Members of the congregation are frequently urged on Sunday to send to the Industrial Society not only old clothing, but shoes and household articles, such as quilts, blankets, carpets, mattresses, pillows, and even furniture. All find purchasers. ୮ L VI. THE FRESH-AIR WORK The beneficiaries of this work are some of them guests for a day, and some guests for a week, at the Sea-side Cottage. The daily guests come five days in the week, in number about two hundred. Thus, of a summer, there are some ten thousand who have a glimpse of the great deep. This, however, is a total amount, and includes many repetitions. Every poor person in the parish has a chance to go to the sea-shore four or five times during the summer. The weekly guests are selected by the deaconesses. The lists are carefully prepared during the winter. Some weeks the house is filled with tired mothers and their children; then with young women; then with boys. All leave together, both daily and weekly guests, on Friday evening. The daily excursions begin on the Friday before the Fourth of July, which is the time when the public schools close, and continue until Labor Day. Transportation, a bathing-suit, a towel, and a dressing-room are provided free of charge to everybody. At the beginning of June the mailing-list is prepared from the records of the Day Kindergarten, Sunday-school, and Parish Record. A reply post-card, such as is printed on page 267, is mailed to all persons in the parish to whom such an excursion may be a privilege. DEAR FRIEND: ST. GEORGE'S MEMORIAL HOUSE New York, June 15, 19.. The Rockaway excursions will soon begin. If you want to be placed on the list for excursions, please fill out the attached card and return same to me at once. On the card put the names of the children who are in the Primary and Junior Departments of our Sunday-school, and those who are too young to go to Sunday-school. (Special excursions will be arranged for the members of the Senior Department.) Sincerely yours, Superintendent. REPLY Mrs. Anna Schultz, Address, 204 Ave. I would like to have my name placed on the list of Rockaway excursions this coming summer, and also those of my children, whose names and ages are below. I also agree to bring no children who are not my own, and give no tickets away to any one else. The name of the applicant is entered on the record-card bearing the family name, the number of persons, and the names of the children, with an indication (P. D. for Primary Department) of their place in the Sunday-school. Upon this card are entered the dates of the excursions on which the family are taken. Thus this sample card |