El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-25
ANNEX ADDED TO
THE DAY NURSERY
The Work of the Sunshine Society Has
Grown Rapidly During the Past
Year and Is still Growing.

The Work of the Sunshine Society Has
Grown Rapidly During the Past
Year and Is still Growing.
In spite of the fact that the board
of managers decided to close the sun
shine Day Nursery on Sundays, the
number of children cared for the past
month, six days in the week, is the
largest ever attending IN one months
time. Nearly 1000 little ones were given
food, care and practical instruction
along sanitary, moral and intellectual
lines.
The strides which this charitable
work is making are demonstrated by
the necessity of opening a branch Of
the institution for American children,
only two doors removed from the orig
inal location of the Sunshine Day Nur-
sery, where 1t began its charitable
work in an unpretentiOus little four
room cottage on South Ochoa street,
and grew, in Just one years time, to
the spacious quarters now occupied, at
209 South Campbell street.
The present matrOn. Mrs Annie Mort
son, will manage both headquarters and
the branch; the latter will be known
as the Sunshine Day Nursery annex,
and is located at 402 South Ochoa
street Mrs Morrison will have an
assistant matron, Mrs. Hill, a nurse of
seven years practice, some of this
time having 5een devoted to institu-
tional work.
The growth of the nursery has
necessitated giving the nurse in charge
of the baby room a helper; and, at the
present time, the corps of workers in
clude, besides the matrOn and assistant
matrOn, the baby nurse and her helper,
a kindergarten teacher, a cook, and
two maids making eight attendants
besides the extra help which is received
gratis from the mothers, who are bene-
ficiaries of the nursery and give their
time when not otherwise employed
This tree of charity work has num-
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ing the Sunshine Day Nursery annex
The other branches of this tree are the
kindergarten, which had over 400 at
tendants the past month; the Little
Mothers class, which is lnStructng
children to be little mothers and care
takers in their own homes, to the tiny
charges some times left to their care;
and the social settlement work, which
is done by opening the nursery to the
poor working mothers and their friends
one evening a month for social inter
course. At these meetings music and
light refreshments are provided and
someone addresses the mothers in
Spanish along instructive lines.
Another small branch of this tree is
the Sunshine employment bureau.
which is gradually growing, and fills
a great want, both for those needing
employment and for all in search OF
servants. There is yet another branch
to this spreading tree the large play
fellows have their seesaW, swing and
sand pile. and supervisor always with
them.
On the 18th of December the sun
shine Day Nursery viii be two years
old. and it is very large for its age.
The sunshine Day Nursery annex, for
American children, is a four room brick ,
house, with large yard in the rear
which Will be used as a playground.
This house has been furnished entirely
by the generous hearted citizens of FL
Paso, without whom this enlargement
of the work could not have been real
lied at this time, when it was sorely
needed.
The Sunshine Day Nursery annex will
be opened this week. kindergarten
work viii be carried on at headQuar~
ters and the annex, and Miss Bernice
Boynton, now in charge. will divide
her time between both nurseries.
Miss Dixie Fassett a trained kinder
gartener, is generously giving some
time in assisting Miss BOynton. The
children are now preparing a program
Tor their regular public entertainment, I
which is held the third Wednesday of
each MONTH
The entertainment will be postponed ]
one week this month, when the public
IS urged to visit the institution and
see for itself what is being accom-
plished at 209 South Campbell street |
Visitors are welcome every day. sun.
days excepted, from until o'clock.
This charitable institution is carry !
ing on its work in a thorough, system /
attic, economical and intelligent man !
ner; fighting the paralyzing influences /
Of poVerty-ignorance and dependence I
as it makes il possible for women /
with little children to learn how TO /