St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-01
Robert and the Cookies.
How st. JOhnsbuPy Boy Raised
Money for Kurn Hattin Homes.

How st. JOhnsbufy Boy Raised
Money for Kurn Hattin Homes.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Jennie T
Bishop, editor of the New England Kurn
Hattin Homes, we are enabled to present
our readers with an excellent likeness oil
Robert William Bennett, the four-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bennett
How be raised money for Kurn Hattin
Homes is told by Mrs. Bishop in this in.
teresting manner.
One Sunday not long ago, his good
Sunday school teacher told her class
about the boys at Kurn H attn, and sug-
gested that they earn some money to
send to them. Robert was greatly in
terested. When he got home he asked
his mamma all about orphans and home
less boys. His little heart was grieved
to think that all boys did not have a
home and parents to care for them. He
resolved to earn some money to help
them, He planned and schemed how he
should do this, but found it was not easy
as has many an Older 6nancier.
He cut gay pictures from Sunday papers
aud went out to turn them into cash,
only to find that his works of art ~
were not appreciated by the public. Soon
a new, a grand opportunity presented
itself. His own dear mamma baked a
fine batch a crisp cookies one day, and
leaving them to cool, and Robert to play
went out OF the house for few minutes
On her return, she found to her surprise
that both cookies and boy had disappear
ed.
She went out to search for her missing
possessions, and discovered Robert wait
ing at a neighbours door for an answer
to his ring OF the door bell. He had a
brown paper bag full of cookies in each
hand, which he was eager to convert in
to money for the little kids that have
no papa and mamma" as he expressed
it. His mamma persuaded him to return
home with her cookies, promising to
make him some holders to sell. This she
has done, and the young philanthropist
has already sold forty-three at FIVE cents
apiece, sending the So Is to Kurn Hat
tin.
The little chap cannot talk plainly, but
he shows his holders, lisps in baby words
the object OF enterprise. and invariably
makes sale. showing remarkable saga
city and business ability, which promise
well tor the future.
Roberts success has suggested a plan
which we trust will interest other child.
rem, parents, teachers ofpublic schools and
superintendent and teachers of Sunday
schools.
A hospital room is much needed at
Kurn Hattin. One can be made by rails
ing the roof of an L.. which will make
possible not only hospital room and
connecting bath room, but other needed
rooms. The estimated cost is 81 900 1t
is proposed to start fund for this pur.
pose, to be called THE Childrens Fund"
contributions to be given by, tor, or in
memory of, children. Robert Benefits
So Is. and S175 90 already raised by the
Alice Bliss Mission Band of Winchester,
N. H., will be nucleus, to which we invite
many additions. One thousand dollars
may seem like large amount to raise in
this way, but it can be done. The names
of children by and for whom contribu-
lions are sent, will be published in this
paper, under the heading, THE Children's
Fund.-" II the money is earned, we would
like to know in what manner, and will
publish as many of the stories aspossible.