Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-23
Aunt Dorothy's Corner

Dear Children:
You may remember when Aunt Dorothy
asked you to help get libraries for the
sailors on the revenue cutter service SHIPS.
Some of you responded, others did not.
After reading the article below you may
feel like helping again. If so send suitable
books that are in good shape to Captain
Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter
service United States Treasury building
Washington, d. c., stating that they are
for the Children's League libraries for the
sailors. One set Of books was sent to one
of his ships that went far away; announcer
set went to the sailors of one OF the survey
boats, now under the Department OF COM
merce and Labor. before they starred Tor
Key West; the third set is now being gath
cred by Aunt Dorothy and her frfends, ana
she hopes her little helpers will do all they
can. The books the sailors like best to
read are stories of adventure ana OF run.
Send ma gazines, papers, CARDS. etc. TO tne
address given below. as this society sends
out practically anything that was ever
printed. Magazines of every sort. from the
Scent to the 50-cent varieties, Illustrated
papers comic papers, Saturday and Sunday
supplements of daily papers, pictures. orna-
mental calendars, sets of puzzles, games,
etc.-anything.
Papers and magazines which. once read
by the original subscribers, would be cast
aside or buried in cupboards may do mis-,
them to the librarian of the Church PERIOD
ical Club. Mrs. s. L. Chaplin. No. 281 4th
avenue. New York city.
Yours cordially,
THE CHILDREN'S EDITOR.
A CALL FOR HELP FROM LEAGUE
CIRCLES.
Keep this before you constantly for reference
and sugsestion.)
Long trips Of reading matter sent out by
a New York charity. adapted from story
told by a writer in the New York Evening
Post.
How deep-sea sailors. ranchmen and light
house keepers are supplied with reading
At meeting of the woman's auxiliary to
the board Of missions Of the Episcopal
Church in New York, held last week In
Grace Church, a report was made OF the
work Of the Church Periodical Club.
This club, In view of the incidents which
attended its origin. Is almost as great
romance as Is the romance of some of the
magazines sent out by 1t. Fifteen years
ago Mrs. Mortimer Fargo, its founder, In
travelling across the continent was so
struck by the eagerness with which some
magazines she had been reading and had
thrown from the car window were gathered
up and literally devoured by company of
miners, ranchers. cowpunchers and shep-
that she resolved on her return to origi-
nate this enterprise.
In terms of figures the amount of work
done IN the past year alone Is represented
thus:
Number of current periodicals sent regu-
larry each week month. 13, 567; number
of books sent out during the year, %. 676;
number of reward cards, calendars. ETC..
SO OH; number of Christmas and Easter
carols. pieces of sheet music. ETC.. 1860:
number of odd magazines, Illustrated pa
pers etc. both church and secular, sent out
in packages from time to time throughout
the year. 20S, 164.
The clubs methods Of operation are as
simple they are effective. 1t first obtains
the names and addresses of those who need
such books and periodicals; It then appeals
to those who have such things to send
them; II receives these packages Of books
and papers at its Office, and sends out boxes
or parcels to schools or reading rooms. 1t
sends out also Christmas and Easter cards.
carols. leaflets. games, etc, the range of
the kinds of material being wide as the
field over which II Is sent.
The more important of the places to which
this material Is sent are perhaps half a
dozen. 1t goes to those who are at work
among the negroes Of the south the noun
tain whites of Kentucky. Tennessee and the
Carolinas, the mining camps and lumber
camps of the far west and northwest, to
the seamens missions In the port of New
York. to settlement houses and other in
reading rooms for canal boatmen, railroad
men and other transient laborers who put
in at stations and harbors in New York; to
the chaplains of hospitals-not in New York
city-and to the wardens of certain prisons
and reformatorIes- Numerous schools in
the south and west that are supplied with
school books in this way are in regions
where no public schools exist. 1t can be
imagined with what joy box of books Is
nailed in such places.
Extracts from letters received show the
good that is done by such work.
-. Tenn.-The n2-rowness Of the peo-
pies lives here is unbelievable
They are so shut off from the rest Of the
world. They are as far behind those
OF you who read the daily papers as though
they were living in another age .
They are even telling over the sane jokes
they told twenty years ago.
. Mo- In the homes of the
twenty families who comprise my congrega-
tion am positive that there is not a single
printed book. The only things that
serve for either art or literature, or both.