The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-27
The Municipality Can Fur
nish Bread, But Patients
Must Trust to Provi-
dence for Jam.
A FIELD FOR CHURCH WORKERS
If You Have Old Clothes Prepare to
Get at %Them-Needs Which
the Taxpayers Can Not or at
Least Do Not Supply.

car. The high bank that sets IL uD from
the street, the line of Towering shrubs
that runs along the edge. and. above all,
the words "City Hospital" traced in lines
of foliage plants on a background OF
close cropped turf, gives it an air OF max
ing the best OF its advantages, much as a
posy bed in the door yard OF q New Eng
land cottage shows a thrifty spirit on the
part of the housekeeper. At first sight,
the whole affair does not look unlike a
we'll kept farm house, u little larger Than
usual, of course. but with the comfortaS
BILE porch and side gate reached by un-
even tagging that belong to truly ru-
raj" dwellings.
But firm houses do not, as a rule. bear
tin signs announcing that d1spenSary
| hours are from WI until four. nor do they
direct the visitor by means OF another
! signboard to the "Warden's Office" Ii
| YOU wish to enter, do not waste time over
| the bell; it has recently sustained Il CONF
| pound fracture, and would make a beau
Iiful subject for treatment. Meanwhile,
| knock. and you will enter the pretty par
lor VIII ere Warden Osborne receives visi-
tors.
The present writer had come on a par
ticular mission. 1t was to find out what
pnilanthropic work was done for the hos
pital aud what ought to be done. 1t was
to make some reply to the circles OF Kings
Daughters, who ask How can we help
the sick Pr aud to those morbidly restless
| young women VINO really want 10 do
something for somebody, but really don't
know what to do. Beyond a vague idea
that invalils require wine jelly, white
grapes and beef tea. Line average girl has
no definite impression of what she could
| II - ~ 1snifnI oUA cn nudu I'M dnintr
notuing. Not so the Unity Circle of the
Uuiversalist Church. They realize that
invalids are human beings, and human
beings LIKE ice CT Team, aud so they supply
that delicacy at irregular intervals. The
| ladies of the Greenvllle Reformed Church,
too,-the Warden says that they come
right in, roll up their sleeves aud go to
| work." serving to the patients, of course
under medical supervision, the goodies
| they have brought. DR.. Brett's church
sends several warin-hearted women; SO
| does the Summit Avenue Baptist Church,
| and SO do ''muny others, TOO numerous TO
meution," a highly convenient way Of
saying that nearly every church phllan-
thropic society takes an interest, more or
| less spasmodic, in the City Hospital.
HOW IT LOOKS.
The best way of finding this ont the
HOSPITALS needs is to look at the hospital.
| So pass into the spick and span mems
l WAL VI, WHGEC bAC o4O ia
eighteen in the surgical aud twenty-five
| in the medical department.. Unlike OGher
hospitals in the city, there are generally
more medical than surgical cases here.
On your left is a poor failow whose arm
| recently left the hospital by nay of the
operating room, and whose breath, even
| in sleep, comes in pit1ful little means.
Another peers at you through a lattice of
Dandages, another gaunt and hollow
| eyed, turns his poor morn face as you pass
aud chokes down the too-talniliar cough.
| No amount of cheerful sunshine and
scripture texts on spotless walls. a
make you forget the tragedy thai has
grown common place here.
E ARRIVAL
Upstairs is the women's ward, arranged
| to correspond, aud ut this writing far
| from crowded. although only last week
| every bed was full. The first thing You
see will give the whole place an air of
healthy happiness quite foreign to wards
in general. There On the lap OF a brown
eyed young nurse, sits a bald-headed
baby, looking as we'll conducted babies
should, like u collection OF balls of tat
welded together, with an apple dumping
for Il head, and this young gentleman
blinks at you with his in~determinate
ewes aud replies to youl advances with
| that gurgling chuckle tnat people write as
'goonbu5 which is like no articulate sound
In existence, and you begin to think that
along with thestragedy there must be sure
ly some happiness In. hospital life. Is there
much for that poor little b1ue-eyed, blue
nosed baby across the Way? He Is DOING
and doing until some day he may never
| wake up, because he did not start lite
with enough red corpnscles in his blood.
Now does it occur to you. Kings
Daughter what you may do in this wards
Not one out OF ten of the mothers of these
| little ones has enough for her own needs.
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for plain Sc ewing, you can use IL in making
nfant's outfits. plain little garments that
will be of untold service here. Warden
Osborne said so himself.
YORK FOR A KINGS DAUGHTER,
While we are talking about clothing.
Kings Daughter, let us discuss some OF
the wants In other wards. Perhaps you
may not hin that invalids require
woollen dresses and hats aud cioaks, but
they do. These invalids do not. as a rule,
possess large wardrobss. Thew frequently
own one more or less incomplete set of
garments. These they wear on admission
to the hospital. When these clothes are
washed, they seem to collapse from sur
prise, aud " lille suitable for mop cloths,
lave lost their usefulness as wearing aD-
parel. hen sometimes a man owns only
one coat and thoughtlessly me-
elects to remove it wnen al engine
strikes him, to the detrimeut of the
COdU. b:CoO paVlOht5 dt6 OloSuhGReO
they are literally destitute OF wearing ap.
parel. aud cases are on record where pm
tlents have been obliged to remain for a
week after discharge, waiting until some
thing In the line of clothes could be pro-
cured. The need for clothing IL an ever
present aud pressing one, and deserves
the attention of the housewife just as she
is about cleaning out closets for the fall.
IT she should find garments at which the
lunkman would look glum, she need not
not be afraid to send them with the rest.
The patients are not particular. when it
Is a question of poor clothes or no clothes.
FOOD FOR THE SICK.
Then. in the matter of delicacles, Kings
Daughter, you know that when you were
getting over the scarlet fever and the
measles you had a capricious appetite that
couldn' find itself satisfied with every
day fare, but needed a taste OF something
a little more delicate. Perhaps you re-
member that stage of convaiescence when
your ouly aim was to eat. and You cata-
logned your friends by what they brought
you:-"Mrs. Brown, cream custard; Mrs.
| Smith. blanc-manQe.u and "a on. Thesa