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S 1 i t found to possess many possibilities of ot happiness which the markings spoiled for tor passing on Inspired with this idea of ot sending out remembrances that might be multiplied multiplied multiplied mul mul- four fold a new set of ot cards was given to Mrs Alden by the Recorders Recorder's Recorders Recorder's Recorders Recorder's Re Re- corders corder's staff and these cards were at once sent out The thanks received for them were so pretty that an item was made of them in the New York Recorder This caused further correspondence correspondence correspondence corre corre- and resulted in a club for lor forthe forthe the exchange of friendly greetings The name of Chat was at first chosen for the column but in time in-time time tho the membership grew so BO large largo that the themo mo Go Good Cheer was adopted and andIn andin andin in 1896 1890 the tho name of the society was changed to the Sunshine So Society and its active members were to include all aU who were of ot brightening life by word thought Or deed The Tho growth of the Society has been almost phenomenal From the tho parent society branches have sprung up until every State in the Union Is represented represent represent- ed with regularly enrolled presidents und and organizers When a a. State has ten branches each one consisting of at least ten members it becomes entitled to a State dent Besides the thousands of members members mem mem- bers hers in the United States there are flourishing branches in England Japan Japan Japan Ja Ja- pan India France and Germany The Society Motto The competition to furnish the Society's Society's Society's So So- motto ran for three months and I PRESIDENT PRESIDENT- PRESIDENT GENERAL ALDEN among the many thousands of verses received the toll following owing poem sent in by Mrs W. W H. H Chase of or Brooklyn was wast t selected Good Cheer Have you had a kindness shown Pass it on not given for you alone alone alone- Pass it on Let it travel down the years Let it wipe another's tears Till in heaven the deed appears appears- i Pass It on f At t the time the verse was selected no one one- ono knew knew the author and nd It was rol Tui after alter the Society Soc bad had adopted the motto that the writer was discovered to be Rev Henry Burton Burton Burton Bur Bur- ton D. D D. D of Lytham England Mr Burton wrote the poem twenty-five twenty years jears ago and had almost forgotten it until the Sunshine Society brought it into prominence Mr Burton is rector rector rec rec- rec tor of the Lytham Episcopal Church and has become so interested in the Society that now everybody in his church and Sunday school has become a Mr 1 Burtons Burton's parishioners are building building build build- ing log a beautiful new church and Sun- Sun shiners the world over are planning to raise funds for a handsome memorial memorial memo memo- memorial rial window bearing the poem poem which has inspired so many to acts of kindness kindness kind kind- ness seas and thoughtfulness The Dues One of the unique features of the Society is the payment of membership fees which consists merely of some so e kind act which will bring sunshine to some one It may be only an exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change of books pictures or flowers or it may bring more material benefit In one State a a. well known woman has paid her dues by educating some boy boyas as long as she lives instead of placing S a costly monument over her sons son's eF grave In nearly every State in the Union the Society owns a a. wheel chair given in memory of or come Gome dear one J These are passed around to crippled and amt helpless ones and are constantly in in use Though the Society has never solicited solicited solicited funds it is estimated that has been given to carry on its work From the International headquarters 96 Fifth Avenue New York City nearly has been expended in inthe Inthe inthe the past five years to make others happy Newspaper Aid Ald The newspapers must be given credit in a large degree for the growth of the tie Society Originating in a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper office it has everywhere received the endorsement of the press until today today today to to- day over papers are regularly carrying car ar- ar tying Sunshine departments The Society has a a. publication of Its own called the Sunshine Bulletin o of which Mrs Alden the founder and president president general general is editor Features of Sunshine Work w Each State division of ot the Sunshine Society endeavors to have some established establIshed established feature besides the individual sunshine each member strives to scat scat- ter This work takes the form of day nurseries homes for crippled children and aged ones maintaining beds in hospital wards fresh air and outing cottages Sunshine libraries lunch lunchrooms lunchrooms rooms for working girls etc etc ete The greatest evil the Society has to fake sunshine societies so so- societies contend with is the grafters organize to defraud S the public The popularity of the Society So So- Society and the ready response that tha every appeal of Sunshine receives has made it possible for these grafters t to reap a rich harvest Readers should remember that the only authentiC Sunshine Society has kas Mrs Cynthia Cynthi Westover Alden as its Iti president eon en- en eral and Is called the international Sunshine Society y I r ss t 7 A i BULL RUN BRIDGE One of the Historic Landmarks of the Civil War About this bridge cUn clings some of the I heroic history of the United States States the tho old Bull Run bridge and Bull Run the little stream flowing under its arches In the South a creek is called caned a run and this stream in the North would be be called Bull Creek The bridge marks where the Warrenton turnpike the worn war-worn road across Northern Virl Vir- Vir pinia between the Potomac and the l Rap crosses the stream It was here that the sanguinary battle of ot 1861 began beg began Tylers Tyler's Tylers division of- of the Union army on the east side or the right of th the picture and the Evans Evan's brigade of the Confederate army on the west or left hand side of the pic plc ture tare There was fi in the tho neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- of the bridge go in and a aman aman man standing on this old bridge could have heard the guns of a a. score of ot In the Civil War |