How do the children in Boston work for the Children's Fund for Mother's Room?" is a question often asked. Since so many are desirous of knowing more about this work, a brief history of our modus operandi may not prove amiss in the Journal pages.
On March first '91 the children of our Sunday school were called together, and the new Church Home was the subject of general conversation. In response to the query "How many would like to become little workers for this Home?" every hand was raised. Plans for systematic action were thereupon discussed; and, nothing better presenting itself, each worker was given a new dime to use as his "talent"—to see how much it would gain in three months. With this capital they went to work; some in one way, some in another, but all wide awake, and each doing with his might whatsoever his hands found to do.
A little girl of twelve invested in a bottle of glue, while her twin brother bought tissue paper, tinsel, etc. They thus formed a co-partnership for the manufacture of paper dolls. Much play was suspended, and spare moments thus gained were zealously devoted to this new enterprise, wherein much ingenuity was displayed. At fifteen cents apiece, including a wardrobe of three changes to each doll, they found a ready market for all the dolls they could make. The result of this steady labor of love was ten dollars apiece from these two workers.
