Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-03
TO AID MISSION WORK.
Green Bay Conference Has Been
Asked to Support the
Movement.

Asked to support the
Movement.
milwaukee,. Wis. Sept. 10. 1908.
The management of the Good Samari
tan mission, 55S East Water street is
about 10 issue circular to the 30 En-
worth Leagues in Wisconsin soliciting
their aid IN promoting and enlargiug the
work. Mrs. r. q. Kohler. '2023 Wells
Street, viii address the minister's of the
wisconsin conference of the Methodist
church at Green Bay on the subject next
Week, when preliminary pamphlets win
DC distributed. The regular lot illustrat-
ed by photographs OF the mission and its
work will be sent ont shortly. They viii
ask for the sum OF 5000.
Would Help Men.
1.-The plans entertained regarding the en-
tTpriSe include the assistance Of both the
men of the neighborhood as we'll as the
boys and the girls. The city has not vet
reached that philanthropic and paternal
stage when it provides reading rooms,
baths and healthful amusement resorts in
its various congeSted ana poorer quarters.
There is no place to go except the saloon.
The mission hopes 10 transform its assem-
bly, room into a reading room and game
reom for men during the week and IL pos
Skut0 10 ttAlHAOA ulf aAANLuoAt WV Nta-i
supply coffee or sandwiches when called
for
Regarding the boys, it is realized that
something more than the mission work
is necessary to hold them during grow
ing experience and age. 1t is therefore
planned to fit up the basement with two
bowling alleys and other athletic and
amusement appliances, supplementary
these with bathrooms. These approXi-
mate the Improvements hoped for this
winter Others such as baths for the
girls on an upper floor may come with
afiiuenee. BY means Of these induce
ments it is hoped In raise the mission in
the estimation of boys, beSet with all the
false standards of manlinesS, and thus
keep them associated with good iutiu-
ences.
Lessons in Household Work
Still another innovation planned is a
class in kitchen garden designed to show
the little folks how to perform all the
manifold duties of the household An
outfit such as is used costs about S65.
The children are taught Ia make beds,
set the table, admit the visitor, and so
on. He or she learns the uses and The
qualities of wood mi learning TO make
the fire, for instance.
The mission already has classes OF girls
In sewing and cooking which have been
in successful operation for months
There is also a garden at the end of
Jackson street in which the boys and
girls have planted seeds, watched them
come M ava mature into fruit or flow
ers and back TO seeds again. Only part
of the space has been utilized but thar
has been kept clean and is now crept
over by rich lowered naSturtiums and
other plants. The children took away
not a few lunches OF lettuce, radishcs
and beans earlier in the season. A world
of the new has been opened to them in
this little garden-how the various seeds
look, how they grow, how the cultivation
OF corn differs from that of potatoes.
"Oh, I've got a cucumber so long" may
be the excited cry as the teacher comes
in sight. Stree that industrious and
kindly flower the nasturtium, has been
in bloom. the children have never gone
TO their homes without a glowing bunch
of them in their hands. While many
boys and girls have come off and on espe-
eially during the early summer, group
sof~half q dozen boys representing two
families on lower Juneau avenue have
been the most faithful. Prizes will he
awarded to the boy or girl having the
best vegetable and the best flower garden
The lads also took bouquets from their
plots to the exhibition of and contest
given by the American Park and Outdoor
Art association at Juneau park this
afternoon.
Weekly Mothers Meeting.
Miss Mary c. Powell, the deaconess
who is in charge of the mission, and Mrs.
Kohler hold u mothers meeting each Fri
day afternoon at the homes of the vari-
Gus mothers attending. Sewing Is done
for one or more of those present. The
hostesses take pride that their homes
present as neat and attractive an appear
Rnce for their afternoon as they can
secure by hard work
Miss Grace gaisler has had charge Of
the cooking class. In view of the well
known deficiency of American women
in the matter OF wholesome cooking tho
benefit of this work is apparent. Tho
class occasionally gives n public lunch.
The sewing class meets Tuesday after
Moons and is in charge of Mrs. Martell,
Whitefsh Bay, and Miss Bessie Kohler.
A Loyal Temperance legion. with separ-
ate classes for boys and girls, has been
organized within the past month by Miss
Mary Money. The practical bility Of this
work may be inferred from the remark
of one lad who had just turned Is that
he had not drunk any beer for two
weeks. Glasses in physical culture, IN
which assistance has been promised from
the Y. NJ. G, A.. arc also in contempia-
ton. The other activities Of the mission
consist Of the regular Sunday afternoon
Sunday school, gospel meetings Sunday
and Friday evenings, u game night
for the children now and t@2n, besides
the annual picnic and orca Siuuai pnFiir4.
The mission is situated in district noted
for its number Il saloons and worse
places. II is right on TIE ground. so 10
speak, ard feel, that il could we'll en-
large its sphere The endorsement of the
state president If the Epworlh leneu"
has been secured u the oircalaf. Even