The evening world., 1890-06-21
Give THEM LIFE.
Help The Sick Babies Through The
Free Doctors Fund.
Hundreds Of Little Ones Dying
In This Big City.
Send in Your Mite TO Buy Them
Medicines.

To be a baby II a misfortune. Even u
high life he is the victim Of a refined system
Of torture. made hideous by safety pins tina
are not safe; nurse-girls who belle the name
and soothing syrups that are as raspinR il
their influence AZ the collie.
But to be a baby in low life and In tn,
steeplechase towards manhood. to be handi
capped by poverty and disease. is deplorable.
Poverty. like happiness, il born a twin.
and starvation breeds not one but q swarm
of physical troubles that persecute tho chill.
dren Of succeeding generations.
1t would seem that the utmost depths oil
misfortune we're reached when a little child
brought face to face with priyation, should
be hindefed in the fight for existence BY
consuming fevers. crumblinR bones and
disjointed limbs.
Our sympathies are wrought up ut sight
OF n consumptive who with the vitality OF
maturity IN battling for life. but when the
vichm Ia an infant whose age In reckoned in
weeks or months the spectacle 10 one that
makes the heart sick.
And yet there are whole neiRhborhoods in
the lower part Of tho city blackened by the
path of this most fatal OF all diseases.
Medical students and dispensAry physi-
clans who minister TO the unfortunates OF
Pell. Pike. Mott and Mulberry streets are
able to tell the offspring of consumptive
parents by looking at them.
IL is seldom that any importance is
attached to these cases. for so insidous is
disease that the most vigilant care and
nursing will not make a thriving child OF
the one so cruelty cursed by heredity.
In infancy this dreaded malady takes the
form OF bronchitis, pneumonia or Group,
comprising with measles Inc scarlet fever
the five fatal diseases from which result the
frightful mortality Of the city. the deaths
among children being four times greater
than IN adult. tho estimate being that ono
fifth Of the population die before reaching
the age of eighteen months.
1t IL not possible to know tho suffering OF
these waits of humanity without actually
visiting them In the fetid quarters OF the
tenement-house district. and even then the
senses are deadened by specializing on the
further endurance of life under such aggros-
siye circumstance.
1t Is folly to tell the ignorant mother that
she must give her little one better nourish-
ment, when her ignorance blinds her to the
fact Of improvements
1t is folly to condemn the milk which 10
poisoning the little life, knowing that she IL
unable to pay for q better quality.
All day long and through the restless
nights these poor weddings are taking into
their lungs the malignant germs that lurk
In the old garments Of elder brothers and
sisters.
Living in dark homes where the cool.
clean air never circulates and the cleansing
annahina pf haavAn nayar nanatrataa tina
helpless little ones linger a few months and
die by thousands, actually starved for the
little breath OF wholesome air that would
have kept them alive.
In sending youi contribution to The
EVENING WORLDS Sick BABY Fund, remem-
Der that YOU are helping to spread the gos-
pei OF fresh air. home nursing. domestic
hygiene aud cleanliness.
Remember that every dollar will help
widen the field OF health and spread the
sanitary mission work.
Remember. that the most fatal diseases are
the preyentable ones which medical advice.
proper nursing, intelligent forethought and
prompt action will cure.
Remember. that in helping the sick babies
YOU are saving the miniature men and
women Tor future usefulness, and laying the
foundation for coming good.
Remember. YOU are strong and well and
able. and the objects OF your compassion are
weak. sick and poor.
Remember that your generosity will touch
4 responsive chord In other hearts and make
new friends for the friendless little ones.
Remember that it is dangerous TO delay;
that the month is waning; the work is
urgent, and that already the diseases that