The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
SPLENDID WORK Of
kings DAUGHTERS
LOCAL AND STATE
ITS ACHIEVEMENTS ARE GET
FORTH BY MRS. FRANK r.
EVERETT.
GREAT PROGRESS IN YEARS
Eloquent Tribute Is paid to the Order
by the Leader In Her Interesting
Address on Sunday Afternoon at
Services Celebrating Anniversary.

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At the services celebrating the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the Kings
Daughters Mrs. Everett, the local
leader spoke as follows:
The Tennessee Branch as united
organization came into existence in
1896, fourteen annual conventions
having been held to mark the mile
stones of the States progress and In
discussions of how best to advance
the affiliated work; but individual cir
Giles organized In His Name, receiving
the badge of membership from the
International headquarters at New
York, and bearing the honored name
of The Kings Daughters, were
part of the philanthropic activities OF
the State as early as 1888-just two
years after the founding of the or
der.
Our own circle from Columbia is
proud to be numbered among the old
est The Chattanooga circle being
founded in April, 1888, and our circle
in November Of the same year.
Organization, which means concen-
tration, is the distinct trend of mod
ern thought, and you may mark the
line of truest progress where perfect
organization abounds. Though a cir
Gle is complete in itself, and the very
name the highest emblem in the CT
pher of the word, for we are told ST.
Augustine described the nature of
God as a circle whose center is every
where and its circumference no
where; yet the nature of circle is
such, that around each one another
of greater dimensions may be drawn,
having always common center.
While the circles were disassociat-
ed and scattered, though good was
surely accomplished, yet growth was
slow, fruitage scarce-the horizon
limited-we saw not beyond the shad-
ow OF our own tree.
Contact means breadth and breadth
growth: and again contact means in
fiuence and influence power, and pow
er strength.
Data which l will give below will
bear me out in saying that not until
we were a circle Of concentric CTR
cles, each working Independently, yet
each in close relation, all radiating
from the same center, in other words
an organized State branch, not until
then did we begin to grow into the
likeness of the vital force that we are
today.
I speak not boastingly, but with
very real appreciation when l say
that what The Kings Daughters Of
Tennessee really want and ask for,
they get.
In our State we now have forty
two circles, thirty-four adult and eight
junior-one of which Is boys. Some
circles have gentlemen as associate
members but no adult circle comprised
entirely Of men.
Every denomination is represented
in the circle membership; we recog-
nize neither caste or creed, no bar
riers of mans making, we are all
daughters of the King, and as such
meet on common ground.
Every line Of philanthropic work is
endorsed by the branch and embraced
within it's scope. In the smaller plac-
es we are the united charities of the
community, while in the larger cit
les, we cooperate with every organi-
cation that has for its object the bet
terment of the race and the allevi-
alton of suffering. Homes for the
aged, for the incurables, for the blind,
for the orphan, for the shelter'ess;
day nurseries, fresh air camps, flower
missions, and district nurses, all are
found under the name and protection
of The Kings Daughters.
Twenty-one circles are engaged In
general charity, the main body of
their expenditures being for the as
sistance Of the destitute living in or
stranded upon their townships
Thirty make an annual donation to
the State work, the home for the In
durable, varying from five to three
hundred dollars each, Eve In addition
support patients in the home, my own
circle being one of the Ave. Four are
engaged in settlement work, two con-
tribute to a day nursery, three to dis
trict nurses, one circle, the Earnest,
Of Nashville, being entirely RESPONSE
Bile for a nurse In tenement district,
who averages two thousand visits a
year. The first work Of this circle |
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