New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-24


chairs yesterday. sixty pairs of tiny hands were
folded devoutly and sixty childish voices were
lifted in the little old fashioned childs grace.
God is great.
God is good,
And thank Him
For our food
It was at Srnnysde Nursery Nos 219 and 221 East
One-hundred- a nd -fourth-s The twelve babies were
I'm their cribs while the sixty-odd kindergartners
and 'runabouts' taking the last of the three
good meals day given them at the nursery. A
number of women who had called in the afternoon
watched the children grace. and said - how
sweet There numerous callers in the after
noon who were received informally by Mrs Cleve-
land H Dodge Mrs. Archibald Russell Miss Guy
Ter and Miss Sturges. The house was gay with
roses sent by members Of the board. and the happy
faces of the children were better ornaments still
Sunnyside been carrying on Its benehcent
work for seventeen years. but only for the last
three years present location. 1t was formerly
in Forty-second-st.. but the neShoorhood having
changed there 1t moved to Its present SITE
where it finds a fertile field for Its efforts Every
race EXCEPT the coIored Is represented In
its nursery but Italians chiefly found. 1t
draws largely from Little Italy. from One-hun-
dred -and-s seventh One-hundred- and-twenth St
Mothers who widows who have to help In
breadwinning leave their children from three
months to six years old. at the nursery all day for
five
The nursery has been peculiarly successful In
overcoming the naturally suspicious temperament
of the Italians. The kindly superintendent mas
made rule that every mother may take her oahy
upstairs hand II over the and go up after
it at night. Sometimes an Italian mother VIII say;
Il where my baby sleep; want to see
where my baby eat" She is perfectly welcome to
go through place and inspect everything. see
the children at play and at their meals. Then she
IS always satisfied
II think it is perfectly natural for mother who
cannot speak the language 10 make such re-
quest" says the IF you treat the Italians
picion.'
The board of managers bought the two houses
occupied By the nursery last summer, threw them
together and reftted them entirely at large eX-
pense Eleven thousand children were cared toT III
the last year The Belknap sumner iiomc; "a, r ~ ~
her child was also opened last summer. Two
nurseries-Sunnyside and the Bryson-suPport 1t and
sha benefits. This summer each Will send
down parties of twenty at a time to stay month,
There the babies will live out of doors and play the
whole DAY long The amount of good this full
month in the country does for the health OF the
toddlers can hardly be estimated +. 49,. .,.,u-,u
one of the most interesting sights in the nursery
is the clean, bright pantry off OF the oabeS ware arc
they are all fun Of Pasteurzed milk, prepared with
formula of a well known New-lork physician The
babies thrive cxcellently on this-so wei mat a.
penny a bottle to the mothers of the young chill,
dren Last summer they prePart1 5 motherg IT
makes desirable change from the die, OF CON
U Which th il'i ToungsterH ordinarily get
I'VE know they feed them garlic Water says the
Monday. Monday is dreadful day she wen vent on:
child S s9nd Ia Noddtngs but milk Pshaw He
know YOU fed il peanuts No no. si=nore; holdings
hut milk one Italian mother boasted to me one
day that her baby. year old. ate everything Just
the same a : grownup; no more bottle
So far did the fame Of the penny bottles spread
that many mothers not patronlZing the nursery
came to buy. They had TO he refused as the man
agement not prepared TO serve the pubic: 9oi
II would be a most useful work could II he carried
ont Talks with the mothers on the care of babies
and little pamphlet printed in English and Italian
circilated among them have had beneficial effect
Tho front room downstairs Is to be htted up with
cots for The Older children to have daily nap. 1T
has a moral as well as "A physical effect" says the
Some children are never good without II
nan and all children a great deal sWeeter tenn
perrd for IT, And II is peculiarly nerdful mere.
where the children up late. Sometimes th"v
chase the streets till nearly midnight. and ihen
thev are cross and sleepy all day in the nursery.
The nursery is a blessing not only 10 the babies
themselves but the little mothers and ,lttIe
fathers Of the neighborhOod who thus get chance
to go to school The reception to all interested VIII
be reneated this and tomorrow afternoons