The Florida agriculturist., 1906-05-16
GENERAL SUNSHINE.
A NEW DEPARTMENT OF SUN
SHINE

With Miss Eleanor Mulholland at
the head, Sunshine hopes soon
to open a new department of work
large number of young women in
our great cities Miss Mulholland,
who is now assistant in the Blind
Babies Home, $50 Gates avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y, has for years been
interested in working girls who get
small salaries and who have a hard
time living comfortably out of their
small earnings She has had practi-
cal experience in learning just how
is best, to bring material, and helpful
Sunshine to this class of working
women, and has studied the problem
for some years In cooperation with
the Sunshine Society she hopes to
have a well-equipped home for work
ing girls to be known as the Sun
Home for girls.-BrOOklyn Times.
Every avenue for its establishment
is open, and we all feel very happy
over the encouraging prospects. Mer
chants have offered to assist in everv
way, giving necessary supplies for the
furnishings and provisions at whole
sale price, no matter how small a
quantity is bought at a time. The
only thing required is a suitable
house. There are no funds from which
a house could be rented, and there
fore those most interested in this
new object are looking for a house
that the owner will open for the pur-
pose. In this large city there are many
houses that have been closed for
years, and doing no one any good;
besides the houses themselves are 60
ing to ruin for want of an inhabItant.
If an owner of such house would
open the doors and allow Sunshine
to come in, the empty halls would
once more resound with the cheer of
human voices, and there would be
some one to care for the property
and enjoy it at the same time. We
are not particular whether this new
home is opened as it would be within
easy access of the business section
town.
Isn't there some member who
knows of a vacation house that the
owner would be willinn to open for
this Sunshine purpose?
at is curious how seldom we speak
of our mercies and blessings COM
pared with the pets and worries of
life.
The philosophy of gloom never yet
fitted a being for the highest use
fulness" Augusta Larned
at is the lift of an eyelid, the turn
of a wrist, the smile of moment,
that turns the current of morbid.
overwhelming encouragement and
thrills into new life the possibility
of something better. How quickly
the heart reaches out to its compan-
ions in suffering, the sympathy and
tenderness it feels; how we long to
help others to send some word of
comfort and how glad we are to
know that in the darkest hours a
friendly line may carry in its train
the sunshine of hope and faith"
Our neighbor each week, Mrs. c.
B. S. Haney whose power for good
work, cheerful and thoughtful coun
sci and life all unselhshness some
time since enclosed "food for our
column"
Great things" are not necessary
for the attainment of great character.
This is strictly manifest in the pattern
life-the life of our Lord. For thirty
years that life was entirely unevent-
full, unhistorical He lived in a village,
mixed with peasants, Wrought at the
bench, dwelt in a cottage. There was
no great trial, like the temptation in
the wilderness; no moving triumph,