New-York tribune., 1919-01-27
Home Like Mother
Would Plan Opens
For Service Men
Sunshine Rest House, - the
Salvation Army Calls 1t,
and It's just ChoclS Full
Of Warmth and Cheer

Oh, boy; The Salvation Army ha.
opened Sunshine Rest House For men
in service at East Seventy fifth Street
with "Human, Nature Room n every
thing.
70 Fifth Avenue west and Madison
Avenue east, on Seventy-ffth Street,
yesterday, there was u scent of hot
doughnuts and in the kitchen of the
frying s 600 Of 'em. And through the
whole house, from the wide main
street entrance to the roof garden,
there was q general atmosphere OF
home and mother.
The house was turned over to the
army and the use Of soldiers by Mrs.
V. Evcrit Macy and is the last word in
luxury and comGort-high ceilings,
dark carved panellings, inlaid floors,
tiled baths and all the rest. Mrs. Ever
EFT Little. Of the entertainment com
mittoc, brought about the donation and
obtained the services Of an expert dec
orator, who flung a bit Of sunshine
yellow all about, remembered that men
in service like deep cushions and large
chairs, and went ahead.
The result is simply-well, as one
boy put it.:
Gee, golly, gosh--all this for q quar-
ter? Oh, boy, make me q life mem
ber,"-
Navy Lads Corner One Room
There are sleeping accommodations
for S5 men-white iron beds with fresh
linen every day-and white spreads.
Yes m, spreadsl Six chaps have cor
nered one big room. They were mates
in the navy and are studying to become
ensigns at Pelham They have pri-
vate bath, keys to their department" a
fireplace, four large windows and SER
vice-all for quarter night. Every
sleeping room is sunny and bright and
each looks like the sort of place mother
enjoys fixing up for son.
There are baths galore and off in q
corner Of the third floor there is room
that looks like a picture in "House
Beautiful" The furnishings, given by
Chamberlain Dodds in memory of his
mother, are ivory and lavender, with
wide cushioned chairs, tall reading
lamps with yellow and lavender silk
shades, deep lounges, a fireplace and
writing desks. thick rug in corre-
spending tints takes the shock off army
and navy clogs, and the room is for the
special enjoyment Of those chaps who
want to steal away from the riotous
good times downstairs and rest bit,
read or write letter. The army par
tcularly encourages those boys who
have just been released from hospital
to come to the Sunshine House and
rest
Human Nature Room
The Human Nature Room, named by
the men themselves, is on the second
floor-long and high studded with side
lights subtly shaded standing lamps
and tapestries. The curtains are yell
low and the chairs yellow and green.
It's q bit of concentrated cheer and
comfort, that room.
Just beyond is billiard room with
five tables and no restrictions. OF Of
it is the lounge-and boys, isn't it a
corker? The carved panellings and
wide fireplace, the long, deep sofas and
broad chairs, the dark, narrow tables
kind that grace mission, but the sort
that harmonic with Seventy fifth
Street and Fifth Avenue residence
the window seat that fronts six win
dows, and all that-are great, but none
too good for the men in service.
"Ash trays!" calculated Mrs Little,
making tour Of inspection, and jotted
o note in her ever-present pad.
"Gamey." added Miss f. B. Dexter,
hostess of the Sunshine House, and af-
fectionately dubbed "Mother Dexter"
by the boys, who ambled about and
bullicd the little woman into doing
everything they wanted.
There's an air of camaraderie about
& Salvation Army house that exists no.
where else. From the doughnuts in the
kitchen to the sunshine on the roof the
boys were welcome, and they believed
it. So popular has the house become
already that Mother Dexter was obliged
to open the rooms informally and take
in some of the many VINO applied last
week. The formal opening, scheduled
for Saturday, was postponed because Of
the illness Of Mrs. Oliver Harriman's
son and the delay in some Of the ex-
pected furnishings.
Mrs. Hartman, Mrs. Little and Mrs.
William Sherbrooke Popham comprise
the entertainment committee, and it is
this committee which has guaranteed
to serve the boys breakfast and din
ners before long, 80 that those who
drop in to write letters, play pool or
read during the afternoon and want to
stay on into the evening need not go
out for something to eat.
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