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.

Two 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 n flrst-class entertain
ment. The programme has length,
variety and excellence to recommend 1t.
Every performer is a 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 care for
singing, dancing, skits. sketches and
footlight fun will have 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-House is in Sixty
seventh street, near Third avenue, n
those who have no engagement Tor next
Saturday evening. and want to be
The May party of Prof. Steininger's
pupils will occur May 20 at Renwick
Hall, and promises to be one Of the sue
cesses Of the Academy, socially. inan-
A graceful and bewitching. 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 Eton
Jackets, and every afternoon as
are rehearsals. One the solo dance;
Marks: She IS to BE dressed like q
sallor-b9y and will dance the Highland
fling. Baby Sadie Is a quarter to six
keep on her feet. and her steps and
gestures are very winsome.
what these children are doing to hell
the Sick Babies Fund must be some.
thing OF an inspiration to other well-dis.
posed boys and girls.
beautiful self this year. the idea belne
to live the free doctors an opportunity
to check the diseases known as Summer
complaints. so common and SO fatal &c
child life. and also to give the lucky lit
tie New Workers n chance to subscribe
before leaving town. Private schools vii
close In II few weeks and there is talk ol
dismlssing the public schools earlier thar
usual. This will cause an exodus Of
pleasure-seekers and the city babies vii
be fort often. They don't go out of town
Many OF them never leave the stifint
rooms where they were born until tn,
little white hearse appears. Last weel
THE World" doctors made 4,S00 visit
and prescribed for nearly 400 tots. Man.
Of the parents did not even suspect tina
their children We're unwell. yet on ex
animation cases of diphtheria. measles
scarlet fever and pneumonia were dis
covered. together with the physical dis
tress attending the period of teethinp
/, There were $40 cases OF dIphtheria las
week. and seventy proved fatal. Perhap
the most pitiful sufferers were the bal .
found to be actually starving in the mills
of .l.nty through the ignorance OF de
voted parents. In n city like New Yorl
there Is no time of year when the ser
vices of intelligent doctors are not neede
to ave the newborn from well-meaninp
but misguided nurses. II you want I
insure some midget's life send n dolla
to the cashier of THE World' and mar
It for the Sick Babies Fund.