Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-03-22
The Kings Daughters Home

i The Kings Daughters Home
Is a large, handsome buff brick build
ing, two stories with attic and base
ment not completed. and is the onl
| Kings Daughters Home in Missouri
| Circles all over the state are furnish
ing 1t individual also. All Mexic
people are proud of this beautifu
Home. and sometimes send in beauti
ful gifts, and are not all members o
the circle, either. Even the farmer
like to bring In some Of their products
Everything in this home was donated
all new and clean. A granitoid side
walk is all paid for and ought TO hav,
been laid last fall. 1t has the moderr
convencies, thelephone, mail box
mail twice day, steam heat, electric
lights all over the house. There Is {
small library and the people send In
all kinds Of magazines, religious book.
and papers, SO we are kept in good
reading matter. In this circle there
are sixty-three Kings Daughters and
Kings Sons, who have worked eight
years for this beautiful Home. The
Kings Daughters spend one day here
every week, twenty or more, bringing
dinners for all. They sew for the
Home or for some one who sends work
In, and when all done, hold deyotions
an hour or more. They are holding a
Saturday market now for bread, pies,
cakes and various things that are or
dered- The ministers come out on
Sunday afternoons and hold services,
bringing their singers with them.
On March 18th Bishop Tuttle,
OF St. Louis, will be In Mexico and
will bold service at the Home. This
order is not sectarian, any person may
become member OF the order, whose
purposes and aims are in accord with
its objects, and who holds herself or
himself responsible to the King, our
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The
objects Of the order are to develop
spiritual life, and to stimulate Chris
tian activities. The badg is a small
silver cross, bearing the letters l. II.
N. and the word seal on one side, and
the date 1886 on the other. The Home
owns two acres Of land and it is in
closed by wire fence and on the
Boulevard on the south and west side
there are more than twelve lacers of
pasture land running up to strip OF
woods. There are three small ponds
on them. The Home ought to own
them all, and raise all the small fruit
and garden, also pasture for COW. No
Home like this ought TO be crowded.
The views are beautiful as far as the
eye can reach. There are health Civ
ing breezes on this broad prairie,
where the wind gets full sweep. On
the east, In one block of US, there is a
thickly settled rural neighborhood Of
nice houses, and most Of them have
stone sidewalks. When the Home gets
one, there will be sidewalks all the
way to the court house square, almost
a mile from here.
! The Matron is an educated, cultur-
ed Christian woman, and an excellent
housekeeper. The cook is good, bet
ter than the average. The table is
good because things well are cooked.
ANY old lady coming from a good
home of her own will like it. The
Home opened Dec. LIST, 1905. One old
lady came on the 4th. i came on the
9th, and another the 7tb. We three
were here twelve days before any more
came. There are eight old ladies here
now. A large family. l think it is
much nicer than the large crowded
ones. l have been here three months
and like it very much. 1t is a quiet
home. We are called every night to
the parlor for devotions at eight
O'Clock. / have been a Kings Daugh-
ter for seventeen yeors. AT the time
l joined, In 1886, these circles that
circle the globe now for good, never
dreamed Of the good they are doing
now all over world
A KING's DAUGHTER,
Torftr