, 1876-03-18
Women's Work.

fight their way INTO Congress mere Is
something TO show them that they
NAV still find work worthy Of women
TO do. The London Telegraph gives
the following intesestlng sketch Of
the foundation of two Of the London
hospilals-that for the paralytic, In
Bloomsbury, and that for the children
in East London. The first named
was founded thirteen years ago by
two orphan siters, johanna and Louisa
/ Chandler, who have been reared by
Their granmother, whose strong health
and active habits were suddenly
checked by paralysis. In this vista
ton arose the idea of founding the
hospital IN Bloomsbury, which, ike
most institutions of the kind that
have really done good work, has un-
dergone the struggles incidental TO
small beginning. The sisters were
not rich and The history of their
benevolent scheme may be told IN few
words. 1t would certainly have sunk
and perished but for the hearty good
will in which they continued 10 bat
tie with discouragement.
We know a little arr said the
elder sister; 'we will practise it un-
Ill we have gained goo ; We will
/ offer that in earnest OF our sincerity.
and God Will incline some kind hearts
TO take up The cause So the little
fund was worked for, gained End offer
ed devoted men and women were
found to take up the cause, and the
Hospital tor the Paralyzed and Epi-
leptic was durably established. The
younger sister, always delicate lived
only TO see the promise Of success
January, 1873, Johanna Chandler,
by whose exertions The project was
mainly helped forward TO secure well
being, followed to her peaceful and
honored lest.
Like the Hospital for Paralytics
In Bloomsbury, an institution at Rat
cliff cross, called the East London
Hospital for Children, and combining
with It's original purpose the benefits
OF dispensary Tor women, had its
seed i'll personal devotion. a young
surgeon named HekEord, marrying .
lacy as charitable as himself, and,
moreover, endowed by worldly tor-
tune, 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 1865 Charles Dickens wrote
thus OF the more than unseitSh
pair: with every qualification to
lure them away, with youth and
accomplishments and tastes and hab-
It's that can have no response in
any breast near them, close begirth
by every repulsive circumstance in
sepera ble from such a neighbOrhood
thcro they dwell. They live III the
hospital itself, and their rooms are on
It's first floor. Sitting at their dinner
table they could hear the cry of one
OF the children in pain. The lady's
piano, drawing materials, books and
other such evidences of retinemens
are as much part Of the rough place
as The iron belsteads OF the little
PATIENTS
With the magic vivid ness of a pen
that yer had its like for human Dor.
traiture, Dickens drew the young
medical Students likeness: An affect
ing play was acted in Paris years ago
called The Children's Doctor. As
| parted from my Chiidren's Doctor
now in question, | saw in his black
neckLie, in his loose buttoned black
trock coat, in his pensive face, in the
flow Of his dark hair, in his eyelasheS,
in the very turn of his mustache, the
exact realization Of the Paris artists
ideal as it was presented on the stage.
But no romancer That | know OF has
had the boIdness TO preiigure the life
and home of this young husband and
young wife in the Children's Hospital
in the east of London. Young Heck
ford died some few years ago, Of over
work, say all who knew him. The
true lady, ais wife, though living in
Italy, busted with the education of her
daughter, has her heart still in the
river. r.side hospital near Ratcliff high
way, and she is one of lis committee.