So encouraging was the response that the committee soon broadened its efforts to include reading to patients at their bedsides, sending flowers to brighten the wards, and distributing toys to the children. But why stop there when there when the need was so great and there was so much to accomplish? By , the Ladies Visiting Committee, as the or-. During the dreary winter months and especially around the holiday season, the ladies concentrated. That the auxiliary maintained and managed all the money funneled.