The evening world., 1889-08-15

foot, and all three arc pnle, thin and I'll.
Now, little man" the doctor says,
here's n card. Dress up in your new
clothes. and OF you go TO tho Seaside Hos.
pital. This letter will introduce YOU TO n
physician, and you nav tell him for me that
If he does not look after that foot OF yours
I'm going TO have trouble with him.
And, Mrs. NJ. I don't want yon to give
any Of these children tea, coffee or pork.
Now, let me zee here IL is noon. What are
You going 10 have for Inner Z"
"Oh. any little thing !" We do not know
that her pantry is empty.
well, say a beef soup. How will that
do?"
Very we'll"
Good. Skim the grease of, put some
vegetables i'll it, and give each child a
bowlful."
By the merest chance l offer to pny for the
soup stock and hand out As cents for ment,
greens and some crackers. In an instant the
little woman is in tears.
Il didn't like 10 say IT. but we have moth
ing nothing but faith in God"
Here she breaks down completely, and pill
FOUNDER and scriLbler are blind with tears.
The little place was so clean and tidy nrd
the children so carefully washed and combed
that We we're completely deceived as to the
actual condition of the family. Later we buy
n small basket of groceries to keep the chill
dren from hunger, and cherish the hope thai
success will reward the efforts of the father.
God only knew where help WIS coming
from before you came. doctor. Thank you
very much. We will pray for you BOTH
Such was her fare well.
On East S~eventeenh street we find eleven
cases Of whooping cough and no doctor in at
tendance. There are thirteen sick children
in one house on East Fifteenth street. aud
many hundred dollars would DO necessary to
make the little invalids comfor! able. We
have a few clothes-a very few-and fewer
dimes, which scarcely pay tor the milk.
What is needed are beds, shoes. some under.
wear, dresses and kits, some wraps for an
outing and wholesome. nourishing food in
abundance.
In this tenement hospital six babies have
diarrhua, two Group, one s%crofula, one liver
trouble, three Summer complaint and all the
chills of poverty.
A little one, only eight years old-a girl
with the head and face of n Cupid, marvellous
eyes and a lovablo disposition-is recovering
from scarlet fever. but she is blind. deaf and
dumb. DR.. Constable has been greatly H.
terested in the case, and ~foresees q partial if
not entire restoration Of the sight. He finds,
too, that the child can hear a little by the aid
Of her teeth, and through him o specialist will
undertake its development.
Here is the report l copy from the doctors
book of a house on East Eighteenth street:
Eighteen families.
Seventy-two children.
Fourteen sick babies.
Six sick adults.
Five dispossess notices.
One insane woman.
One marshal.
Thirty persons barefoot and ragged.
The building is a hve-story dilapidated
structure, which seems to have shared the
lot OF mortals. taken to vicious ways, parted
with every trace of decency, till with Its
shutters knocked of, its windows knocked in,
its doors battered. its walls besmearcd and it's
floors smirched, it is lettering in decay and
ready to topple into the gutter, after
the manner of human wrecks.
We go upstairs through puddles ankle
deep, to the top floor to see Mrs. f.. q most
unhappy woman, with seven children and
not u morsel of food in the house, nor
enough money to buy the handful of salt the
doctor ordered for the chlld's bath. The
eldest boy has been put out with a family to
do chores for his food and clothing. A girl
of twelve minds a baby for tine same misor-
able stipend, but she is as noble as any saint
that ever wore a halo, for after hours she
steals home to her mother, empties her
pocket of the food saved from her own meals
and goes back to her rest. She has an
abscess ON one of her knees and the doctor is
at n loss TO understand her endurance in
making these heroic visits.
The youngest child, n boy of two and a
half. is bow-legged an elder sister has tonsi-
litis a third is frightfully disfgured by n
swelling in one of her cheeks. and all are
covered with boils or sores, tho result of
bad blood, neglect and want.
More than that they are furnishing and in
rags. A few clothes and a few dollars for
food is the sum of our comfort. There is a
notice in tho table drawer, and unless the
rent is paid Monday morning the fatherless
children will be put in the street.
In the adjoining fiat the doctor greetR O
woman carrying, face down. u black-eyed.
murky infant, with 10 more flesh on its body
than n lead pencil.
When did you wash this child ?"
Not since the day you were here"
THAT was a week ago. l wonder what l
had better do with you?"
Now, doctor, don't be hard on me. l
began as you told me-, hut l was afraid if /
washed him too much he'd get the ammonia"
Next floor.
Mrs. Il. is also a widow, the possessor of a
notice to yacate or pay $l5 due to the land
lady before Monday.
My God :" she says, what will l do if
they put me in the street,"
Her children are one. three and four vnars