Evening star., 1902-09-13
JUNIOR SUNSHINE SOCIETY.

As announced last week, Mrs. Hogan has been
appointed International president of the Junior
branches Of the Sunshine Society, 96 5th avenue,
New York. Of which Mrs. Cynthia Westovcr Alden
is founder and president general. Mrs Hogan has
communication with these Junior branches, and her
first letter is as follows:
To my Sunshine Juniors, wherever they may
be-
Dear Children: Mrs. Alden. our Sunshine
president general, as perhaps you know, has
asked me to be your international president,
and feel satisfied that we will have great
opportunity to scatter sunshine by work
ing together in the ways We are planning.
Many of you have already been told how,
just before the late President McKinley's
death, a number of children. under direc-
ton, worked hard to make other children
happy, doing it under the name of 1.-The
Children's League" Mrs. Alden has been
working in similar lines in establishing
Sunshine Junior branches all over the world
and we often spoke of joining in each
others work in order to strengthen it. This
has now been done, and it is going to be a
great pleasure to help you have a good
time, while, by your own efforts. you are
helping to scatter sunshine into the lives
of others less fortunate than yourselves.
How we are going to do this is our Sc
eret-a secret that will be disclosed to you
gradually on this page and perhaps else
where from week to week. AS hearty CO.
operation is the first step to take, hope
to hear from you in answer to three ques-
tions: First Do you want to help me?
Second, How will you do 1t? Third, What
shall we try to do first with our permanent
fund? Our national center for this fund
will be in New York for the present, at
Sunshine headquarters. committee there
will receive and acknowledge all contribu-
tions addressed thus:
THE SUNSHINE CHILDREN'S PERMA-
NENT RELIEF FUND.
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, SUNSHINE
SOCIETY,
SO 9Th Avenue, New York.
Contributions that you may wish to have
forwarded to the Mckinley memorial COM
mittee, in Cleveland, should be marked in
some way to show where they are to be
sent. You may wonder why I ask you to
help with the Mckinley memorial fund. 1
do this because the late President loved the
Sunshine work, and had he lived he would
have helped further the Children's League
movement to help others, just as he sup
ported me in other similar work. Both he
and Mrs. Mckinley loved to help those who
were helpless, as all true Sunshiners do.
Perhaps you do not know that Mrs. Nc
kinley even now takes an interest in Sun
shine work, In spite of her sad life and it
Is for this 1 ask you, first, to help keep
his memory green, while you go on help
ing others as happily as you are always
doing.
Part of our permanent fund will be de-
voted to securing more children's play
grounds, gymnasiums, libraries and gar
dens in public and private schools. So you
see you will be working for yourselves as
well as for others-at times-which is just
as it should be. We shall also have an
emergency fund. In this, my weekly Sun
shine letter, l shall tell you of many Sun
shine calls for help, and l shall look to you,
my dear children, to help me meet them. /
believe you will do this nobly. If you. too,
find places for Sunshine help, let me know
of them SO I, too, may help you. In this,
our weekly Sunshine exchange, we can
help ca ch other and have pleasant, happy
time. Do not be afraid that 1 shall ever
be like the old woman in the shoe who had
so many children she didn't know what to
do, for the more Sunshine children I shall
have the happier 1 shall be. Yours sin
cerely LOUISE f. HOGAN.