Woman in Venezuela

The second association — that is, the Children's Association — is a recent one, and I spoke with one of its directresses, Isabel Carmona, a student at the Central University, twenty years of age. Isabel says that the association accepts as members all who wish to work with it, without regard to differences of religion, class, or political point of view. The treatment of the problem of homeless children is the chief matter occupying the association's mind, for there are in Venezuela about one hundred thousand illegitimate children. The association attacks this problem by enlightening woman and educating her, and by helping her to establish clean, well-ordered homes — and thereby to create a new, understanding generation.

Woman takes part in organized sports; her favorite games are volleyball and softball, and she enters athletic contests and matches, competing in running, jumping, swimming, and tennis.

The women of the upper and middle classes envy the American woman her freedom. And the conservative women find her life strange, and fear