FRIENDLESS GIRLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1932, Page 4

FRIENDLESS GIRLS

HOURS OF LONELINESS. The loneliness of girls from the provinces, who spend friendless lives in the million-peopled City of London, was voiced recently during a discussion at the new central club, in Great Russell-street, of the Young Women's Christian Association. Miss Amy Snelson said that large numbers of girls from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and every county of England found London not so beautiful as they imagined when they first arrived. There was the terrible loneli ness of “digs.” A Scotsgirl had just said to her, “Have you ever looked in a London cafe on Sunday afternoon and seen the number of girls who sit at the tables as long as they dare just because they hate to go back to their ‘digs’?” An other girl had said, “Ou Saturday 1 used to leave my office and sometimes I never spoke to a soul again till Monday morning when I got back to the office.”

The Bishop of Stepney, added Miss Snelson, had said that an educated girl from a nice home in the North of England told him she was so lonely in London that <gn Sunday afternoon when she went out into Oxford Street, if anyone had spoken to her she would have answered. “I do realise,” had said the bishop, “how lonely it must be in this great London of ours.”