New Britain herald., 1916-02-04

in appreciation glorif1ed our office for days to come.
 A young American girl of IS or 19, married to an Italian, was found in a furnished room in a rear tenc- ment. The rest of the house was very scantily furnished and far from clean; but she had taken pride in making her tiny room neat and at tractive, and to it she welcomed the Italian children of the tenement in which she lived. She is a Protestant brought up to attend church; now she is married to a man differing from her in language and in belief, with the result that neither of them at- tends church. This is a place where we hope by frequent visits to turn the thoughts of their young life toward spiritual things.
 In a basement home two German girls of Il and IA are found keeping house for their father out of school hours, as they are without a mother $ care. They have need of all the friendship and oversight we can give them through visitation, the sewing schood and the clubs at the Y. w. C.. A.
 The sewing schools have already
 
 ure to speak with appreciation of the loyal and self sacrificing devotion Of the teachers in both schools and to say of them as St. Paul did of his helpers: These are my fellow workers unto the kingdom of God which have been 8 comfort unto me.
 You will see in the printed report that 17 children and adults have been gathered into church and Sun day school during the year. This tells only part of the story, for where we have been able to induce a few here and there to attend, they, in turn, have brought many others, so that the total number gathered 'n is much larger. Among others, is an Italian family found by the assistant missionary more than year ago, Tn great poverty and suffering. She was able to help them at time when help was sorely needed, with the re- suit that they said to her, I've want to go to the church where you go; we like a religion that makes you so kind and good to us.' Now, the three older children are regular at tendants at Sunday school. and the father and mother earnest adherents of the Italian Mission. When Sun day school for Italian children, still too decidedly in the rough to feel at home in a regular church Sunday school, was started by MT. Pesaturo and his daughter, we were privileged to contribute some of the charter members, and since their removal to other fields of labor we have fallen heir to the whole responsibility of this work. It is a wonderful privi- lege to give to these Italian children their first opportunity to hear the beautiful Bible stories to which they so eagerly listen, and to teach them the hymns which they so love to sing. This work was started in October so it is still in it's infancy and we are not yet working very scientifically, but we hope, with an increase In numbers to become duly graded and admitted to the best society in Sun- day school circles.
 We need to think back through the intervening months of rain and s1eer, snow and vapor, to the days when an outing into the country was really desirable, and if you will try to re- member what some July and August days can be in a crowded tenement you will realize more fully what it meant that 187 women and children were taken for outings last summer. Most of these were by way of the trolley lines but some never-to- be-f for gotten rides were in what one of the delighted participants called "water- mobiles Most of us here, probably, were past the golden age of childhood when we took our first automobile ride, and could scarcely have felt the thrill that these children of few pleasures experienced when for the first time they were seated inside one of these wonderful machines which had hitherto been to them only au rushing monster to be avoided with all haste. It is quite a different matter to be riding in one and see less fortunate individuals hurrying out of our way. The few who had this great privilege were as appreciative as the Irish woman who once said to me after her first ride, "I never expected to ride in one of them things unless I went in the patrol wagon"
 r. Other Pleasures.
 It has been our privilege to dis pense other pleasures, at Thanksgiv- ing and Christmas, through the kind ness of interested friends. but there is not time to tell you of them in detail. We are grateful for all the interest and cooperation shown us by so large 8 number, and we hope that still others may seek an ac- quaintance with our daily round of work. The City Mission field covers in areas practically the whole of New Britain and it seems to increase in size with every effort made to cover it; of the vast number of foreigners needing our help, you need not be reminded; the force of workers giv- ing full time to the service of this society consists of Miss Brehovsl1v and myself; and what are we amona