Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04
Sunshine.

My dear Little Sunshners:
You have had a letter from your presl-
dent-general this time l am going 10
try and make your acquaintance. Mrs.
Hogan. your president, has given me per-
mission to write you few words OF en-
coura cement and suggestion. l know 10
begin with that you are all earnestly at
work scattering sunshine wherever you see
an opportunity. and isn't 1t strange tha'
any one should ever ask what he can DO
to make others happy. The world IS 50
full of little folks who never see any or the
bright side of life that If any one. young
or old will but turn his head, he will see a
child CRYING with a broken toy, girl VINO
is inconsolable because her only doll Is a
cripple. boy who has lost the choicest OF
his marbles. an old woman, blind perhaps,
who cannot find her spectacles. or an aged
man too feeble to walk alone trying TO
cross a crowded street.
There may be a little cripple down your
block who cannot walk because he has no
crutches. Did you ever think that 10 cents
each from twelve or fifteen children, VINO
would not miss that amount OF CANDY
money. would buy pair for this grippe
and enable him to get out and breathe
Gods fresh air and see the lovely beauties
OF nature in the park and fields.
Do YOU ever think that many little child
of gentle and refined parents never has a
Christmas because her parents are too des-
titute to give Santa Claus the money to
buy a present? A lovely mamma in Ar
kansas has written to me:
NV little Alice, six years old, has never
had a doll. We live on the side of hill
and she has been told that we are so Tar
up Santa gets rid of his load before ne
starts up the mountain. She has heard
that some of her friends have been rem en-
bered by the Sunshine members, and her
mother saws that she has transferred her
affections from Santa Claus to the sun
shine Society and is telling her playmates
that Sunshine will bring her doll Christ
maStine. / am that Sunshine Will.
for 1 have whispered her name into the ear
of a member. who says she Will see that
this little girl receives a gift.
Little Alice is only one of a large class,
and l wish every one of Mrs. Hogan's big
band of sunshine workers would begin W
anw work hard gathering pennies for
empty stockings.
If you want a mite box to gather them
in write to me at headquarters and one
will be forwarded. Be sure and send your
full name and address. Under the direction
of Mrs Hogan you are going to become a
power in our society. Our junior workers
are the most enthusiastic. Won't 1t be fun
to make Santa Claus Jealous Of us?
If you forget everybody else, do not for
get Alice Santmier of JOS Broadway, Buff
falo, NY. Alice is only six years old. Never
theless. for three years she has been eyes
for her papa. Mr.. Santmier became blind
from seasickness three years ago, and his
only guide has been his little daughter,
from whom he has not been separated for
a day since this great calamity befell him.
Little Alice has golden brown hair and
brown eyes. If she but looks at you once
you feel something choke yOu and before
you have time TO know why, you find your
eyes are full of tears. Only six years old.
but with such responsibility on her little
shoulders
Mr. Santmier said the other day. when
little Alice took his hand and poked his
fingers through the big holes in her only
hat, "Never mind, little one; the holes are
there so that the sunshine can kiss your
golden hair She taking her
q place four miles away. She had to lead
him there and lead him back. One would
scarce think such tiny feet could make
such journey in one day.
There is a mamma who maintains the
family by keeping a restaurant, and then
there is another dear little girl just three
years old. Alice said she had one dolly
once, but II she ever growed up and could
earn any money she was going to get big
one. Maybe somebody will send Alice a
dolly now. Maybe somebody will send her
a pair of shoes. and little dress, and hat
that hasn't two holes in 1t.
She wears a sunshine badge The presi-
dent general pinned it on her 81 she never
goes without IL Write TO me right away.
Don't walt day.
MARY d. BEATTIE,
Secretary International Sunshine Society.
Junior Branch News.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-The Junior Sun
shine Branch members of the Bethany
Presbyterian Church are earnest Sunshine
workers They have recently made articles
for the children of the Babies Home. In
milwaukee,. and are at present engaged in
making quilt for needy person in that
city. They report regularly to headquarters
and are always ready TO respond to any call
upon them for help in scattering sunshine
ASSINIPPI, Mass-A Junior Sunshine