The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-11
Day Nursery
 Delights Children

sat 731 Main street But with the abandon which comes of the ability to live fully in the present moment, \ she was busying herself with shining ' brown eyes full of curiosity and plump cheeks ablaze with health. entirely unconcerned as to the future. At Y two years old. there are so many more interesting things than the future to think about! For instance, the emrty tin can that curly headed little Lsnatz | was playing with or the rubber doll that Harry negHgently dangled from a hand that was Istless from malnu- i. triton. Harry was a newcomer.
 Poor Maria,' said Nurse Emma c. Hartlon, her eyes following the vivid . little Italian girl as she pranced hap v oily around the room. Pm afraid the roses will soon be gone from her cheeks. Hey Italian mother plays . street piano for a living. She says that with all the unemployment there is here. the street piano business pays so little that she can't aNord to stay : here. Tonight the whole family, the piano, and their bit of furniture is . truck. There are two other children, them, too, Rose coming for lunch, half and seven. We take care or them, too, Rosec oming for lunch | and after school is out, while the mother is out in the streets all day with the piano. They are going to live down on Cherry street, in New York, so I'm afraid it won't be long
 
 Maria'S checks"
 The large. light airy rooms of the spacious old home occupied by the Day Nursery offer ideal conditions for keeping baby cheeks rosy. There is a large lawn at the back with in ducements for play, including a big enclosure in the center for a sand pile, all in readiness for warm weather.
 Clean white cribs lined the walls of the sunny upstairs nursery where Maria, Ignatz. Harry and all the other babies were Contentedly playing. That is, all except one very tiny baby who lay in her crib and cried, because she couldn't see why life should be so unkind as to expect her to learn to drink from a bottle. just because her mother had to be away at work.
 A diet kitchen on this same upper floor provides food for the babies and they have their own dining room with a great circle of a white dining table on very short legs, inside the hollow center of which the nurse sits to feed the ring of babies around her. There are no high chairs there, the table being built dowon to the level of the tiny but sturdy little while chairs that are so low that two year old baby's feet can touch the floor.
 A few of the babies who hadn't -been coming to the Day Nursery long had the bloodless look of undernour- ishment, mute evidence that parents
  vide proper food Some babies come to the Nursery every day and others several days a week, according 10 how much work the mother can find. There are accommodations for 30 babies upstairs and about 80 children downstairs in the kindergarten de- partment. with a bit of squeezing, all though 50 children all told can be taken care of quite comfortably.
 The Day Nursery is open from $50 e "a. m. to D. m., so that mothers can ftake their children there in the morn ing and still have time to get to work promptly. A large downstairs room in which there is an upright piano serves for the morning kindergarten classes and playroom in the after noon. A frieze of paper rabbits and little chicks crayon cOlored. sug- gested that the children have been busy preparing for Easter. Another dining room with long tables and chairs a couple of sizes larger than those for the babies is provided on this floor. When parents can afford to pay for meals for their children. 0 cents a day is asked for their din ners. But meals are served free for those who cannot pay.
 Adjustable little slat cOuches along the walls may be let down to the floor and equipped with soft pads for the daily rest of two hours after the noon dinner. Since children are taken in from all parts of the city, care has to be taken to examine them each day as to throat condition and other indi- cations of disease. so that no child may expose the others to illness.
 Mrs. John R. Haring. the new superintendent of the Day Nursery on Main street, is assisteI by Miss Elizabeth Rogers. kindergartner and Miss Emma C. Hartlon. children's nursery. The DG- Nursery is only one of the activities of the Associated Charities. There is also the West End Day Nursery. conducted in the little church at 30 Silliman avenue, near the junction of Fairfield avenue and State street. This building has been used for the purpose since its former Baptist congregation moved into their new church. About 80 children are cared for there daily, in charge of Mrs. Mona Stokes. matron, and Miss Anne Hamilton, nurse.
 Other branches of the Associated Charities are the Hall Home Settle ment House. which houses the Girls club, the Mothers club and provides a strangers room for transient guests and also a few rooms for permanent paying guests, and Camp Omans. the summer recreation camp for children