre in Itoanne for the. helpjilg oi 'hundreds of girls who arij employed in an'arsenal, l'ho worker in charge oft the ■foyer, wrote: "We' have'•ha&>, , q\»..'foyer.;; opened a week, and each ho'on'.inoro-girls i are aVrivihg. It is Very, griitifyingf ,t< . look-# the faces of the "woul'en. as tney. sit in \life coiufbr'tiible, i'boihy chaiis iat' the foyw, sewing, reading,.writing, etc:— mnny'fafe seamed with care,;woi'ry, and' uiiliappiiites, the result of four, years, bfj Incessant borrow. The gratitude';of allV' old arid.yolmg alike—makes the'\«'ork of this foyer'all important one. It is. tlii; ' beginning of\a new generation "oIN industrial women Mn Franre." \