What a sweet memory you have of the dear patient little brother, who was
so ready to please his mamma, even when in pain!
I hope, as the summer days bring their pleasures, you will grow strong
again, and be able not only to walk, but to run and jump as boys like
to.
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There will be a general clapping of hands when the Cot report is read
this month. Here is a letter, which everybody will enjoy, from a friend
who has the Cot on her mind all the time:
I am certain a great many of our young readers, when they see the
Cot acknowledgments, will exclaim, "My! how did we get so much
money all at once?" I don't wonder at your surprise; I am sure I was
surprised when I heard the good news. Well, that $550 which you see
put down as the result of a fair is what did the work. Sometimes in
reading our fund column I have wondered why so few names from New
York city appeared among our contributors; the greater part of the
work before has been done in the East, West, or South. But now New
York city has stepped up bravely to the front, and is worthy of
great praise. Four little girls living here, namely, Madeline
Satterlee, Helen Manice, Gertrude Parsons, and Mamie W. Aldrich,
formed a club in Lent, and worked for this fair, and earnest
workers they must have been. The fair was held April 22, in the
Sunday-school room of Zion Church, Thirty-eighth Street, New York,
which was kindly lent for the purpose. Of course I was at the fair,
and a very pretty one it was. I only wish more people could have
known about it, and have been there to encourage these little girls
in their good work. Very busy they all looked, waiting on the
tables. They had a fish pond and a large red grab-bag, both of
which took in quite a sum of money; and I am sure these little
workers must have felt very proud, and well repaid for any
self-denial they had practiced, when they handed in to our
treasurer the large sum you see acknowledged to-day. Now don't you
think it would be a good plan if all the boys and girls who are
well-wishers of our Fund--and I am sure they are many--would work
hard this summer, while away in the country, or at home, and try
and make the amount up to $1500? That would be just half the amount
needed, and how fast we could go on next winter! You would have to
raise $345.56, and that is not such a large sum among a great many.
Some, like these four little New York girls, could hold a fair or
festival at some of the summer resorts; others could pick and sell
berries. There are many ways in which the little hands and feet
could earn the pennies for our fund. Do not be disheartened at
small results, but remember that every effort you make, if in
earnest, helps both yourselves and the Cot fund.
I wonder if some of you are not curious to know where your money
goes while waiting for the rest of the $3000. If any of you have
ever gone in the Sixth Avenue cars, New York, past Waverley Place,
you may have observed a large building on the southwest corner,
with "Greenwich Bank" upon it in large letters; our treasurer wants
me to tell you that she puts your money there; and, if I am not
mistaken, some of these days you will see in our acknowledgment,
"Interest from Greenwich Bank," which means that the bank pays you
so much money for leaving your money with it. If you will ask your
papas, I am sure they will tell you that it could not be in a
better place. So you see what a good treasurer we have to take care
of our money.
In saying good-by I must add that I think you have all done very
well so far in our good work. The year will not be up until next
month, and we have passed "the place in the mountains where we can
look back and see one-third of our journey accomplished."
So to our helpers,
Great and small,
Thanks we send
For one and all.
AUNT EDNA.
NEW YORK, _June_, 1882.
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