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THE QUINCY DAILY HERALD: FRIDAY EVENI]EQUIPPING GIRLSFOR LAND SERVICELand Service Committee of Y. W. lt;\ A. Is Heady to Equip Units.. IIThe call of girls to ^he land is no less imperative, if less peremptory, than the summons of men to the trenches. To win the war, food production must be increased. What English girl3 have accomplished in agriculture since the war began is already history. What Canadian girls ha'o done at the behest of their ! government, girls in the United States can also do.As appeals come in from organizations for girls in the fields, the Land Service committee of the Y. W\ C. A. is ready to equip units that are without financial backing. Miss Mary North, executive secretary of this committee, brought out many interesting facts of Canada’s experience with women in farming and fruit culture in a report of her recent visit to Canada.Miss North found three university girls of Toronto, sisters who have a brother in France, doing the work of cultivation on a Canadian farm of d40 acres with the help of one man. Besides working in the fields, oneof the girls runs the milk route, doing the bottling and peddling. Another takes entire care of the hogs, feeding them and cleaning the pens. The third has charge of the poultry.On the day of Miss North's visit, the three girls were in different fields, each driving a pair of strong farm horses -one guiding a clog crusher, one a disk plough and one a harrow. The girls wore khaki knickers and Russian blouses, canvas leggings and long coats. The care of the horses which they drove also fell upon them. The girls feed and clean the horses, clean the stables, providing the fresh bedding, and harness and hitch the horses to the wagons and farm implements. Twenty more girls are expected on this farm before midsummer. ThisftWomen Teachers’ IMcnfc.The annual picnic of the Women Teachers’ club was held yesterday afternoon in South park and was a most enjoyable affair. There werenearly one hundred teachers present to enjoy the afternoon in the park, some taking their knitting. A Yic-trola was taken to the park and there was dancing in the shelter house,which proved quite a feature. A most delectable luncheon was served, Miss Thomasson being the chairman of the committee to arrange for it. The afternoon proved one of the most attractive that has ever boon the pleasure of the club to enjoy.* *Mussel mans Are Home,Mrs. Mary Musselman and daughter, Miss Harfet, arrived home Wednesday evening after a delightful winter spent at Daytona Beach, Florida. They stopped for a short visit at Asheville, N. C., on their wav home. They will visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mussel man for a short time and later expect to go to Bluff Park. Iowa, where they have a cottage and will spend the summer months there.* * «Here for Visit,Mrs. F. B. McKennan arrived here last evening from Lincoln. Nebraska, where she has spent the winter with her daughter, Miss Esther, who has been studying music and taking a I liberal arts course there. Miss Esther will come to Quincy in about two weeks. Miss Rachel McKennan also arrived last evening from Fulton, Mo., where she has been an instructor in English at the Synoai-cal Girls’ college for the last year. Miss Ruth McKennan who has been on the faculty of the Hayward, Wis., High school will not come to Quincy for a visit until later in the fall. Mrs. McKennan and^her daughters! will go to Madison, Wisconsin, late! in .Tune where they will take the! summer's course at the University of Wisconsin.!: 5*: #St. Rose Card Party.More than 200 people attended the delightful whist and. dance given by the societies of St. Rose of Lima church for the benefit of the Knights of Columbus war fund in the K. of C. hall Thursday night. The card game was played at 4 0 tables and prizes were awarded as follows: Mrs. I Bat Curry, a center piece: Miss Iva i Kuehlen, a fern, and Miss Anna' Coyle, a plant; Bat Curry, an umbrella; Ed Mingold, a box of silk hose, and Harry Morris, a box of handkerchiefs. After the whist dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. The committee chairmen consisting of Phil O'Brien and Harry Morris, representing the Western Catholic Union branches, Mrs. W. W. Hodge, the Altar society and Miss Kate Johnson the Young Ladies' sodality, report that a fairly large sum was realized from the affair.Mrs. Wellman and Daughter Here.Mrs. Jessie Klrna Wellman and daughter, Miss Helen, are at the Hotel Quincy for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Wellman has been in Chicago for some time, and her daughter in St. Louis. Mrs. Wellman’s son, Finley, is in the U, S. aviation service.