The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-12
SATISFACTION AND HOPE.

There is a certain satisfaction in see ing ones own views approved. The Journal-Courier congratulates itself, Its agitation tc obtain the opening of the Yale Art School and Peabody's Museum buildings on Sundays was talk en up by at least two other publica- tions in town, which saw the wisdom of the suggestion, and the result has been the announcement that has just come from the administration building of the University that the experiment of keeping the two buildings in ques- ton open on Sundays will be tried from next Sunday till the first of May. The hours will be from l till s in the afternoon. If successful it Is hoped to continue the custom In future years ton to the winter months seems to be wise one, on the whole. The discon- tinuance of the summer school will make but little activity at the campus in the summer hereafter. And the | fields and parks at that time of the year will be offering attractions hard to resist--attractions it Is not well to resist, fo1 when available and partak- en of, these communions with nature when in full bloom. are perhaps more stimulating to man physically and mentally than are all our art galleries and museums.
 The University hopes that the cus- tom will be a success. Certainly Pro- lessor Weir, of the Art school, and Professor Dana, of the museum, are enthusiastic about 1t It Is for the pub- lie generally to show it's appreciation of their decision. It must remember that the collections in these two build ings are very costly, that they repre- sent years of diligent work in collect ing them and that they cannot be re- placed in the vast majority of cases. IL
 must always be Hands off" Guard.
 will be In attendance to see to it tha,
 this warning is appreciated and ob. served Al interested, whether men
 women or children, if accompanied hs an adult, are invited" we are told. Ii
 is to he supposed that the condition
 applies only 10 the latter class, tho children. about whose admittancc there
 had been some little question. 1t wil
 now be the province of the adults
 that accompany to sec to it that thi.
 uncertainty has been groundlcss ant
 of everyone interested to make the at
 tendance so large that the University
 will be convinced that the custom mus
 he made fixture from year to year. I
 Is hut another instance of the ever
 nearing proximity Of town ant
 gown such as the New Haven of
 half century ago never knew
 Tn our editorial of December 20. il which this agitation was started. W, proposed another suggestion whicl was calculated to make our New Ha ven Sundays even bettrr. That wa , that the big stores in the center of th, city pull down their window shades oI the Sabbath as similar stores do il many of our larger cities, notably Ney York and Brooklyn. Let that be tn next thing in order Az we said at tha , time: "A New Haven branch of a bi . New York confectionery concern Is do f ing it here now. If looked at sanelv, i ' will he seen that there should be n , appreeiahle loss of trade as 3 result while. on the other hand. to the i'm f questionable .rird of the passin - throng, Sunday would he far bette
 differentiated as day apart from tn E ther six of the week.