Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-12
A Proposed Home for Con-
valescentS.
Interest in an Idea of the Hos
pital Circle.
Mrs. Landt's Paper on Much Needed
Charity.
A Proposition that shonld be Prompt
ly Made a Fact Accom-
plished.

Daughters held their first meeting to-
gether at Redondo Beach on July 4th.
The literary part of the programme
held in the pavilion, consisted OF the
devotional opening by Mrs. Birdsall,
president of the order in Los Angeles,
followed by the hymn, The Tie That
Binds, most sweetly sung by Mrs. W.
L. Hoover. followed by reports from the
different circles of Kings Daughters in
Los Angeles and vicinity.
A children's circle at San Pedro was
reported by Nettie Connor, pleasant
laced little girl, who told of their circle
and doing what they could to help the
poor. Sewing for one family and other
little acts OF kindness that they could
do, all in His name. The two circles of
San Pedro had united in giving Can
tata, from which they made over $40.
The Little Doorkeepers, another circle
from University Place, was most
interesting in it's report as given by
Helen sabaugh, who told OF the circle
at its beginning wanting to subscribe for
the Silver Gross, the magazine OF the
order, but having no money it resorted
to the original plan of each member
bringing one egg to each meeting. The
eggs were sold, and in this way money
put in the treasury.
Mrs. Mcintosh reported from st.
Paul's Episcopal church; this circle
numbers twenty-five members and is
working to sustain bed in St. PauPs
hospital.
Mrs. Marlette reported the Helping
Hand circle, whose efforts are devoted
towards assisting Mrs. Watson in her
girls home on Roder avenue.
One report followed another, all de-
failing charity work that is being done
in the most quiet way by earnest women
and young girls, of the order OF Kings
Daughters, the society that is now. the
largest women's society in the world.
After the close of the exercises, lunch
was served, and the remainder of the
day, till 5 O'Clock, was spent in happy
mingling together on the beach.
A NEEDED CHARITY.
Among other papers was the efollowing
by Mrs. Bertha Brouse Landt, which is
worthy of attention:
Since the organization of the order of
Kings Daughters IN our city, members
of the order have been in the habit of
visiting the county hospital, but within
the last few months circle has been
formed, known as the hospital circle,
who have taken it as their especial duty
to 20 to this abode of pain bound NOR
tails, visiting the different wards, speak
ing to the inmate of each narrow
cot words of comfort and hope, and
leaving besides many substantial
tokens of their presence, such as books,
sugar, cake, fruit, jellies, or other din
ties that the condition of the patients
may suggest. The visits of Kings
Daughtess are ever received with the
utmost pleasure, and when they leave,
longing looks from tear-wet eyes follow
their going and trembling voices ask II
they will come soon again. tits sincere
ly to be hoped that the hospital circle
will become large one; for here in the
place of the stranger sick people, there is
q bioad field wherein charitably inclined
women may do an unlimited amount of
good in an unostentatious way, and the
Kings daughters with their well-filled
baskets of food to the sick make
themselves particularly welcome to the
hospital inmates. Sometimes the hos
pital is over full and then, OF course, the
convalescing patients and those who are
very i'll are obliged to be in too close
proximity to each other, for lack of room
in the building. A convalescent's home
would be such grand appendix to the
county hospital. A home in the foot
hills or on the mountain side, where the
hospital could send its convalescing fever
patients, or those suffering from asthma;
and what boon such refuge as this
would be to those of the consumptive's
ward, where at times TWENTY-FIVE or
thirty men are confined, all breathing
the same infected air; those least affect
ed knowing they might grow better, but
never while inhaling the tainted atmos-
phere of the over-filled ward. But to the
Kings Daughters, who contemplate the
building of a convalescent's home
ever comes the question: What can such
q handful of weak women do? Patience,
my sisters, remember that some of the
grandest structures ever reared monu-
mental to charity's work were begun by
individual effort. Who shall say but
need of a cOnvalescent's home in con-
nection with the county hospital, the
King will put it into the heart OF some
man or woman to do this beautiful thing
for sweet charity's sake. There are so
many people of wealth coming every
year to this summerland by the sea.
Lured hither by its world wide promise
of health restoring power. Such as
these would gladly give in their graft
tude, we feel sure, could we
make them know the dream we
cherish of convalescent's home. Those
who came, alas, too late to find the lost
health they seek for their dear ones, and
only to leave them in our Gods acre,
would, if we asked them. help us in our
work of love. In the churches of Lon
don, New York, Chicago, and other
cities, there is annually one Sunday set
apart as "hospital Sunday" The con-
tributions of each church on that day
are devoted exclusively to the hospitals.
Los Angeles should copy this worthy
method to help the suffering inmates of
her hospitals, especially those OF the
county hospital, who are the truly help
less poor. And beside hospital work
the service of the order of Kings
Daughters reaches out into every path