The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
WOmen,s Work.

If Mrs. Lilly Dervereux Blake and the
rest of the strohg-ninded fail to fgh
their way into congress here is something
to show them that they may still find
work worthy of women to-dO. The Lott
don Telegraph gives the following inter
esting sketch of the foundation Of two OF
the London hospitals-that for the para
lytic, in Bloomsbury, and that for the
children, in East London. The first
named was founded thirteen years ago
| by two orphan sisters. Johanna and Lou
lisa Chandler, who had been reared by
| their grandmother, whose strong health
and active habits were suddenly checked
by paralysis. In this visitation arose the
idea of founding the hospital in Blooms
bury, which, like most institutions of the
kind that have really done good work,
has undergone the struggles incidental 10
a small beginning. The sisters were not
rich; and the history of their benevolent
scheme may be told in few words. 1t
would certainly have stink and perished
but for the hearty goodwill in which
they continued to battle with discouf-
agement. "We know a little art" said
the elder sister; eve will practice II I'M
til we have gained e200; we will offer
that in earnest of our sincerity, and God
will incline some kind hearts 10 take up
the cause" So the little fund was worked
for, gained and offered; devoted men and
women were found to take up the cause,
and the hospital for the paralyzed and
epileptic was durably established. The
younger sister, alwaysdelicate, lived only
to see the promise of success; and in
January, 1915, Johanna Chandler, by
whose exertiOns the project was mainly
helped forward to a secure wellbeing,
followed to her peaceful and hotiored |
rest Like the hospital for paralytics in
Bloomsbury, an Institution at Ratclitfe- |
cross, called the East London hospital |
for children, and combining with its orig !
inal purpose the benefits of dispensary |
for women, had its seed in personal de- !
votion. A young surgeon named Heck
ford, marrying lady as charitable as
himself, and, moreover, endowed by /
worldly fortune, went hand and hand
with her into the business of doing good.
The story of their married life, linked
with that of the hospital, is one of the
most romantic that ever dealt with deeds
of human kindness. In 1868 Charles
Dickens wrote thus of the more than un-
selfish pair: "With every qualification
to lure them away, with youth and ac-
and tastes and habits that
can have no response in any breast near
them, cl ose begirth by every repulsive
inseparable from such
there they dwell. They
live in the hospital itself, and their rooms
are on the first floor. Sitting at their
they could hear the cry of
1ne of the children in pain. The lady's
piano, drawing materials, books and other
such evidences of refinement are as much
part of the rough place as the iron bed
,teads of the little PATIENTS With the
magic vividness of pen that never had
is like for human portraiture, Dickens
lrew the young medical students li6c-
ness: can affecting play was acted in
Paris years ago, called The Children's
Doctor AsI parted from my children's
loctor now in question, / saw in his easy
black necktie, in his lOose-buttOned black
rock-coat, in bis pensive face, in the flow
# his dark hair, in his eyelashes, in the
-ery turn of his moustache, the exact,
ealization of the Paris artists ideal, as
t was presented OH the stage. But no
omancer that | know of has had the
,oldness to prefgurc the life and home of
his young husband and young wife in
he Children's hospital in the east of
Iondon." Young Heckford died some
ears ago, ofoverwOrk, say all who knew
i'm. The true lady, his wife, though
ivingin Italy, busted with the education
# her daughter, has her heart still in the
iver-side hospital near Ratcliff highway;
nd she is one OF its committee.