Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1901-11-02
Home For the Sick Where Cool,
Fresh Breezes Ever
Blow.
Many Rooms Should Be Fur
nished by the Fraternal
Societies.
SEWING SOCIETY DOING NOBLE WORK

IOI OF DldU. MOucIu Skill anu WiouOhi
combine with charity and benevolence to
care for the weak, cherish the injured,
heal the wounded and soften the pain OF
those afflicted. Piety and science have
: now joined hands for the healing of the
people, and love, self-abnegaiion and
medical and surgical skill have united
everywhere in civilized lands for the aid
of the unfortunate. Among the many
notable illustrations of these conditions
none will be more prominent in the area
they care for aud the opportunities they
offer than the new St. Anthony's Hos
pital, now nearing completion on Barrett
avenue, and which the good Franciscan
Sisters hope to soon open to the sick and
unfortunate of all creeds and national
tiles.
Situated on an elevation high above
the level of the streets of Louisville, the
hospital is thus afforded conspicuous
eligibility for drainage, views of country
and charming green dell, and also rests
quiet above the city, home for the sick
in the clouds, where fresh, cool breezes
ever blow, and where from every room
and ward the eyes of the suffering in
mates may restfully scan such pleasing
pictures as themselves conduce to return
ing strength and health. Not window
but opens on a grateful view; not a
screened porch but shows far and near
sights of the recurring loneliness of
nature at her BEST Those who have
passed weary weeks of pain and suffering
in hospitals whose windows abutted on
either brick walls or stuffy, crowded
streets, will easily appreciate what it
means to seek for health where nature at
her best joins earnestly with skill and
science in the relief of pain and the heal
ing of the sick and suffering.
Scarcely year will have elapsed from
the laying of the cornerstone of this
stately, noble edifice before the portals
are thrown open and the gentle Sisters
begin their work for the sick and the
injured. The hospital will accommodate
hundreds of patients, and will be
equipped with bath and toilet rooms and
every healthful convenience known to
invention or experience. Under the
charge of the Franciscan Sisters this in
stitution will know no creed or color,
and black or white, Greek, Turk or Gen
tile, infdel, agnostic, Protestant and
Catholic will receive alike the quiet, ten
der ministrations of the self-abnegating
Sisters, whose placid, unruffled lives con-
tnue peacefully, and who know no differ
ence in those committed to their charge.
With a competent and skillful hospital
staff of able and experienced physicians
and surgeons; with a splendidly equipped
establishment, supplied with everything
known to the most advanced circles of
modern medicine; with situation unsur-
passed in the whole country as to ventiia-
ton, drainage, fresh air and attractive
ssnd stimulating environments, St.
Anthonys will certainly offer every pos
sible advantage to rich and poor alike for
the cure of serious diseases, as a retreat
for those in an enfeebled or anemic con-
dition, where such care as usually only
comes from mother or wife is freely be-
slowed.
Sister Josepha, from the Franciscan
mother house at Lafayette, Ind, was
here this week, and expressed herself as
both surprised and pleased with the
splendid progress being made in the
erection of the building and its arrange
ment. Another gratifying surprise was
the great amount of work already per-
formed by the ladies of the ST. Anthony
Sewing Society. This society is COM
posed of prominent ladies of all the
churches of this city, who meet weekly
for the purpose Observing and furnishing
the linens for the hospital. 1t was organ
lied by Mrs. John Walters, Mrs. Frank
Geher and other ladies we'll known for
their charity, and now numbers over
1920 members, who each pay the small
sum of ten cents per month for this very
laudable object. The next meeting of
the society for the collection of dues will
take place Monday evening at the home
of the Franciscan Sisters, 62l East Gray
street, and on Thursday next they will
all meet to sew. Those in charge would
be delighted if all the ladies enrolled and
their friends would be present on both
occasions and IT is hoped they will not
be disappointed.
Quite a number of fraternal and benev-
client societies will, it is understood, fur
nish rooms which will be named Tor them,
where their sick or disabled members
will be cared for These rooms will be