Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-28
TAG DAY FOR
BLIND TOTS
Sunshine Society Will Solicit
Funds Hare tomorrow
for Summit Home.
SCHOOL PUPILS TO HELP

W. $50 81 W. hi
Everyone who contributes his or
mite" to the school children collect
ing tomorrow for the International
Sunshine Society, will be aiding inan-
cially some poor, blind child confined
in a home at Summit. Mayor Boil.
schweiler has granted the society a per-
init to hold a tag day here tomor.
row, in which several hundred school
children will make collections.
As a reward for their efforts, he So
ciety will award the children prizes. A
gpn metal watch with fob and chain
will be given the boy who gets the
greatest amount Of subscriptions, and
to the girl who turns in the greatest
amount, a similar cased watch Of small-
er size will be awarded.
The society Is at present supporting
nine children in its home at Summit,
with thirty or more on the list of appli-
cants. Through the efforts of Mrs.
Leon Sutton, state organizer of the So
eiety, Mayor Bollschweiler granted the
permit.
School children will be given banks
this afternoon at the temporary head
quarters of the society, 172 New Bruins
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afternoon they will devote to making
collections on the streets, and before8
o'clock tomorrow night will return the
banks.
For the boy turning over the largest
amount among his fellow scholars from
each school, a bat and ball will lie the
prize. The girl from each school to-
falling the largest amount will be Civ
en- a necklace and medallion. Each col-
l%ector, no matter what sum he turns
over, will be awarded a silver badga
when ne turns in his bank.
There are no commissions paid for
this Tag Day. Every cen over and
above absolutely necessary expenses for
banks, tags, freight and incidental help,
etc, will be sent to the Arthur Home
to be used as house money.
The bill has passed which will pro-
vide for the babies Of New Jersey s1in-
mitted to the home, but the money is
not yet available. There are nine chill
dren now in the home, which is being
put in perfect order, and there is a list
of about thirty children waiting TO be
sent there.
Every child is urged to take a bank
and do the best he can with selling his
tags, which are to be sold for ten cents
and up and every citizen should buy 4
tag and wear it Saturday for-lasfrg
Then the interesting sfoount OF ten
Valen.iue, the first baby to be H.
into the home, is furnished by la
Leon Sutton, of Jersey City, who carr
aied the chlld to headquarters. Mrs.
sutton Is state organizer and one of the
pest 1rlends the plind babies OF the state
OF New Jersey nave found.
Inc society ID TO De commended for
tne Work IL mas done IN the past. Here
IS a niue story or the hrst inmate or
the Dyker delghts nome, one OF the
INSTITUTIONS supported py Ihe 1hterha-
1lohai ounshiae ooclety. .
"A Litue shoe.6oA bnnd bapy.
IL seems that II II were true tnas
ever anypody mas . charmed hIe, mem
our Dllna oaoy Whom we ave named,
arthur valentine Lyndhurst, must De
pressed In that way.
NOT SO long ago an automobile was
seen pnshing through that part or New
Jersey where the beautlfnl clty OK
Lyndnurst Is SITUATED. When gong by
a farm the occupants were seer to
throw out a box aimed at a pig pen
near the roadside. HAD the box fallen
INTO the pig pen 1t would soon have
peen trampied by the porkers WhQ
were gazing out through the boards AZ
the NOISY as 1t rushed by,
rate deereed that the box should mop
iand IN the Pig pen, out ~ settiea n
the boards just above and there 1t bal
anced, attracting the attention OF a NJ.
tie Dog VINO parked hrs mead ana tall9
most OIL In his determination to draw
the attention OF the farmer to the box,
When the shoe box was united there Il
lay the little blind baby with lts bons
net strings tied tightly around ITS chm
and throat, but ne didn't seem TO
mind; his life was charmed:
AN oVerseer or the poor OF that u
ty communicated with the headquarters
OF the international sunshine society.
Mrs. sutton, organizer OF tne ROSEBUD
Branch of New Jersey, carried the baby
TO the General once ana there she was
renewed by Mrs, Maclhtyre, wn' wrap
Blind Babies Home at oyker Heights,
where inc superintendent ana ah3the
bilnd toiks ave MADE u great petsof
INN ever since.
one OF the young LADIES' IN the once
named MN arthur, because ne was me
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