Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
CHILDREN COMBAT
PAIN OF DISEASE
Inmates of Hospital on CASTELAR,
Street Look Forward to
Improved Home

Ailments born of poverty are much
in evidence at the Children's hospital
769 CASTELAR, street. which is soon to
be replaced by larger and better in
stitution. If the hopes of the women
interested in It's work are realized.
Rosy, a 2-year-old Assyrian child,
who has been in the institution year,
Is suffering from ricketts,, caused by
bad hygienic conditions, bad air, bad
surroundings, poor nutrition for the
mother. Rosy has never walked, while
her vocabulary consists of the one
word, daddy" With the aid of
walker "a wooden support with a
cushioned seat in it), in which she is
set, she propels herself around the nur-
sery, often bringing the nurses neces-
sary articles and always making sun
shine.
Though unable to express her wants
with words, she understands all that is
said to her and will respond to pleas
ant suggestions with a radiant smile
and a kiss thrown by. one of the tiny
understood hands. The nurses hope
that in the course of time little Rosy
will be able to walk as well as any
one, and with her development will
surely come the power Of speech.
HOSPITAL is HER "HOME"
For the stranger attracted by the
luminous eyes of Rita as she trudges
from bed to bed with her toys, and
who is sufficiently inquisitive to ask,
''Who are you, little one?" Rita has
the enllghtening answer: Just Mex"
That the child has no home feeling or
a sense of family ties is easily ac-
counted for by the fact that out Of her
three years OF life two have been spent
there; one long, painful year bound to
a frame made of iron and canvas with
her suffering little body strapped tight
ly down to keep 1t in the proper po-
sition.
Rita fell from a porch when she was
q few months over one year old, and it
is to this accident that her parents
attributed her disabled hip, but the
hospital authorities say it is tubercu-
losis of the hip and that the fall had
nothing to do with it. A short time
after Rita came to the hospital her
mother died of tuberculosis. Occa-
sionally the father visits the little girl,
but to her consciousness the nurses are
the only parents. the hospital her only
home.N She spends a good deal of time
most motherly attitude towards her
and choosing to be delighted with each
new trick this baby learns.
EVELYN is HEROIC CHILD
Another child whose home is to all
intents and purposes the hospital is
Evelyn. Her father died some time
ago at the Barlow sanitarium. Her
mother keeps a boarding house as a
means of support for herself and
sick son. Evelyn lives at the hos
pital and will probably continue to do
so for a long time. She, too, has
diseased hip and just now she is
wrapped in a plaster cast for the pur-
pose of keeping the crooked little hip
in proper position. How long such
wearying treatment will be necessary
for the child is question, but all the
nurses are hoping for a complete re-
covery She, is good little girl, caus-
ing no trouble all day long, lying with
pathetic sweetness on her bed, bound
In the cast so that she cannot move
part of her body, but invariably find
ing something worth while to play with
or think about.