Evening journal., 1908-03-28
AID ASKED BY
SUNSHINERS
For PitiabIe Case Of a Young
Boy Who is III Of
tuberculosis

After enduring a winter that gave a.
most thorough demonstration Of its
value as an aid to the needy Of the
city. the Wilmington Sunshine Society
faces summer with a depleted treasury
and tasks Of mercy in it's charge that
has compelled It to make an urgent ap-
peal 20 the public for assistance. This
appeal is the more urgent because Of a
case which has come to its attention
within the last few days and which is
worthy of public attention.
The case IS that of a fourteen-yenr-
oid-boy, a eonsuniptive. whose pitiable
condition was extreme and who was
yesterday placed In the sanitarium OF
the Ant-Tuberculosis Society in
Brandywine hundred by the Sunshine
Society. The society has promised TO
pay $3.50 a week as board for tho
young patient while az the institution,
and as It is probable that he will have
I to remain there at least until the be-
ginning Of next winter. this will mean
that his board viii cost something
more than $50. an item which the So
ciety is utterly unprepared to sustain.
Having taken the case. as It has often
done before, without funds TO defray
its expense and depending on nothing
but the contributions of friends, tho
society is the more obliged to appeal
to the public at large because Of the
extreme difficulties which IL has ex-
perienced this winter as a result of the
Industrial depression. the inability Of
friends TO assist as heretofore, and the
wider range Of work which It has
undertaken.
Helplessness Of Patient.
The pitiable phase Of the present
case and the heiplessness Of the young
patient has aroused the society to ef-
fort, and its appeal to the public mas
been made only because the society it.
self Is unable to contribute all to the
boys we'll being that &c needed. Sun
shine Society workers found the boy in
the western part of the city, in the
incipient stage Of consumption. sleep
ing on two chairS~ln a cellar with his
mother, herself frail from hunger and
incapable of thinking clearly, and two
other brothers several years younger.
The father died last fall Of consump-
tion and the mother had no means OF
sustenance other than the aid of neigh
bors. The condition Of the family was
shocking. Nothing that was shown at
the tuberculosis exhibit. which was
held in this city several months ago,
could equal it. The Doy slept within
two feet of a reeking cook stove. the
cellar was almost totally dark and the
surroundings were indescribable.
Society Aids tho Family.
In spite of the fact that It had no
funds to care for the sufferer. the so-
clety at once offered aid to the family,
and placed the boy in the anti
tuberculosis sanitarium. while the con-
gregation of Trinity Episcopal Church
took chargA OF the mother and the two
children.
It is for this case that the society
has decided to appeal to the public foT
money. AS the society has beer OF
invaluable benefit to tho city. and as
it's splendid work and purpose is gen.
orally known it is not doubted that the
public viii make a generous response
Contribution may be sent to Mrs
Jane w. Pennewill. State president OF
the Sunshine Society. of No. 706 West
J street. THE EVENING JOURNAL
viii also be pleased to acknowledge
contributions to this splendid cause.