The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-16
HELP FOR THE BLIND BABIES
The international sunshine sooie :,

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The international Sunshine society.
which cares for the blind babies, has
issued the following appeal -
To Those Interested in Caring for the
Helpless Blind Babies:
The Arthur Home board has offered
the Arthur Home property, Pine
Grove avenue. Summit, N. j., to the
international Sunshine society as a
home for the New Jersey blind child
rem, and we will gladly undertake to
establish such an institution il the
New jersey citizens will help US to pay
off the mortgage, which is S6,l25.
To support blind baby it costs a
dollar a day, as each Chi S special
mental training, nursing and home
care.
We can't take the New Jersey child
rem, naturally. until we have the
means supplied in some way. We beg
your interest in this work which is
lending hand to the most helpless of
all human beings, blind babies
who heretofore have been put in with
the idiots and feeble-minded, left to
droop ana die without proper care.
The light-hunger is so much greater
than that for food that the fingers of
the blind babies do not stop at the
mouth as those of seeing children.
Instead of the blind babies sucking
their thumbs as seeing children do,
the fingers of the blind babies pass
right by the mouth into the eyes, and
there they dig and dig for light until
the eyes are injured and the child dies
from blood poisoning.
With proper care the children devel-
op wonderfully fast. You are cordial
ly invited to call at the Arthur home
any day it is convenient. The little
ones you will find there running about
like seeing children, were once unable
to walk or talk, or do anything but
sit and dig their eyes, or bump their
heads against the wall, or jump up
and down until their little bodies
were out of shape. Some we're once
Thought to be hopeless cripples,
The International Sunshine society
will turn the institution when once
established, over to some local branch
as it did the first one established in
New York city, the only object OF the
mother society is to save the babies.
We find the Arthur home is well
equipped, for family of forty, except
in the way of house linen and bedding.
There is a barn, but no horse nor
wagon. The pig pen is there. but the
children grieve because there is no pig.
The rabbit-house, with the wired
yard, is in perfect condition, but no
rabbits. There is chicken yard, but
no chickens. There are four acres
and half Of ground which gives past
ure for COW, but there is no COW.
Our wants are many, you see, and
can you not come to our assistance in
some way ? First, there is a mortgage
of So, 125. There are no blankets,
sheets, pillows, table linen, etc. There
is call for food of all kinds to feed a
family of forty. The home is mile
from the station, and horse and
wagon if only loaned, would be hailed
with joy. The children are pining for
a pig, rabbits, chickens and a COW,
but they are luxuries We could get
along without.
1t depends upon the interest and
financial help Of the citizens of New
jersey whether the home will be kept
open this winter for the New Jersey
blind children. The offer Of the Ar
thur Home Board is wonderfully
generous one, as the property is val
ued at S25, 900, ana is built for the ac-
commodatIon Of forty children, We
will do our part at this end OF the line
if you will help az your end, After
Tine properly IS secured, Jhe neXb move
will be to get the state to provide 50
much a day for the support of each
child, thus insuring the regular in
come as is now paid in New York city
for its blind babies.
The New Jersey Commission for
blind appointed by the Governor last
year, reported 1000 blind in The State
Of New Jersey, many Of them young
children who could be taken to the
Arthur home.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden,
President General, International Sun
shine society,
SO Fifth avenue, N. Y. city.
Mrs. Theodore f.. Seward
II Webster place, East Orange, N j..
Vice President.
Donations toward paying off the
mortgage ON the Arthur home and thus
securing it for the Blind Babies Of
Nsw Jersey, may be sent 10 IA iss Flea
nor NJ DAYTON, Wnippany Road, who