New Britain herald., 1915-06-26
.CHILDREN'S HOME
 ANNUAL MEETING
Rev. ]. E. Klinsberg Reports on
 Work Of the Past Year

An idea of what an important role the Children's Home plays in this city can be gleaned from the report of Rev. J. E.. Klingberg made at the an- nual meeting of the officers last eye ming at the Rackliffe Heights site of the proposed new building. The re- port shows that the contributions, to this worthy cause are numerous and of generous nature and that ex- penditures are made wisely and with an eye to setting best results.
 At the election of officers Henry S Walter was chosen president Other officers elected were vice president, H. .. Capen; secretary Charles l.. Morse; treasurer, E.. K. Neumann; auditors William J Judd and George P. Spear.
 The report of MT. Klingberg was as follows: fgS
 At the last report there were at the beginning of the year 61 boys and 56 girls or IF children in all under our care in the houses. Since then seven more have been received and if no changes had taken place there would be in all at the present time 124 chil- dren in the home. But. of these 124 five have returned to their relatives and.two have died, leaving IF under our care at the close of the year, of whom 60 are boys and 57 girls They belong to- not less than eleven differ ent nationalities, and thus it will be seen that the home is cosmopolitan in it's character. Some of the children have come to us from the western states at a distance of thousands of miles; others have come from the cities and villages of New England and a few from New Britain. But they do not recognize each other as Amer jeans, or English, or Swedes, or Ger mans, but simply as John, Jack, Car rie, Annie, Mary, etc. They mingle help each other They seem to know the divine statement made by Paul in Athens that God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the facesof the earth.' In connection with this will also say something in regard to their education. The chil- dren, both boys and the girls, have had the privilege as in former years of attending the public schools in New Britain and have been in- structed in reading, writing, history, geography, arithmetic. music. draw ing, together with manual training for the boys and domestic science for the girls. Seventeen have attended the grammar school and four the public high school.
 Taking everything into considera- ton and keeping in mind the many difficulties and serious obstacles that have been i'll the way of many or them their school record IS as good and high as that of children Tn gener- al. or course it must be admitted that some of them are poor in studies that require a child to be naturally gifted in order to make a marked progress such as music, singing. drawing, etc, but in reading, writing, spelling, geo. graphy and history they have as far as we can judge from the report cards done well. while on the other hand there are not a few that are real bright. The study of the Holy scrip lures has been carried on there as usual in the different houses. morn ings and eenings.
 Health of Children Is Good.
 During the year their have been few cases or COuldSiOuS dioUeASSo among the children of the various houses. There have been three cases of diphtheria at the Boys house on Rackiiffe Heights. two cases of diph- theria at the Girls home on Hart street. At the present time there is no sickness at any of the houses and with the exception of the few cases mentioned, there has been very httle sickness among the children during the year. This is due in large part to the good carefulness of the at tendants.
 Gifts to Home.
 Rev. MT. Klingberg further re-. ported, Ever since the commence ment of this work we have been greatly concerned regarding tilh spiritual condition of the children, ir fact we have looked upon this as something that is of far greater irl- portance than anything else in con- nection with their training. The Cos pei of Christ Is ''the power of God unto salvation to everyone that be- lieveth" and we believe that this