New-York tribune., 1876-12-05
HELP FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

TRIBUNE enters this morning, there are very
few in which the central point OF interest Is
not the one member who does not read lHE
TRIBUNE, and knows nothing OF business,
politics, or religion-the baby, the boy, the
wonderful wean, the little life which unfolds
further and further each day like miracu-
lous flower. 1t is he who is well fed and
daintily clad, no matter who IN the household
goes shabby and hungry; he who has the
warm corner, the soft bed. 1t is for him the
iaded mother stitches late into the night and
builds castles radiant with the glory of her
own youth for him the father gives up his
own comfort, success, place in life. There Is
not one of our readers who has not at this
moment in his minds eye some chubby
checked, beloved little tyrant born to rule in
happy home.
Outside of these happy homes there are
babies and little children just as tender, just
as helpless, just as much of miracle fresh
from Gods hand. Thousands. tens OF thou
sands of them grow wan and sicken from
their birth in the cellars where they belong
the crowded, filthy tenement houses. Instead
of babyhood defended by the care and skill
of mothers, nurses, and doctors, they fight
with death daily even in their cradles Their
fathers sacrifice no comfort or ambition to
them; they know neither comfort nor ambi-
ton 1t is well if they keep them from star
vaton by hard work-well if work is to be
had at all. Their mothers love them as
tenderly, but they are not likely to
dream of coming happy years over their
pinchcd and hungry faces; the present years
are too breathless, real, and terrible. AT no
Ia no Wis
ibe which yawns between these different
classes of children az in the Summer, when
disease is rife among them all, and the fierce
heat and foul air of the cities are certain death
to their already weakened bodies. The chill
dren of the rich man are carried to mountain
or seaside and the pure air restores them as
by magic; so certain is the cure, and so abso-
lutely necessary to life that there are few
children, even of families whose means are
greatly straitencd that are allowed to remain
in town during the bot months. The children
of the very Door do remain, and, as we all
know, they are swept into the grave by the
thdMsand weekly.
1t entered into the hearts of some good
women last year (women, doubtless, with
children of their own) to give to these little
seaside was fitted up, and destitute sick
children taken to it and kept there until health
was restored 1870 children were thus cared
for and saved. The managers propose TO make
permanent sanitarium "by the erection Of
"plain. comfortable paviions at the seaside"
They have determined not 90 erect q costly
" structure" and promise mat "not n dollar
"Of debt shall be incurred, and that every
"pcnny raised will be applied directly to the
"object desired" To raise the requisite funds
n fair will be held mt the Academy OF Music
from the 11th To the 10th of December, and
they ask for help in money, goods of any
description, time, or labor. We do not mean
to say word to urge this cause upon our
readers. They need but look in the faces of
their own little ones and those of the paupers
without their gates. Why should the one be
blessed and the other cursed? Both are children
of the same Father. He gives us the means
to help them, and the day will come when He
will require the lives of both at our hands.