Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

fruit-fgs, grapes and pears. They wiped
the figs and pears with cloths, and cut the
grapes into lunches of proper size, laying
to one side all that were bruised and unfit
tor distribution. In closet adjoining
were shelves of iellies and preserves, made
| from this bruised fruit. Mrs. Theodore
Smith gives the use of her kitchen every
| Friday afternoon, and the Mission has
thus one hundred pounds of fruit its mem.
| bsrs have just put up with their own hands.
But dear me! they want more this supply
won't begin to meet the demand. In an
| other little room was the Secretary, Miss
Elliott. She answers everything you want
| to know, by mail acknowledges receipt of
baskets and tells in what condition the
fruits and flowers arrive, then returns
thanks. In cupboard was the toy closet.
Last Christmas the Mission advertised for
BROKEN TOYS,
Then it hired man to come in and tinker
them up, the ladies themselves painted
them as good as new, and made use Of
them by giving them on a Christmas tree
to seventy-five children. Toe closet still
holds some toys for like occasion. The
used by the members, who work from 8
| till l, bring their lunches and eat it all
| together there. Swain, the restaurateur of
Suffer street, sends them, ous of compli.
ment, coffee, cake and biscuit every Thurs-
day-a com Dliment fully appreciated l az
| sure you. Another closet was used as 6
| receptacle for old clothes, which were neat.
ly folded away on shelves, the lower shelf
being given up to shoes. The library
was OF no small Importance, it being
circulating library most truly,
since as long as book or magazine can
be made to hold together it travels about
from one to another. They are mended,
pasted, glued, sewed, and then all is done
over again, till the book is obliged to be
gwen up. One package was Just made up
for the Folsom State Prison, though the
Mission furnishes nothing beside to the
Ialis. They have been solicited to visit
the prisons, but they are afflicted with no
sentimentality, and consider such places
unfit for their visits. Apsckage of singing
books and lesson papers was also ready for
some struggling up country Sabbath.
school, Every place the Flower Mission
goes it meets the cry of
"READING MATTER"
sob do give me something to read :"
and this great want it endeavors to supply.
Nearly $1,000 papers have been received
the past year. Any sort of good literature
is welcome, "from grave to gay, from
lively to severe" Miss Clara GTeeuebaum
is Librarian, and Miss Bessie Raymond,
her active sistant | haye not vet spoken
of the President, Miss Mary D Bates, a
young lady both popular and efficient in
her office. Everything is her duty, and
she has the head to see to it all. From the
giving an order for flowers without fra.
GRANGE for such an one, to remembering
wish for some particular delicacy, you will
had her equal to it AL. Some of the bas.
kets were ready packed, some for private
cases and one for the Old Ladies' Home.
Ia the latter were flowers in nosegays,
fruit and one or two special articles, glass
of blackberry jelly for one old lady IN par
tlcular Another contained the flowers
without fragrance, a little frui5, three fresh
eggs and some tamarinds, for which the
sick woman, a private case, has longed.
While | looked ab3ut, : young man, a
good-looking young man, with light mus.
taohe, came in. l can imagine how such a
young man could fancy it a fine thing to
see such nice lot of girls in bunch, bat
| felt like saying,
LORD HELP YOU, YOUNG MAN
As he stood there awkwardly holding his
hat while the girls surrounded him and
talked business to him. l shouldn't wen
der II ne got out Of there as quickly az he
could, but it is very different thing when
Rev, Mir. Citizens comes with a word Of
cheer, or some other earnest man lends the
help of his presence.
| wish my friends could visi: the Frait
and Flower Mission for themselves. They
may. if they choose The rooms are on
Mission street, inst above Third, with the
name in large letters, which cannot be
missed. Go on Thursday morning, tell
where you came from and be surs you will
be well received. l saw Miss Mary Bates.
Miss Fannie Elliott, Mss Mary Eldredgs,
Miss Ella Browning, Misses McDsrm5tt
Conner, Loring, Story, Regensberger and
Goldstein, Misses Morse, johnson, Dan
| forth and Kaufman. Mcs. Samuels, Miss
Fannie Bolton and Miss Lena Gibbs, and
they will every one take pleasure in show
ing you
ALL THERE Is TO BE SEEN.
Go afterward to some of the places they
visit and see their distribution. They visit
the Founding Asylum, the San Francisco
Female Hospital, Old Women's Hospital,
City and County Hospital, French Hos.
pital, hospital for Women and Children,
but have been obliged to drop the German
Hospital from their list, because-think OF
it they haven't had enough flowers TO
go round. They also visit the Old Ladies'
Home, Infant Shelter, Old Peoples Home,
Chinese Mission, Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
Aims House, the Christian Associations,
and different large millinery work rooms,
glove factories and dres:making establish
ments, besides the Wooden Mills. When
called upon, different members OF the Mis-.
sion are detailed to assist at church fairs
or lunches, twenty, for instance, assisting
at the dolls fete held at Platt's Hall some
time ago.
Ministers preach charity sermons go many
times year. This has been eossipy sort
OF discourse of mine, but / hope some one
may fiud the sermon in it. If | have not
yet succeeded in reaching the heart Of any
hope my closing sentence may. A branch
OF little girl workers in the Western Addi-
ton set their brains and fingers to work to
devise something pretty, something anus
ing, something interesting in the way of
scrap book-for the delight of whom? Fer
the delight of " Mamie" of whom l have
written before, and who lies an incurable
cripple in the City and County Hospital
misshapen in body, twisted in limb with
rheumatism, with nothing but the smile on
her lips aad the shine in ker eyes to tell
that she knows what life is
KATE HEATH.
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