Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . eral oversight over all activitiesin behalf of Italians. It conducts the social club, gives bene-fit performances for the Italian Red Cross, has started rug-weaving for poor Italian women, and gives an annualMardi Gras, the invitations for which read you andyour family. Almost all the Italian colony attends. Thephilanthropic Italian ladies of Chicago have organized aSocieta de Beneficcnza della Donne Italiane which meetsat Hull House. One of the aims sought has been to makethe foreign mothers more respected by their child
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . eral oversight over all activitiesin behalf of Italians. It conducts the social club, gives bene-fit performances for the Italian Red Cross, has started rug-weaving for poor Italian women, and gives an annualMardi Gras, the invitations for which read you andyour family. Almost all the Italian colony attends. Thephilanthropic Italian ladies of Chicago have organized aSocieta de Beneficcnza della Donne Italiane which meetsat Hull House. One of the aims sought has been to makethe foreign mothers more respected by their children, andto this end the work for mothers is given much prominence. All the settlements conduct classes in English and nat-uralization for foreigners, and, through the visiting nurseand the outings at summer camps, relieve much physicalsuffering, but, as the head-worker of an Italian social settle-ment said to me recently, What Italians need is less amuse-ment and more religion. Italians frequent the settlementsbecause of the advantages offered, but do they avail them-. THE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS CENTER (METHODIST EPISCOPAL),ENSLEY, ALABAMA The Cooking Class The Sewing Class Night School for Italian Men IRK \?[)lLlC LIBRARY Tl! t• K F Ci IONS ASSIMILATING THE ITALIAN 149 selves of these in order that they may be able to help othersless fortunate, or that they may become the moral leaders oftheir race? Frankly, no; only that they may better their own 1position in the world, or for the good times to be had, orbecause there they are able to pursue congenial studies, allworthy enough motives, but, without religion, tending todevelop a selfish pursuit of happiness, lacking the sense ofduty and of responsibility for service which the gospel ofJesus Christ instils. It is not enough that the social settle-ments should be an expression of the Christlike character ofloving service in the hearts of their supporters. We mustseek to develop the Christlike character in those we can b
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