New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
QUARTERLY REPORT
 OF CITY MISSION
Work Being Done Is Shown By
 Miss Bartlett

The quarterly meeting of the New Britain City Mission was held last evening in the quarters of the organ 1zatlon on Main street. President E. W. Wlghtman presided No report was received from the finance commit tee.
 Miss Caroline Bartlett submitted her quarterly reports as follows:
 Miss Bartlctt's Report.
 January brought many cold and stormy days, and the bad weather, to- gether With the many cases of illness in all parts of the city, lowered the at tendance at our two sewing schools and made it difficult to accomplish as much as We desired i'll many ways. At the Lafayette school it was thought best to close the regular sessions for two weeks On account of the large amount of sickness among both teach CTS and pupils. Miss Brehovsky and I kept the children together and gave them other forms of instruction, but it was impossible to go on with the sewing with out the usual corps of teachers and the children very plain ly showed that they did not consider it the real thing
 ''Other events have cOnspircd to lower the attendance at this school One day it was a com bnation of the Epiph any season and the Greek Cath olic Christmas that kept away many Polish. Italian and Russian children: and We could only be thankful that there was no special Jewish obser- vance on the same day. Most of the time at the office has been spent in clerical work, but there nave been number of calls here of special inter- est. The young Italian spoken of in the annual report who came here from New York, where he was a member of a, City Mission church, came one Monday evening to the of fee. Since that time he has begun at tendance at the South church Sunday school and has joined the Y. NJ. c. A.. and the hearty and prompt cO-opera- tion of tho workers in both places were of the greatest assistance in bring ging this about
 Miss Brehovsky's Work.
 Miss Brehovsky has made large number of visits during the past weeks in spite of the many stormy days. In ono Polish family, where the woman was sick, she was of thA greatest help in interpreting TOT the doctor and visiting nurse. They had great trouble in getting the woman to take proper noulishment and on one occasion Miss BrehoVsl<N cooked her dinner for her. Through her V1sl's to this family. she became acquainted with another Polish family Ill great need and went with them to the city charities where she served as inter- preter. This led to ahothef oppor- tunity of the same klnd, ana She re- ports: As I was coming out met Polish woman who asked me II uh- derstood Polish ana crHlhs' begged
 me to 90 in with her and talk for her. went back with her. Her husband died about a month ago and she was loft ,,nnrovided for with a fifteen nonths-old baby. She was so gfateIul cl,a wanted to give me a dollar. On another dav a visit to young Amer ica, oir1 recently married to a for eigner is reported She says: Read and prayed with Mrs. p who said with tears in her eyes that she had not heard a prayer for over two years
 Teaching English to Mothers.
 '"rhe students from the Kennedy School of Missions, who are doing some work in New Britain in connec- ton with their course of study, nave thus reported concerning their work nere Several of us this year, have been spending an afternoon each week in teaching English to foreign mothers Tn their own homes. This means first of all the growth of real friend ship between teacher and pupils which leads to opportunity to help in other ways than just the teaching of 2 language. But it means also the chance for the foreign mother to be- come ever moro and more familiar with the use of the language of the people among whom she is becoming a citizen and in whose schools her chil- dren are being educated. You would not doubt I1cr real appreciation of