The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-20
THE NEW HOME
For tEe New Haven City Missions to Include Physical Culture for Women and fxir1o

For tie New Haven City Missions to
 Include Physical Culture for Women
 and Girls.
 In the pans for the new City M ,ss,on
 building which are receiving the luish- ing touches at the hands of Ar,hitect
 l.. W. Roblnrcn, provision is made for
 a gymi,asium for women and girls.
 The idea has met with much favcr
 since its adoption. Work among girls
 has a4wavs formed an important fea-
 ture of the Mission, although nothing
 in this line more than weekly gymnas-
 tic class has been found practicable in
 the present quarters in English hall. l While such ample provision is being
 made for gymnasiums for young men and boys in the new Y. M. c. A. build-
 ing, the chances for young women and
 girls in this line are very limited in this
 city.
 It is desired to fit a room, as means may be afforded, with such apparatus as Is most desirable for girls and young women. No class in the community need and respond to physical culture so much as girls and doubtless this fea- ture, in connection with the other work of the mission, will be at once very pop ular and means of much good. The management hope 1t may so commend itself to some of New Haven's generous women as to prompt an offer of perhaps $lOOO to equip 1t. It will of course be open to other classes of young women and girls besides those connected with the mission.
 Provision Is also to be made in the new building for classes in cooking and home nursing and these additions, ta- ken in connection with the sewing classes which have all along been an important feature of the work, will af- ford much promise for the home life of present and future generations of girls who can avail themselves of such ad- vantages They will mean better phy- sical development, better cooked food and better made clothing and an i1n- of idea and method in num- berless matters Which enter into the { home life.
 This of course does not imply that the | work of the mission, which has always [ been for all classes, will be in any way and specialized, but rather that it will be extended in this particu- lar direction in which the need has been manifest.
 At the recent meeting of the directors of the City Missionary association, a very favorable report was made by the building committee with view to the immediate erection of the new mission house. As result of this. meeting the committee were authorized to have prepared plans for building not to exceed in cost $25. 5.OO0 It is now con- fdently expected that by July i ground will be broken on the mission building lot on Orange street, between Elm and Court streets, and that the building will be completed during the coming winter.
 The building committee of the City Missionary association is composed of Messrs. Pierce N. Welch, A. E. Row and, w. D. Mossman, John M. Peck md John T. Sloan Rev. T. B. Will ,on, the financial secretary of the as- ;ociation, is also secretary of the build ng committee, and Is endeavoring to ecure sufficient subscriptions to enable he association to build without incur
 ing a debt The fact that l.. w. Rob- nson one of New Haven's most ex- architects, is making the ,lans and will be in charge of the con- truction of the building, ensures sub tantial and satisfactory addition to the public buildings of the city,