Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-09-05
PATIENTS PAPERS.
The Literature Supplied to Sick
Folks in the City Hospitals.
A WclI-EstabIisIcd Charity-CuriOus
Contributions OF WcIl-Intcn-
toned Persons-How the So
ciety Gets Its Books.
[Philadelphia Times. ]

s.id flo ,.lorl, ~ fl,a ,1ina ~ tho Socntv for
Dist,il,,,i,', paaIi,,,r ,tot,or e., unst,itaIs
nc L t,,,,,oI d., oon.o,,s - .
.lodor ho.l,o+ ON tha tollo and ho,on tn
so,t ,io,, a,,or .V,r'd ha .,,,..,,.;s,d 20 .on
some of fine stufT we oet. Now here is a
nanor " b,Ijiu,, u,, n ,,irl, tintad .bont "thnt
would fax fine incenuitv Of some of our hos
nitol p,tiants What is if, Suouish We
don't want too many of thot kind We think
notbiny b,,vov,r Of ,rattin,, nonars nrinted
in nil thn continental ionguagns II is SIR
urisinp how many French German and even
Russian m,ilications find their wav here
",rl,o o.,, ,,,. o.;1o aud dis,r;b,toi in
sroci,I ,,sns r. tho Mariners, lil,rarv for in.
.t,un, ,,1 ,,.,,ol, i,s,i,,+ion. os Tho 600.
mans, E,iani., ynni,ty So,,,on of all ma.
tinnali.i,s 'l, thora nnd ~, ncco.ionol nanar
,ri,,ta,l i, H., ,lthar ,nn,,,,o is ,,ro,,i, an,
ureciat,d Now and then we get n Chinese
Iuper Pve Of @, wondered whether they
were mt in tbe bo. NV thinomen At all
events tberp's very little use for them. for it's
an uncommon thing to find Celestial in a
philadelpbia hosnitol Some of them am
told never ba. n Chimes. patient We Keen
the papers rs curiojties.
Most of tbe n,,o,s ,va cet i, tbo hovas
orr nav ~. Of nn,n,o,otivai,, rocon+ dot.
Nov and tbon thnu,h ,yo e,rt n hatch flIad
9th onti,uoto1 60 Sa,,o,oI ,,ool,s aro
thor, vo. n L,,rdIa Lr,uob+ il, Of Public
Ledgers quarter of a century old. Another
batch had papers dated as far back as ls43"
did Won Use Them
"Ob. YES: news isn't of much account to n
man on his back. Those poor hospital fellows
will read ANYTHING. We have three regular
boxes now-one at the Broad street station.
another mt Broad ana Chestnut streets and
the one in front of this building. The other
boxes are special boxes and the collections in
them are devoted to individual hospitals.
The matter in thr boxes is collected every
day. We get very little besides npwspaper's
in that wav. however. Occasionally Pucks
slim in and Harpe,s md Frank Leslies. too
but the bulk is dailies. especially at the
BROAD street station box"
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"Tbe coior.d cartnon naners and the ilus-
trated weekies These. always - hig he.
rnond for them The daily collections n ere
gate about twenty-five pound, 1t varies
though I'm summer when folk, are away.
the supply falls very low and we Get scarcely
epouph 70 ro round Winter is the best time
Our collections are ALWAYS larger in cold
weather Sometimes +, ey are double Since
the REORGANIZATION of the society in 1852 the
collections. and disbursements have aggre-
gated over four tons
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