The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-13
LEILA DAY NURSERIES.
MANAGEMENT GREATLY NEEDS
 FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

morrow--PracticaI work-Invitation
 to the Public.
 The committee for donation day for the day nurseries of this city met Sat- urday evening. The day set for mak- ing the solicitation is Wednesday of this week, November IA.
 The officers of the association are Judge Albert McC. Matthewson, presi- dent; Henry H. Townsend, vice presi- dent; William D. Scranton. secretary. Carl Beers, assistant secretary.
 The president appointed an execu- tive committee consisting of General George H. Ford, General Edward B. Bradley, John c. North, John T. Man. son, Seymour c. Loomis, James E. Wheeler Arthur " Phillips.
 The work is to be conducted on sim- liar lines to that heretofore done py the committee for the New Haven orphan asylum.
 The orphan asylum does not this year require the active aid of the com mittee, so it was decided last month to help the day nurseries. They are en- titled to the same consideration at the hands of the public that the orphan asylum as received. They assist the children in the same general way, but with this difference. In the asylum the children are taken to the institu- ton where they remain continuously during their connection with 1t. In the nurseries the children's home tie Is not broken, but they go to tn enursery only for the day returning to their home at night. While the mother is at work the child or children are cared for and educated and at night when she re- turns she takes her children with her. and the parental care resumed. The value of keeping the family to- lgether where that can bo done, is ines- timable. It does not tend to pauper- ize.
 | A need Is felt which Is not supplied even by the kindred charities, the two orphan asylums and the county home for children. Tn cases for these instttu- tons the family Is necessarily broken up, by illness or wrong-doing, and the children are given up, partly or entire- ly, by the mother In the scheme of day nursery work the family is pre- served, the children being cared for only through working hours. Tn New RHaven there is an unusually large num- Der of working women many of whom are widows or deserted by their hus- bands, and having little children de- pendent upon them The management Is in great need of more financial sup port to properly meet the requirements.
 The Leila Day nursery, 89 Greene street, will be open for inspection of the public from 2:90 to s p. m. on Wednesday. All are invited.
 Practical working of the Mothers Aid society is demonstrated at the day nurseries located at 69 Greene street and S11 George street, known respec- lively as the Leila and Hope Day nslr- series. Scrubbing, cooking, cleaning or laundering is secured by the matron from various homes, for the mothers who's echildren are cared for at the day nursery; the daily fee of five cents be- ing paid by the mother. The income from this one item in 1904 reached $9S2.75 A little mental calculation will give the surprising number of children housed and few for that year. Hot milk for babies, lunch at il a. m. for those old enough to feed then- lselves, a good, hot dinner at 12 o'clock 1 for another set, coming in from pub lie school and whose mothers are reg ular dependents of the nurseries. Clean hands and faces, sunny playroon, rest ful nap times, these are all daily conn forts The increase of the work from 1888, when the managers became an in corporate body by name, 'The Moth CTS Aid society" with an expenditure that year of $1, ,4Ss.06 shows double that amount after lapse of ten years.
 March A. 1902, commemorated the es- tablishment of a kindergarted at Leila day nursery, in the erection of brick
 
 The Hope nursery children are receiv- ed at Welcome hall Kindergarten.
 It is by reason of these nurseries that our city is spared the wretched- ness of the sight and the financial burr den of an addition to the almshouse to provide accommodation for these ui1- fortunates.
 "A child beomes either @ useful n1em- Der of a community or detriment and public care. It is during the first seven receptive years of life that the day nurseries exert their influence, tending to tn formation of upright and steady characters. Not only for present conn fort but for the sake of the adult years of these children, the day nur- series have assumed a task most phi lanthropic and important. Such work should have the hearty financial sup port of the community.