MISS BARNES OF NEW YORK.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 7

MISS BARNES OF NEW YORK.

A Y.W.C-A. WORKER. To help on the good work of t!:* Young Women’s Christian Asssxiatsvn in Auckland eomes Miss Helen Barnes. JLA. of Ne*’ York, at the special invitation of the Australian and New Zealand brandies of the organisation. A woman of striking personality and :oreefulne-s of character. Miss Barties should do miH-h to further the interests erf the loeal Association, wiiieh is already a potent factor for good among young women. Miss Barnes is vitally interested in ■’the young woman of today," and think- that that young person is perhap- the meet important feature on the horizon. “It is a girl’s age." says thi- enttruria-tic apostle of the proper training of the coming generation of women for its great -••pbere in life. ” AH over the world girts are working in the very heart of a thou-aml irwhrst ri< -. We can’t get on without girls. What would happen to the huge oanmervial rutirpiiw, of the world if some morning, by ><eue strange, unforeseen event, no girt* went to work! Fiftv wars agt> there was no need for a Y W.CA. Tire world’* girts

<<rv safeguarded ' • r * • • " working br*tde the.r mother*. X r only think of the Uur ’- ; e* a’ you reahae that, what il»cd to be th* work of the heme. s* performed . ; r lie enterprise bat it’* done by C’ti* Who. then, is to think of the’r need* ibe'r varying needs? That i* ukit th Y.VF.C.A does. That »* ohy it »t nto being; that < why it ~' * o growing unit' it m a world-wide instil lion, operating in ’and YAV.V.A. k the • *. d/tno rr ■»*••■■» Nation in the world. taki of rank or siaii*’i. *<••:: •*»'■ v* draw all women together . a ‘ • <•» I of service. in gtig a-.-; tak luc ga that count. Think of all the Homeless girb>; think of .<. it- I :a ly women; think tf all that a homciy. f r t-ndiy cent re. with gent . pi< asa t _- . - so tc.em! They are ’-..•stv’y because *. .?> arc anay from b r;; Y \ arc . a«k them to \ ’ ■•’<*. ’ .i’ everv wcntjk:-. .ail infuse a b.: of her Lome into the as'j'Ociatieu by giving v? a: i* is het power to give — lime, art : < Miss Barnes arri><xl in Auckland on S z train fran ■ ■ ■’ •he gnest of Dr ar i Xl:s tksught. of EjpMMn. Slie U to be welcomed at the a icg matters ir connection with the Au kland bras K-h. Ou next she is i> speak vu *o:r!* - : To in the Town Hall. Mr C J. Parr. Mayor of Auckland, being she thaiman of the meeting. A number of c»’Aez gather logs hare been arranged tor t-e f«»ri night whkh Mi*s Barnes -* i *t Auckland.