Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-10-11
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL NEWS
REST ROOM OPENING
Quarters in Emerson Building,
Elliot Street, Ready
w. C. T. w., Woman's Auxiliary Of the
Y. M. c. A. and Board Of Trade Co.
operated in the Good Work.


operated in the Good Work.
The Bratteboro rest room will open
tomorrow morning in the Emerson build
ing on Elliot street and will be open
during every week day hereafter. The
idea of having a pleasant and convenient
place where women who come into town
to do their shopping could rest and re-
fresh themselves before starting home
again has been in the hands of a number
of people and organizations who have
the best interests of the town at heart
some years and now the rest room, in
form better than was even hoped for,
is an established fact. Though the plan
had been considered by various organiza-
lions i'd was for the w. c. r. L. to take
the initiative and secure the quarters in
the Emerson building. The womans
auxiliary to the Y. M. G. a. cO-operated
by furnishing the rooms and making them
attractive and the board of trade lent
it's support by contributing TO the tnan-
cial support of the enterprise. With
these three representative organizations
behind it the plan is bound to succeed
The quarters secured are especially
well fitted for the purpose, being large
and well lighted with windows that afford
a good outlook on the street. In some
ways a location on Main street would be
preferable but there is nothing to be had
that could be made as attractive as these
rooms and their location is rather IA
vorable on account of being opposite to
the Grange store where a large number
of the farmers make their last stop be-
fore starting home. The women can
spend their time waiting in pleasant sur
roundings and be ready to start home
whenever the men are through with their
business in town The rooms are one
flight up on Ine easterly end of the
building and have been remodelled to
meet the needs of a rest room such as
none of the organizations interested
could have hoped to establish alone
The shutting up of the Y NJ. G. a.
rooms made it possible for the woman's
auxiliary to move their plano, books,
tables, pictures and other furnishings
into this room and make it very attrac-
tive at no cost In return for losning the
furnishings the auxiliary will have the
room to meet in and for any other pur-
pose they wish. These meetings will in
no way interfere with the usefulness as
a rest room for the quarters have been
divided to afford ample accommodations
for both.
Without the assistance of the board of
trade it would have hardly been possible
to have established so good "A rest room.
The matter has been brought up before
the directors of the board of trade in
several ways and at a meeting held in
the summer it was voted to appropriate
a certain sum of money each month
toward the support of rest room. When
the w. c. Il. L. secured these quarters
their plans were explained to the direc-
tors and at a meeting Tuesday night IT
was voted to apply this money to the
assistance of this rest room. Neither the
w. c. I. u. nor the womans auxiliary
could have hoped to keep up such room
without regular financial help from some
source as neither are large money making
organizations and both have uses for
all the funds they can raise.
The part of the w c. r. L. will be to
manage the rooms and keep them i'm
shape for the greatest effectiveness Mrs.
Harriet Tucker will be the matron and
will be at the rooms from $50 o'clock in
the-mefning until in the afternoon. No
attempt will be made at present to fur
nish luncheons but there will be ample
facilities for a woman TO bring a lun-
cheon and eat it in quiet and comfort
Arrangements have been made so that a
cup of coffee or tea may be secured at a
nominal price. The fundamental prin-
ciple will be to make the rooms as home
like and attractive as possible to every
woman who, cares to make use of them
AS times goes on and the needs are more
clearly seen new features will be intro
duced to add to the effectiveness of the
plan.