The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30

Several thousand delegates from all over the world are expected to attend, as 5000 invitation cards have been issued to the various branches. Two of those cards have been sent to this branch at Robinson Springs.
 A Sunshine Carnival in Carnegie Lyceum will be the event of the season in New York city May 2oth. Several hundred children will take part in a spectacular drama as part of the festival
 In the State of New York there are 300 branch Sunshine Clubs. This means that Tn that State there are 3O0 branch presidents
 When the General Federation of Wo- mans Clubs meet in Los Angeles, Cal, this year on April 23rd. the largest dele gation represented there will, perhaps, be that of the International Sunshine Society A special Sunshine train will be run from New York to Los Angeles con veying the delegates and Sunshine mem bers who would like to take the trip at Sunshine rates to that significant and i'm portant feminine function.
 There are now over 100000 members oi the Sunshine Society scattered over the whole world. Of course the largest num- Der are in American branches, but Great Britain, Sweden. Germany, British America and British India. Cuba. the Philippine and the Figi Islands and no doubt many other lands have Sunshine clubs The President General says she has faith to believe that in two years the number will be swelled to 50O,000.' If it continues to remain non-sectarian and not under the control of any outside body there is good reason to predict that it will rise in numerical force to million q, GOO OOO) in three years less time.
 There are about fifty branches of 1t now in Chicago and Illinois. Sixty in New York city, Thirty i'll Buffalo. N. Y.. with d membership of 10000. Of these 1900 are school children and 500 teachers in private and public schools. Each school seeks its own way to scatter Sunshine and good cheer.
 The Sunshine branches in Alabama and Georgia have been most active in start ing free. circulating Sunshine libraries The one started last May in this rural neighborhood has circulated books and magazines to over two hundred readers. men. women and children whose names are recorded in our Book of Borrowers of the Sunshine Library of Robinson Springs"
 one of the two Sunshine branches of Greenvlle, Ala, made its first enroll ment of members with this branch, and they have now circulating library of their own and a large and increasing membership. Another branch of the 1. $. s. has also been enrolled in Greenville and still another branch originating from d correspondence with this one, has be- gun work in Waycross, Ga.
 The Sunshine correspondence from this branch has reached proportions far be- yond the expectations of the members or their means to carry 1t on. Our rural population here is too scattered and Agrarian to accomplish what might be done from such city as Montgomery. The movement has taken a too wide spread field, and worldwide popularity for the citizens of our State capital 10 neglect the opportunities and advanta- gcs which it offers for the promotion ol beautiful deeds. kind thoughs and sociaI amenities throughout the world. Mfs' Alden says it embraces in it's member ship not only Hindoos, Filipinos and Flgi Islanders, but every religious denomina- tion. Jews as well as Christians and ] will add Catholics as we'll as protestants, for Mrs Mckinley, the widow of our late Iamented martyr President has her name enrolled in the Connecticut Divis- ion of the l. s. s. and she is a Roman Catholic and I am one more at least. NIv Promoter in the League of all Christians and Apostleship of Prayer. l.. $. H., has expressed full appreciation of the part 1 have taken in the Robinson