To Philadelphia last week journeyed 1,700 women, young and old, as delegates from 600 communities and seven lands, to the biennial national convention of the Y. W. C. A. There many a one had her first chance to see a pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott— president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which...
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