Sunshine Every Day in the Year 



[All communications relating to "Sunshine" should be addressed to Mrs. Jessie Mackenzie 

 Walker, 1943 Xorth Eleventh street, Kansas City, Kansas.] 



SOME people object to Sunshine's stipula- 

 tion that its members and branches shall 

 report from time to time what they have 

 done to promote good cheer. They feel that 

 telling of , one's good deeds violates the com- 

 mand, "Take heed that ye do not your alms be- 

 fore men to be seen of them." These people re- 

 member it is written, "Let not your right hand 

 know vrhat your left hand doeth_," but they 

 forget that it is also vrritten, "Let us provoke 

 one another to love and to good works." 



A complacent, boastful spirit is of all things 

 objectionable; but, surely, among ordinarily 

 well-balanced persons, there may 

 be interchange of experiences with- 

 out anyone becoming unduly puffed 

 up. Example is -a most powerful 

 teacher. To know what others 

 have done is both stimulating 

 and suggestive. It is on this 

 principle, with the hope of prac- 

 tically promoting Sunshine activ- 

 ities, that this year we propose to 

 talk about what Sunshine is doing 

 or has done to increase the sum 

 of the world's happiness. 



In some states Sunshine's work 

 is being performed largely by in- 

 dividuals, who are vrinsomely doing 

 **ye next thinge." In others, circles 

 here and there are working for 

 public objects. Tennessee is for- 

 tunate in having both classes of workers. For 

 some time throughout that state individuals and 

 small circles have been quietly doing what 

 they could to promote "the life beautiful." 

 This year the work is being reorganized and set 

 moving on new lines. With a woman of the 

 energy and consecration of Mrs. E. A. Mac- 

 donald, state organizer-, cooperating with that 

 experienced enthusiast, Mrs. C. A. Eugg, state 

 president, and such a well-edited organ as 

 the Sunshine News, Tennessee is bound to be 

 a Sunshine center. Memphis, the state capital 



SUNSHINE GREETING FROM 

 MRS. F. W. BAUMHOFF, 



Secretary and Treasurer Mis 

 souri Division I. S. S. 



and home of these ladies, has already— largely 

 through their efforts — become a leader in Sun- 

 shine's public activities. 



The first public work attempted by Tennessee 

 Sunshine was the establishment of an old men's 

 home. This project grew out of the needs of 

 the Old Men's Branch, in which were a number 

 of homeless old men who, introduced by Sun- 

 shine badges, made a living by selling small 

 wares from door to door. The cordial way in 

 which the citizens helped realize Sunshine's 

 project to establish a permanent old men's 

 home encouraged the workers to suggest meet- 

 ing another need of the city, so 

 last March the proposal was made 

 to establish a Sunshine club and 

 lunch room. The idea was "to give 

 business women and others the com- 

 forts and luxuries of life at a 

 minimum expense." Though the 

 enterprise was and is a huge under- 

 taking, it has been a success from 

 the first. 



The Sunshine people began bw 

 endeavoring to interest the whole 

 community. The result justified 

 their judgment and efforts. The 

 press, the churches, and the busi- 

 ness men were soon vying with 

 one another in offers of gifts 

 and service, and in a sur- 

 prisingly short time the Cynthia 

 Westover Alden Sunshine Club and Lunch 

 Eoom was open to the public. The rooms 

 occupy three floors, are well lighted, and 

 tastefully and comfortably furnished; provide 

 wholesome and appetizing dishes costing from 

 one cent up — a generous lunch can be had for 

 seven cents, and an extravagant one for fifteen 

 — and furnish opportunity for noonday rest 

 and social intercourse. Besides this daytime 

 ser^dce, the rooms are used for a variety of 

 evening classes and entertainments, and are 

 thus a factor in the higher life of the city. 



In Commendation 



I wish to thank you for the benefits I have 

 derived from your paper. A friend placed 

 twelve back numbers in my hands one year ago. 

 1 immediately subscribed for it, and commenced 

 the cultivation of flowers and foliage plants, 

 carefully observing the rules and suggestions 



found in your magazine. I have succeeded be- 

 yond my expectations, even better than the 

 flower growers I know who have had years of 

 experience. But I prize the intense interest 

 and love of all plant life that it has awakened 

 far more than success. Mrs. G. W. Merritt. 

 K entucky. 