* * 5}iMiss Mulliner in Play.Miss Starr Mulliner, formerly of j this city, now making her home in Galesburg, is to have a part in a play to be given by the Illini Camp Fire .girls at the Prairie playhouse in | Galesburg, on June 5 Land 6. Miss j Mulliner will take the part of a chic French maid.ia no play work at farming.fThese are part of an army of Canadian girls who are now working eight hours a day but who expect later to work ten hours. They have been warned that if they keep up witty the men their working day will have to be twelve hours. On Sir Edward Osier's estate, girls were doing all the work of regular farm hands.The Dominion council of the Y. \V. C. A., which corresponds to the National Board in this country, is planning to house half of the 3,000 girls which the government of Canada expects to put on the land the coming summer. The council now has thirteen units comprising 481 girls ready for Ontario fields.Canada faced a situation last summer that confronts the United States at this time. It was to investigate her methods and results, in the interests of the Land Service committee, that Miss North made her visit.Miss North's report states that the Ontario Government Employment Bureau recruits the women workers and makes contracts with the farmers, fixing wages and requiring thefarmers to keep the government tents in good repair. The Dominion council of the Y. W. C. A. stocks and provisions the camps. The Women’s Institute, an association of farmers* wives, passes on the character of the employers and keeps an eye on thegirls.Systematic effort is in operation in various parts of Canada to train girls for farm and fruit work. The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph opened a'three weeks* course May 1st, in which they are taught vegetable gardening, dairying, care of poultry and early morning work which means care of stables, milking, feeding cows, horses and poultry. A large number of High school girls and boys are receiving instruction in everything pertaining to the care of horses, a private stable of GOO horses having been turned over for this purpose.Various state organizations and the Woman’s Land army in this country are placing women on the soil for farm work in all its phases. Heretofore the outdoor work of women has been generally confined to truck gardening and fruit gathering. The coming summer promises to see all this changed.Requests for information concerning service in the Land Army as workers on the land should be sent to the Women’s Land Army of America, 10 West 4 4th Street, New York City.Requests for information as to service on the staff of the Y. W. C. A. Units of the Woman’s Land Army should be sent to the Land Service Committee, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City.iMiss Marian CraneTo Enter War WorkMiss Marian Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Crane of East Jersey street who will be graduated from Smith college next month will go to New York City to enter the Post Graduate Hospital for an advanced course in bateriology on July 1. The Post Graduate Hospital has up to this time never taken anyone but graduate doctors with the degree of M. D., but such a great demand has arisen in the present day for women to take up hospital laboratory work, that offers have been made to the various eastern colleges for graduates who were interestedin the work, urging them to take It up. Miss Crane is one * of fourchosen from Smith college, who have specialized in biological chemistry, and the honor is a distinct one. There is a great need for women in hospital work and many are taking up different branches of the work. Mrs. Crane will go to Northampton to be present at the commencement exercises of Smith college which will be from June 0 to 14, and she and Miss Marian will then visit in Buffalo and New York City before Miss Marian enters the hospital in July. The course is from three to six months and those who enter it hope to do war hospital work of some nature.Y. W. C. A. Lodging House for WomenAccording to the War Work counci of the Young Women’s Christian as sociation, a model lodging house fo Washington, with accommodation for 150 to 200 girls, is planned a a national experiment by the asso ciation.Washington was chosen as the lo cation because of the acuteness o the housing problem in the Capital The house will be a temporary struc ture on the order of those in the vie inity of munition factories. If thlt; experiment proves a success, tin Young Women’s Christian associatloi plans to erect other houses in dis tricts where they are needed through out the country.The house will contain a large rec reation hall and a dining room witl a seating capacity of 1,000. Thi dining rooms will be approached b; a separate entrance so that those oc cupying the lodging house may hav« comparative privacy. The same ar chitect who made plans for the per manent building will construct tin lodging house.It was decided to proceed with tin permanent building at the southeas corner of Thirteenth and I street Washington. This will contain lec ture rooms, office, gymnasium and i swimming pool.
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Quincy Daily Herald
Quincy, Illinois, US
Fri, May 24, 1918
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