EVERYBODY’S FRIEND
November,
1913
Everybody’s jfrfcnd
Is a Monthly Magazine Published at Enid,
Oklahoma, in the Interest of the Child Saving
Mission, by the Board of Directors.
Volume XI.
Number n.
D. E. Cripe, Editor.
505 East Maple St., Enid, Okla.
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Board of Directors.
D. E. CRIPE, President,            Enid, Okla.
V K. MEEK, Treasurer,           Enid, Okla.
ELSIE K. SANGER, Secretary, Thomas, Okla.
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D. E. Cripe, Manager.
Mrs. D. E. Cripe, Assistant Manager.
Entered as second-class matter June 18,1912, at the
Post Office at Enid, Oklahoma.
EDITORIAL ITEMS
Send 50cts for the Friend a’whole year, and
get the December Number free.
For one week we had nine children in the
Home, which is the most we ever had at once.
Little Albert, nine months old, an especial
favorite in the Home, has gone into a family
where there were no children.
Floyd, whose picture appears on the front
page, was taken into the family when he was
quite young, and is a happy adopted boy. He
will be three years old in February.
On another page the type has made us say
that the donations and collection at Thomas
amounted to nearly sixty dollars. It should read
seventy, instead el sixty, or in exact figures it
amounts to $69.32, which was very good.
Our readers will rejoice with us to know that
we now have a heating plant in our home which
will make every room comfortable, even in cold
weather. Before this we were uneasy every
time it turned cold, for, fear the babies could
not be kept warm.
A family in Ohio sent us five dollars not long
ago They have quite a family, and are not rich.
A Sister in Iowa lately sent us ten dollars. We
certainly appreciate the motive and the gift.
Mabel went to Eastern Oklahoma and assist-
ed in adopting a little girl that was placed in a
family last.spring, and then did some soliciting
and visited two families that had taken children.
The Assistant Manager has just gone to take ,
a baby boy to a home, and in a few days will
take another one over a hundred miles to a fam-
ily. This makes three little fellows that have
found homes in one week’s time.
This month our columns are so filled by good
articles from different writers that most of the
Boards of the other Districts have been crowd-
ed out. However, if these Districts will send
us some news of their work each month we will
gladly make room for it.
Our daughter Dora came home from Indiana
near the last of October, and in less than a week
she went to St. John, Kansas, where she is
leading the singing in a meeting where Bro.
A. J. Smith is doing the preaching. When this
meeting closes she is to teach a class in vocal
music at the same place. .
We have just received from Wyoming a box
containing many clothes outgrown by their
healthy boy, and six pair of good, new, double
blankets, which will be a great help in the Home.
This shows how grateful some people are for
the child we have given them. We certainly
appreciate these valuable presents, and appre-
ciate still more the spirit which prompted the
giving.
A sister in northern Kansas, who knows the
blessedness of having a child come into a home,
has sent five dollars to have the Friend go to
ten families for one year. Most of these fami-
lies have no children, and she believes that they
would be happier—as well as more useful—if
they would take a child. If each family that has
taken a child and appreciates it, would thus get
the Friend into families that ought to have a
child, a world of good could be done.