Evening star., 1903-09-05
Aunt Dorothy's Letter
Dear Children:

our peasant letters Keep CoiiilH6 Ia eAA~
my answers keep going out Please ad-
dress all your letters IN care of the editor
OF this page, and they will then be an
swered more promptly. Do this with the
league correspondence also. as New York
Is to be our main center this year and let
ters are to be forwarded to us from the
newspaper offices. using the league centers
as The Star does for you. If you wish to
open I'D a pleasant correspondence with
league members you can send on your
names and addresses for this purpose and
we will print them from week to week and
invite the others to write to you. 1t Is
very pleasant pastime to exchange notes.
especially If you select children in far-away
places to write to. We can give you ad-
dresses from any part of the world You
can copy from your replies and send In to
us such portions as you think will be of In
terest to our club and other readers. VIII
Pearl ,Philpitt please write to Aunt Dor
othy and tell her about the little cripple
and the rocking chair? Suzanne Y.S letter
for the Faithful Friends. sent with 50 to
Mrs. Harriet Wood. Darien, Conn, ap-
peared In acknowledgment this week in
the sunshine department OF the Brooklyn
Times and we reprint 1t here for your
pleasure. since 1t was written by a Wash
ington member and the club Is a Washing
ton Star Circle. Here it is:
FAITHFUL FRIENDS
Mrs. Harriet Wood. President Sunshine
Lodge. Darien. Conn.
Dear Mrs. Wood You do not know who
1 am. do you? 1 am one OF Aunt Dorothys
little girls-little helpers. Early this sum-
mer read a letter asking children to form
a league to earn money to send poor chill
dren to your lovely country home began
to get girls together and soon found five,
all as eager as myself. Three dropped out
and that left three First, we gave an en-
tertainment We had songs. recitations.
instrumental music and tableaux. The ad-
mission was cents. We made s. Soon
after this we gave a lawn party, and sold
cake. candy. lemonade and snowballs. The
admission was 10 cents for grown people
and . cents for children. This entitled
them to plate of ice cream each. We
made $3.50. We were very proud. OF
course. We now had s1O.5O. so 1 wrote to
Aunt Dorothy to ask her what we should
do with It. She said send 50 to Darien,
for that will send four children to the Sun
shine Lodge for a week She said, too
that the children would write US. We do
not want thanks. for 1t Is a pleasure for all
of US to work for the little children, but we
would like to know what kind of a time
they are having. Please find inclosed the
THE FAITHFUL FRIENDS.
By Suzanne r. Yerby.
Washington. D. c.
The books you have collected In your cir
cles for gifts may be sent to The Star Of
othy to examine and send out" 1 will
then send for them and let you know where
they can best be placed. II you think any
of these books would please the sailors of
the United States revenue cutter service
as all good boys books should do, you may
send them instead to Captain G. F Shoe
maker, chief of the United States revenue
cutter service, United States treasury
building. Washington. saying they are to be
added to the books Mrs Hogan is sending
for the sailors libraries. Two have already
been provided. one for the Thetis, now far
away, and the other for the Gresham, COM
manded by Captain Walker, and the leader
OF the patrol feet OF cutters for the cup
races of the Reliance and the Shamrock.
One of our boy members had the pleasure
OF watching the races from one of these
cutters and he enjoyed 1t immensely The
revenue cutters as you may know acted
toward the excursion steamers as our ordt-
nary policemen do to a crowd when we
have a parade-that is. they kept the course
clear SO you can understand why our
young friend had fine view. He took
several pictures OF the boats and he has
promised to lend them to US If they turn
out right Are not some of you ready for
camera contest? II so, and II YOU write
and tell us so, We will offer a money prize
1or September. Let US hear from you