Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-13

make fancy articles, etc. Las. June they
held bazaar and lawn party, which gave
them $96 for the nursery.
band of children, between the ages OF
ten and fifteen years, compoSeS the Jessie
Holland" circle of Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
They go to the almshouse. prisons and hos
pitfalls to sing for the inmates.
There are Ill branches of the Information
al Sunshine Society in Pennsylvania, with
10000 members.
A most acceptable box of clothing was sent
to headquarters by Junior Sunshine branch
of !Alyerton, Pa.
JUNIOR SUNSHINE BRANCHES.
A band of ten girls in Bloomfield. N. j.,
meet regularly to do sunshine work They
are filling an empty stocking mite box, and
among other beautiful sunshine work done
is the making of warm Undertaking for a
helpless family of three small children,
whose mother goes out daily to earn money
for their support.
A box containing large number of dolls
has been sent from headquarters to Mrs.
]. F. Holcomb, Jhansi, India, who has a
sunshine branch there of little Indians.
These little sunshiners try hard to meet the
requirements of their sunshine pledge, ana
Mrs. Holcomb says it is really beautiful to
see their efforts. Dolls much respected
by children in India, especially black-haired
ones. Little children there do not throw
dolls around as they do here, but after they
have been sufficiently admired they are
and only taken out on great occasions. All
the little girls in India have very black
hair. They know nothing of the fair-haired
children of the western world; SO when
light-haired doll is put into their hands they
think it Is old. China dolls please them
most, as the climate is too warm for wax
to retain its beauty.
Mrs Holcomb tells the following pathetic
story: After the distribution was over last
year we found that one doll, large one
had been overlooked. We put it away and
soon had most pathetic call for 1t. "A
young wife was slowly dying of consump-
ton. Her husband was a banker, and her
home, according to their ideas OF comfort.
lacked nothing. The Wife was childleSS ana
had been neglected. In her suffering ana
loneliness she remembered the joy OF the
school children when they received, at
Christmas time, the dolls sent from Amer
lea. She sent a message to me asking II L
would not give her a doll. How glad was
/ had this one for her! The doll was
plainly dressed, but a visitor In the house
said Ii looked quite fine.
She was packed in box and sent to the
sick woman, herself little more than
child, and it brought her much joy. When
l called afterward to see her she had the
doll brought from another room, carefully
wrapped in a white towel to protect 1t, and
as it was taken out from it's wrappings the
child-woman looked at it with eyes of love-
1t brought her much comfort In her last
days"
Miss Agnes Hailman, president Of Ju-
nior Sunshine branch in st. Louis, Mo-.
writes that the branch she started with
few members year ago has grown into
two branches, one of seniors and the other
of juniors. This branch held bazaar No
yember % and % in the rooms of a mission
Sunday school in st. Louis for the purpose
of raising money for new chapel. AT this
bazaar there was a sunshine booth, the pro-
ceeds of which were divided equally be-
tween state and international headquarters.
A Junior Sunshine branch has been or
ganized in Perris, Cal, Mrs. Stella Gertrude
Plimpton, president. An entertainment to
raise funds for branch work is under way
and much Christmas sunshine will be seat
tered by these little ones. A collection for
the Christmas fund at headquarters Is taken
in an Empty Stocking Mite box at every
meeting of this branch.