Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-21

performance of kind and helpful deeds,
and to thus bring the sunshine of hap
piness into the greatest possible mum
Der Of hearts and homes" Under this
constitution each branch pays to its
state society annual dues of 81, and each
state society pays to the general soci-
ETY. So year to help defray
the expenses at headquarters
This. in brief, covers the aims and the
financial obligations. Beyond that
each branch may do the work it wishes
and there are many different avenues
of endeavor.
A sanitarium at Bensonhurst- blythe
Sea, New York, is conducted in the IN.
terest of the society, This is open all
the year around. The New York So
cietv has also opened rest house
next door to the sanitarium where in
valids and very tired people sit in the
reading rooms or on the sun porches
and get well and strong again. rms
branch has also a home for blind pa
bies, where the forlorn and neglected
little ones are fed and kept clean,
taught kindergarten lessons and games
and how to make music on simple IN
str1ments. This is the first kinder
garten for blind babies in the United
At Hot Springs, Ark, the local sun
sinners keep a home, primarily LOT
eentlewomen who are suffering Win
rheumatism and who have gone there
to take advantage of the baths. In
New Orleans there is maintained Il
Sunshine lodge for working girls,
helping hand to the girls who make
their own way on small salaries. on
Forest lake, Minnesota, the Mary Davis
lodge is maintained for summer Vaca-
lions for mothers and little chlldreh'
and more than 500 are taken there
every summer. At Tecumseh, Neb.-to
show the diversity of effort in one
place alone-there is Sunshine rest
room in the business center, free read
ing tables are placed in the depots,
and a scholarship is provided for IN d
business college.
In Toledo, Ohio, the Sunshine So
ciety maintains a wheel chair fund
with which wheel chairs for lnVaIlds
and cripples are purchased and loaned
these unfortunates for an indefinite
period They maintain also sunshine
corner in the Toledo hospital, where
free reading table is kept supplied with
magazines, and they maintain a mower
mission in one of the big stores there.
At Center Point and Kerrville, Texas,
and at Logan, Idaho, free libraries
have been established on small scale.
Various Maine branches have under
taken to support several beds in the
hosnitals for cripples, and to furnish
wheel chairs for any cripples Who
need them. The Kansas City-branch IS
working among deformed and crippled
children, and the New Britain, Conn,
one looks after the entertainment OF
the folks at the poor farm.
At La Junta, Colo, rest room is
kept open for visitors and weary work
ers, and at Knoxville, Tenn, SINH
lar institution is maintained. In st.
Louis ten memorial cribs are support
ed in the Children's home, and bed
in the Children's hospital. In Boston
an exchange and free library are Kept
open and in Memphis, Tenn, home
for aged men is a monument to the
earnestness of members OF a sunshine
society, although the home has been
given over to a different board follow
ing the change of residence Of the lead
ing Sunshine workers from that city
to another Work toward some good
end or other is being pushed by the
branches, Boston just now being en-
gagged IN getting together money for a
summer camp in the country where
working girls may go for vacation. IL!
Cuba the work follows the lines of
helpfulness first laid down by pioneer
Sunshiners in looking after old and
young, sick and poor.
An interesting branch that has mem
bers throughout the country, and whose
members meet only through the medi-
UNI of the press, letter, postcard or
small gifts. is called the Fourscore club,
the members being fourscore or more
years old. These old people make known
their occasional needs, or send greet
ings and messages to other members
through the official organ of the order.
This branch is so large and the MEM
bers are so old that rarely an issue
appears but chronicles the death of
some Of them.
An interesting feature of work cen