The evening world., 1894-06-02
YOU CAN LEND A HAND.
The Sick Babies Fund Has Over
l,400 Patients on the List.
vesta TiIley Pays for the Health
Insurance Of Five.
Poor Children Need Looking After
Now for Obvious Reasons.
The subscriptions.

1t only takes dollar to cure a sick
baby. When pretty Nesta Tilley heard
this yesterday, she put her hand In her
vest pocket. pulled out bill. and said:
"I'n pay for five cures. i sail to-mor-
row, and / want to do something to
bring me luck"
Miss Tilley believes In luck. and is
willing to pay for It. She didn't know
that there were any people In America
too poor to buy medicines and food for
their sick children, until THE Evening
World" Fund was opened. 1t may as
tonish her to be told that the free doc
tors made q, ,47S visits last month. found
/, ,422 sick children. many of whom were
so very, very poor that the physicians
had to fill their own prescriptions
The charming little singer does great
deal in the way of charity when she Is
at home. Whenever she plays at Christ
mas time she distributes 1000 tickets
among the poor children of the sur
rounding towns and gives each of them
piping hot plum pudding dinner.
There are thousands of little ones In
England who bless Vesta Tilley's name
and look upon her as n fairy godmother.
Can't the reader who is perfectly
familiar with the workings of the Sick
Babies Fund and the ever-swelling tide
of distress that washes the shores OF
our city contribute enough to pay Tor
just for luck. and in Frightening your
own fortune help to better some one
who Is worse off. Poverty isn't as bad
or as hard to endure as pain. Man only
needs u few clothes, few pounds OF
food and n roof that doesn't leak to be
comfortable, and with health and a little
philosophy thrown In to be happy But
IL he lacks health. II his body Is pain
is the condition of the pensioners of the
Sick Babies Fund.
When the doctors call at the wretched
homes along the rivers edges and ask
II they is anything they can do. the
inevitable reply OF the mother Is:
only get my child we'll"
With good health the possibilities of
man are all but limitless; One Of the
staff doctors hits the nail squarely on
the head when he writes to the Chief
OF Corps:
been year in the history of the Fund
when the children needed looking after
as they do this year. The reason Is
plain enough. Every one knows what
poor. The men have been out of work.
Credit is hard to get; the pawnbrokers
will lend nothing on furniture and
clothes. and the results show on the chill
dren. as case l had uptown Saturday
will Illustrate. ! found child with fol-
licular-tonsilitis. but very much sicker
than she would usually be. On inquiry
It came out that owing to lack Of work
the children had been on short COM
mons for some time, and the mother. the
patient and the other child were de-
bilitated and anaemic In consequence.
The results IL that the poor little ones
were not in even their usual state
to resist sickness, and II we would save
the children now Is the time. And we
must work sharply to do it."
Just send any change you can spare
to the cashier of "The World" and the
Sick Babies Fund will put II to hte best
possible use.
Any clothing. bedding or perambula-
tors not needed may be sent to Mrs
Roberts, 22S East Twenty-first street.