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 Ice given
Saturday evening at the Central opera
House. under the management OF Miss
Ida Ellsberg, Miss Nathan and the
Misses Diamond. This prety dunrtc;
has arranged IA tirst-Class entertain
mcnt. The programme has length,
variety and excellence TO recommend II.
Every performer Is n specialist. and
every ticket holder will ind something
particularly interesting.
The young ladies' have arranged
things after the style OF the big Naudc-
willie club. and those who don't care for
singing. dancing. skits. sketches and
footliGht fun will rave n nance to visit
and chatter before. after and all through
the performance without disturbing
anybody or being disturbed. Flower
girls will sell buttonhole bouquets nj
wholesale prices in the lobby; there are
to be girl ushcrs. 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 Tor ut regular rates, to- help the
babies of the New York poor.
The Central Opera-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.
pupils will occur May ~ at Renwick
aGs ss, "n nd Promises S ASaSs to be s sns ii the sn sas-
sially and artistically.
A graceful n bewitching. army. of
lO 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
spe reha as seA0 One Il q soi;o da amsrs
Marks. She is to be dressed like a
satlor-boy and viii dance the Highland
years of age. 1t Is all she can do to
keep on her feet. and her steps and
gestures are very winsome. ., ,o,,
the Sick Babies Fund must be some
thing OF an inspiration to other well-dts'
posed boys and girls.
The fund Is two months ahead Of 1t:
beautiful self this year. the idea helnl
to tive the free doctors an opportunity
to check the diseases known as Snmme,
complaints, so common and SO fatal Il
child life. and also to give the lucky lit
tie New Workers n chance to subscrih,
before leaving town. Private schools vii
close in n few weeks and there is talk o
atsmissins, the public schools earlier thar
r"Inl, This viii cause an eNodu q
plclsure-scekcrs and the city babies vii
he fors often. They don't go out of town
Many OF them never leave the stttlinl
rooms where they We're born until tn
I'LL" white hearsr appears. Last wee
The Worla' doctors made i,SD visit
and prescribed for nearly 400 tots. Man
OF the parents did not even suspect tina
thcir children We're unwell, yet on e>
r animation cases OF aiphtheria, measle
|, scarlet fever n pneumonia We're di'
covered, together with the ply steal al!
tress attending the period Of teethinl
e Thsrs were 30 cases OF diphtheria Ia.
week., and seventy proved fatal, PerhaI
the most pitiful sufferers were the hahi,
u found to be actually starving In the mid.
! Of l.nty through the ignorance NJ a.
A voted parents. In II city like New Ynr
, there IS ~ time Of year when the Sc
! Vices Of Intelligent doctors are not need,
to save the new horn from well -meanin
r hut misguided nurses. II Won want
insur, some miig"t's life send n dOlls
To the cashier Of The World" and MAJ
= II for the Sick Babies Fund.