South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-20
Silk Stockings Bring in Many
Dollars to Babies Dispensary
Earliest Mails Bring Response
to, News Times Latest Ap-
peal in Behalf of Babies.

Scarcely had the mail man made
his first delivery Saturday morning
when two little pink silk stockings, ad-
dressed to the Babies Health,
Strength and Happiness Fund" were
returned to the News-TimeS office
containing crisp bills for the babies
had arrived, and the prospuect Is
that the pink stocking campaign"
will bring in the best results of any
method yet tried in the effort TO raise
money for the dispensary.
The first stocking TO arrive con-
tanned dollar bill from "a friend"
and the second, $2.25 from the office
employees of the George Cutter Co.
The others contained various sans
but bore no names of the senders.
With Health, Strength and Happi-
ness for the Babies" as its slogan, the
pink stocking campaign" was
launched Friday afternoon by the
NewS-TimeS.
Its purpose is 10 raise the present
dispensary fund TO an adequate sum
by Christmas day.
Following a suggestion made by
Miss Anna E. COuShaine, recently in
the city in the interests of Epworth
hospital, the News-Times Friday sent
out through the mails 600 cards bear
ing a plea for the babies. On each
card is a tiny pink stocking in which
the contribution is to be placed and
addressed to the BABIES Health,
Strength and Happiness fund, News
Times office.
A similar campaign conducted by
Miss Coushaine in Buffalo raised
$4,000 in three days for a children's
hospital.
What will it do for the babies Of
South Bend?
only s1.7OO has been raised thus
far, $500 less than is required to run
the dispensary one year. Yet the
dispensary association hopes to build
a little cottage which will cost not
less than $4,000.
Cards Bear Two Pictures.
The cards sent out yesterday bear
two pictures, one of Il tiny baby, poor
and sickly, it's littla head dropping
10 one side. it's mouth gasping and
it's eyes listless-the type Of baby for
whom the dispensary exists-the 9TH
er of a chubby. laughing youngster'
with life written in irs dimpled cheek
and dancing eyes. Between the pic
lures is placed the little silk stocking
and around them is printed the ex-
planation. This baby is puny, sick
and poorly nourished. The money
you place IN the stocking VIII MAKE
her bright, chubby and healthy like
this one. Help the News-Times to
give the dispensary babies the great
est gifts in the world,-health
strength and happiness. Put the
money in the stocking and address
it To the Babies Health, strength
and happiness fund News-Times OF
fice."
A contribution of S25 from the La
dies Aid society OF the First Pres
byterian church, the high school gift
Of $50, and s715 from the toy con-
test made a substantial increase IN
the fund Friday.
With the closing of the schools Tor
the Christmas holidays. zest VIII be
added 10 the toy contest, for from
now until Christmas eve when the
contest closes, the boys and girls VIII
be free to beod all their efforts upon
earning one OF the beautiful toys and
at the same time TO help the babies
The interest OF the children In the
welfare OF the babies has been one
touching feature throughout the cam
paign for the dispensary fund. A
tiny girl slipped 10 the Office Satur-
day morning with so cents in an
envelope addressed For the dispen-
sary babies from Q little friend" and