The evening world., 1894-05-21
BENEFITS FOR BABES.
Actors Will Sing and Dance for
the Free Doctors Fund.
Four Pretty Girls to Manage the
Entertainment.
Good Work Being Done by the Free
Physicians.

we benefits for the Sick Babies
Fund are on the carpet.
one Is n vaudeville show. to be given
Saturday evening at the Central Opera
House. under the management of Miss
Ida Ellsberg, Miss Nathan and the
Misses Diamond. This pretty quartz:
has arranged a first-class entertain
ment. The programme has length,
variety and excellence to recommend 1t.
Every performer is n specialist, and
every ticket holder will find something
particularly interesting.
The young ladies' have arranged
things after the style of the big Vaude-
Vile club, and those who don't care for
singing. dancing, skits. sketches and
footlight fun will rave "A chance to visit
and chatter before, after and all through
the performance without disturbing
anybody or being disturbed. Flower
girls will sell buttonhole bouquets at
Wholesale prices In the lobby; there are
to be girl ushers, girl Ganymedes and
girls in charge OF the programmes and
opera-glasses. Girls will sell the tick
cts and take very good care that they
are paid for at regular rates, to help the
babies Of the New York poor.
The Central Opera-H House Is in Sixty.
seventh street, near Third avenue, and
those who have no engagement for next
Saturday evening and want to be
amused are advised to see the show.
The May party of Prof. Steininger's
pupils wifi occur May 20 at Renwick
cesses Of the Academy, socially. man
cially and artisticaliy.
A graceful and bewitchinR army OF
100 Is In practice for the carnival. New
dresses are being made up with ribbons
and spangles; gold lace is being put up
round about dress coats and Elton
Jackets and every afternoon as
are RI, rehearsals; One the solo dances
sailor-boy and will dance the Highland
fling. Baby Sadie. is a quarter to six
years OF age 1t is all h can do to
keep on her feet. and her steps and
gestures are very winsome.
What these children are doing to help
the Sick Babies Fund must be some
thing Of an inspiration to other well-dis-
posed boys and girls.
The fund Is two months ahead or Its
beautiful self this year, the idea being
to check the diseases known as Summer
complaints, 80 common and SO fatal To
child life, and also to give the lucky 1T
tie New Workers a chance to subscribe
before leaving town. Private schools will
close in a few weeks and there Is talk oil
dismisslng the public schools earlier than
usual. This will cause an exodus oil
pleasure-seekers and the city babies will
be forS often. They don't go out of town
Many Of them never leave the Sitting
rooms where they were born until thu
little White hearse appears. Last week
THE World" doctors made 4,s00 visit,
and prescribed for nearly 400 tots. Man!
OF the parents did not even suspect tina
their children were unwell, yet on ex
animation cases OF diphtheria, measles
scarlet v and pneumonia were dis
covered. together with the physical dis
tress attending the period OF teething
There were 2iO cases OF dlphtheria las
week, II seventy proved fatal. Perhap
the most pitiful sufferers were the babe
found to be actually starving in the mids
Of .l.nty through the ignorance OF de
voted parents. In a city like New Yorl
there Is no time OF year when the ser
vices of intelligent doctors are not needle,
to save the newborn from weli-meaning
but misguided nurses. If you want L
insure some mhdget's life send n dolla
to the cashier of THE World' and mari
1t for the Sick Babies Fund