New Britain herald., 1917-09-25
CITY MISSION AND
 ITS SUMMER WORK
Report for Three Months Shows
 What Can Be Accomplished

The report of Caroline E. Bartlett follows:
 The City Mission has been excep- tionally busy in the past three months, having accomplished much good work in this short time. Sewing schools have been discontinued for the present to give more time to other work. Out ings have been given to the needy. A mothers meeting for Italian women has been started with success. The board is looking forward to opening new lines of work this winter. Report for quarterly meeting of the executive committee of the City Mis- sion of New Britain. September "A, 1917.
 The months since the last meeting of the board have been we'll filled with City Mission work, although it has differed somewhat in character from that of the fall and winter months.
 The three sewing schools closed in May, each with picnic at Walnut Hill park, and the time previously de- voted to sewing school work has been available for other things
 Miss Brehovsky's club for foreign girls at the Y. W. c. A. has been kept up, with the exception of the month
 
 Italian Sunday school has gone on without intermission, and the visiting has been done as usual. The first of June we started a mothers meeting for Italan women, which was held in the City Mission office. The women seemed much interested in this little meeting, all joining heartily in the hymns and Bible reading and listening attentively to the Bible talk given by Miss Campbell. Some who never come to the church services were among our most regular attendants, and some children were brought into Sunday school through this meeting. During August, Miss Campbell met with the women for Red Cross work and a good deal of knitting and sew ing for the soldiers is being done in the homes, The youngest of four very attractive little Italian girls died dur ing the summer of pneumonia and the mothers sorrow Is referred to in Miss Campbelrs report for August 29th. She writes: Mrs. Band three girls came to the office and stayed over an hour. Mrs. B. grieves all the time about the baby. She wants to do some l thing to take her mind from it, so 1 we went to the Red Cross rooms and
  l do more She said it would be better for her to do knitting than to go to 1 bed and cry herself to s1eep.'
 MT. Solimene, an Italian minister 1 from Hartford, has conducted the ser l vices at the Italian Mission here dur ing the summer, and cottage prayer meetings, or more correctly speaking, l tenement prayer meetings, have been l held on Thursday evenings In differ 1 ent homes. Miss Campbell and I l have attended these meetings and feel 1 that they have been very helpful. In one home, about eighteen or twenty were present, a number of neighbors 1 having been invited.
 Miss Brehovskys visits among the Slavic people are bearing fruit in their ready response to her friendship: l and her Christian influence among them cannot fail to help them to a truer knowledge of spiritual things. even though their church relations re- main unchanged. If the baby is sick, or the father is making the home miserable through drink, or a woman has been working and earned enough money for the unusual luxury of new | clothes for herself their first thought is to turn to the City Mission workers for sympathy and interest in their troubles and their less frequent joys.
 In a Polish family which the proba- ton officer asked Miss Brehovsky to visit, she has been able to render very practical assistance. The mother, who has suffered many things at the hands of her husband, has expert enced season of respite during his absence in jail; and although she had to support the family, she felt that that burden was light compared with the terror that reigned when her hus- band was at home. Now he has re- turned greatly improved, and declares that the best thing that ever happened to him was being sent to jail. The way of the transgressor may be hard, l but it is often beneficial.
 The sewing school statistics indi- cate almost as great variety of ma tionalities as were assembled in Jeru- salem on the day of Pentecost In the Methodist school fourteen differ ent nationalities were represented and in the Lafayette, thirteen. American,