The evening world., 1890-07-21

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melancholy interest.
Going from house to house through
e. omy halls that lead 10 Raunt rooms, VI
aud down palsied atairways by which sun.
baked garrets and nusty, foul.smsllins
cellars are reached, these harbinRers OF
health are sympathetic witnesses OF
shadow pictures which the ubiquitous
post and police man never dream Of. In
the foreground is misery, her garments
rudely held together with pins, straps OF
solitaire buttons. fighting star ~ystion, dis.
ease or death; and grouped about the
central figure are the children OF mis-.
fortune, the skeletons OF youth. and their
progenitors, now decrepid. lame, deaf,
blind, wien, toothless, helpless and
nrmless, waiting with q fierce sort Of con-
tentment for something, they know not
what, 10 happen.
To this job lot of human wretchedness
the free physician, with his CHEEKY words,
bis reassur,ng hand clasp, his patient in
dulgence, his fUrbearance and kindly
responsiveness, comes like some holy
man to comfort and inspire b. his very
p]rescnce. The half naked, half fed, half
savage little children run to meet him
nnd for Il penny OF IL sweet word gladly
pilot him through the luGyriuths where
squalidity and Dauperism thrive, the
adults stealthily follow i'll his footsteps
and humbly beg for his assistance at the
little crib or the cot where then suffering
children or kin lay, yanquished by the
cruelty of fate.
Sometimes the afflicted is a dumb
nuImsl, a faithful dog beloved by a
cripple child or the noble guardian Of IA
blind man.
Only yesterday while making the rounds
OF a, dilapidated tenement, DIR. McKew WIS
asked to I" help II poor sick dog" Being
something of u dog ~fancier, ,he looked at
the p ostrAt1 brute, mud finding IL in n
high state of fever, wrote IA prescription,
and told the lonely woman who owned it
and shared its misery that he would see
Bruce " next day when he called on the
sick baby III the adjoining room. This
sort OF humane interest will make new
friends for the whole corps and insure
the tender. hearted doctor u warm well
come In that house.
In another building DIR. McKew came
across his ideal OF true Christian charity.
On u bed near the open window Of a small
kitchen lay u little Italian boy, gradually
nearing deaths door. His face was wan.
his eyes were glazed, his lips were parched
aud his tiny hands were 30 thin and
wasted that the sunlight Shone pink
through them. At the bedside sat O
sweet-looking, richly dressed lady, fau-
ming with IL hand the pale little face on
the pillow, aud with the other caressing
the fever burning arms and chest. Within
reach was her white pocket handkerchief,
flied with crushed ice crystals, of which
she gently forced between the feverish
lips. She hive. III q mansion uptown, and
had been down in this howell of distress all
night watching the brown little child.
When DR.. McKew finished talking about
the criais and the medicine he asked how
lie should address her.
Nurse" WAS the modest reply.
But your name is ?"--
4 WouAa ihklpl Jou SuoIlu hct hhON
1t. live uptown. l am not connected
with any organization nor do l represent
any church. / heard of the little fellows
sickness by chance and when / came and
found how serious the case was end how
tired the poo mother il from loss of sleep
| offered to relieve her. That is all. But
| Rm feeling a little weak. | have had no
breakfast and If you will get mo some
coieo and a roll will forgive your curl
osity."
The doctor refused her request. insist
ing that she accompany him, arguing that
prolonged stay III tho hot rooms might
result disastrously to her health.
And where do you think this good ma
turei medical tyrant took the Florence
Nightingale of New York?
10 q Grand street saloon!
She WAS seated at q round table, and
after a whispered conversation at the bar
the stragglers were dispersed, q guard
WIS put at the screened door to forbid
entrance. and with this restriction the
sweet-faced lady was served with brown
bread and butter, cold tongue and hot
coffee. The proprietor said as he passed
tho change of q fifty cent coin to the
doctor shes the first lady, God bless
her, that's ever crossed my door, And
the free physician said, as he babe her
good-by nj the street door OF the teno-
meut! For pure unauthorized charity
yCu deserve a medal of honor"
DR., Quinn has a pitiable case in hand
on which he has bestowed an interest
amounting to brotherly love. The mother.
a widow. lives in one of the tenements
in West Twenty, seventh street. with her
six children, the eldest a boy of nineteen,
efforts 10 support the family have
been most heroic.
The poor fellow is suffering from a
lubercular disease Of the hip Joint. There
are several serious openings along the
thigh and the doctor pronounces it AN in
caze. Notwithstanding his son
he has bravely taken position on
the corner OF Twsnty-third street and
syenu in storm and sun. where he
sells newspaper, the profits on which help
to support the family. Now he is be-
ginning 20 lose heart.
Ii is not that he COMPLAINS about the