The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-09
THE SOCIETY
OF GOOD CHEER
FARGO YOUNG LADIES BECOME
INTERESTED IN NEW ORGANIC
ALTON AND A LOCAL LODGE
WILL PROBABLY BE FORMED
PURPOSE is TO VISIT SICK.

a number of Fargo young ladies have
become interested in new society re-
Gently organized in the east. 1t is
known as the Society Of Good Cheer
and 1t is probable that a local lodge
will be organized.
The society has been chartered UNI
der the state laws of New York by a
group Of young women OF the upper
west side of New York. city. These
earnest young workers aim to cheer
the sick and especially the convalescent
to give touch OF Joy to those lives
that have been brought low through
sickness, to find the stranger within
the gates that may be very much in
need of cheer, and to promulgate cheer
fulness among all classes of people.
For some time these young ladies
have made 1t part of their every day
life to visit boarding houses, hotels,
hospitals and private residences where
the sick were commissioning and by dis
tributing flowers books, magazines and
good cheer, have assisted many people
back to rugged health and real life
Miss Theora Carter the leading spirit
among these young ladies conceived
the idea of organizing Society of
Good Cheer to be composed of young
ladies who would devote a portion of
their time to helpfulness and cheer.
Miss Carter became sick while at
tending post graduate classes in Chi
cago and mapped out the work while
convalescing. She is now devoting her
ample income and time TO the society
and has inspired such a spirit of cheer
among her young associates in New
York that may have joined in the work
Miss Carter is the president OF the
society and she and her co-workers
are successfully creating an organic
alton that will soon be a potent factor
in our national life.
Many lodges have been formed and
others are ready for organization. 1T
is proposed to institute lodges i'm all
the centers of the country to work with
physicians in aiding and assisting the
.convaiescent and to bring before the
entire people the necessity for good
cheer at all times.
Already the famous Hampton court
estate Of Staten Island with its eighty
acres of fine lawns and parks has been
-
ciety for their work.
A tented city in New Mexico has been
planned for incipient consumptives. and
number Of New York's wealthy men
will give. over their yachts in the sum
mer for several days i'm order that ex-
cursions may be taken along the Hud-
son.
The society is distributing hangers
and cards among the business houses
with the words: "Cheerfulness is an
asset"
The patrons of the society include
some of the leading women of the land.
This. society is not a charity.
Those who join must give a portion.
of their time and, where that is i'm
possible, they. are expected 20 give
way to others who are ready to do
work in person.
One of the aims of the society is to
encourage men to cheer. up their friends
and acqucintances when sick and con-
valescing.-
Many men have an idea that when
they. are sick it Is, best to be left alone,
a kind of independence that does not
always work out well with the other
man.
One of the strict rules OF the society
is that young ladies in visiting must go
in pairs or groups and must study
sanitation and hygienic rules
Sometimes Just the fact that young
ladies have called and left a flower
and a card viii aid a cohyalescing
person to joy--a cheer that is indeed
beneficial