The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-17

The Virginia branches are planning a
restroom for the use of visitors at thc
jamestown exposition, just as other
State organizations did at st. Louis and
Portland. AT Mexico, Mo-, home for
aged women is supported by circles of
this order. In Detroit the work takes
the form of social settlements, and
cooking and other industrial Glasses are
formed and supported for the benefit of
the poor.
A band of children in little Mis-
souri, town raised the mortgage, OF $50
on a poor widow s home, employed 81
nurse for her when she fell i'll, and paid
her funeral expenses when she died. In
Oakland, Cal, home for ipcurables
has been In successful operation for sew
eral years, the building being also of
fered as refuge for sufferers from the
San Francisco disaster. Tennessee cir
cles are building such home, and have
| also established a reform school for boys
! and a home for aged women in Mem
phis.
Kentucky circles have gone far up
IN the mountain wilds to build churches
where none ever before existed. In
st. Louis one circle set to work and
raised the money to rebuild their
church when the cyclone tore it down,
There are in the United States $4,000
people who are suffering from epilepsy.
At Port Deposit, Md, the Kings
Daughters have gathered as many as
they can into q home and are giving
them all tho help and care that is pos
slble. In Ohio a summer school is held
at Lakeside under the circles of that
locality, while in Alabama the activ-
tiles Of the circles are directed toward
hospital work.
In New Orleans the order maintains
home for crippled children, the build
ing of which is due to the best-known
living worker Of the order, Miss Sophie
Wright, the woman beloved of New
Orleans Miss Wright herself a Grip
pie since she was 3 years old, led in the
work of raising the needed $4,000 to
erect this building, because she knew
what it meant to be a little child who
suffered, who could not run and play
as other children did. This frail, white
haired woman, whose sweet face has
been marked with suffering, is of such
potent influence in her city that il is
said if her activities should suddenly
cease upwards of per cent of the
white male population would be de-
prived of the hope of education, She
has founded a free night school. which
now has 100 pupils and large corps
of volunteer teachers. She began this
Noih ny IedcDlUR d young 1elIOW rom
stranded circus who wanted to pre-.
pare for an examination. He brought
his friends. Others came and still 9th
ers, boys and men, girls and women.
asking help III every branch Of educa
tion under the sun, and Miss Wright
secured it for all of them somehow,
There are only two conditions with
which the applicant must comply in
coming to this night school: lie must be
employed during the day school hours,
aud he must bo unable to pay for the
tuition.
This work Miss Wright began alone
twenty-three years ago, when she was
girl in her teens, teaching a private
school for other girls. Today her private
school is one of the best in the com
try. She mortgaged it three years ago
TO get funds for her night school, but
the appreclative citizens of New Or
leans raised $4,000 and gave IL to her
as present. 1t was a memorable day
when thousands of people gathered in
Audubon park to see this frall woman
receive the Picavune's s silver cup. that
jhe city nad unanimously agreed should
% TO her ms the citizen who had Ion,
most fer New Orleans during the past
year. -
Daughters Of the American Reyolu
tion' will be the topic of MI Haskin's S
letter in The Tribune Thursday.