The Washington herald., 1913-08-03
Work of Summer Outings Committee for
Sick Babies Makes Wonderful Appeal
Wouldn't 1t Be a Splendid Thing to Extend the
4 Two Months of This Noble Rescue
Work to a Longer Period?

accommodation of still more little white
beds where those babies, which other
wise have so slim a chance of life. could
| be cared for until they We're quite well
and strong-ready to make the battle fer
| life's happiness and success on at least
| the basis OF health? Wouldn't 1t be ideal
10 replace some of the present makeshifi
equipment with permanent conveniences
| for the better furtherance of the work Of
those who are making so noble a fight
| for the little lives in their keeping?
One day very recently a man just hap
! pened by the baby camp. He accepted
Mrs. Simon's invitatio to see the little
| sick children and all the place boasts
| for their comfort. Silently he watched
| the babies; watched the nurses fitting
| from bed to bed; looked through the
| spotless house with its every room de-
voted for the furtherance of the comfort
I OF the little ones Then he drove away
from the beautiful hill upon the crest
| Of which the farmhouse and the camps
stand, and in day OF two there came to
the Summer Outings Committee a check
for $500. which. it was stipulated, was to
| be used for the Babies Hospital
Fatherhood Worth the Name.
I was not told who the man was. I
was not told whether or not he has
| babies of his own, and I need neither to
know that his fatherhood is worth the
name, because 1t embraces pity for all
little helpless creatures which come into
the world less favored than some others
love for all the world of babies.
We are not all expected to give $500 to
| this very human cause. because the most
of us haven't it to give. But that does
even the pennies count. you know, in the
ultimate n1iShpnanf for
work for the babies.
The city's good deeds born of mans
| sympathy for his less fortunate brother
| are many. Personal philanthropies are
| great and commendable, but of them all
the one carrying the most appealing hu-
man interest is the provision made for
the sick babies OF the poor.
| Next to this work in appeal Is Camp
| Good VIII. which is just a stones throw
| from the Baby Camp. and which is now
| in its eleventh year. To it the Summer
Outings Committee invites children and
| their mothers to whom too pitifully little
| of either rest or happiness ever comes
| for two weeks outing away from the
city's sitting heat.
| Camp Good VIII accommodates 100 in
cluding guests and employees, and it is
| always filled.
Try to get picture of the little
7 IdCts Hdleu DN Ine city ; SWedtDON,
| pathetic in their silent appeal for the
pure air and the freedom of the woods
and fields: coming from homes where
| there is neither time for rest nor for
| training Of the children: where little
| ones are. through sheer necessity, left
| to follow instinct and fight their way to
manhood and womanhood as best they
/ may. and picture to yourself what two
weeks means to them and to their over
Nworked mothers on the lawn of a big
| farmhouse, under the boundless stretch
| Of sky. sleeping in tents through which
! the night air sweeps with its cooling
touch, eating fruit and vegetables fresh
from the camp garden. with plenty of
| fresh sweet milk for the children, and
! plenty of savory food for all the dozens
who are week after week guests through
! the summer of the Summer Outings
Committee at Camp Good Will.
| Employees of the camp. working here
| and there in the gardens and fields,
watch the children so that their mothers
may feel no worry when they go on
long tramps, dip in the swimming pool.
| or wander afield.
Wonderful sight.
| It is A wonderful sight to watch them.
Almost as good as hearing Mrs. Simon
| telling you of the Improvement in the
| consSition of each little baby at the Baby
| Camp and Fresh Air Hospital. as one
makes the rounds of the little beds with
| her.
| If you have already given your time
or your money to the furtherance of the
work of either camp don't miss the
| chance afforded you to go in person and
see the splendid work in which you
are helping.
And il you are one of those women
who thinks she is a mother because she
is devoted to her own little family. and
gives no thought to aught beside. I beg
of you. make a trip to the Baby Camp.
not for the sake of the babies there.
but that you may see something of the
work of the women and men who know
the difference between maternal and pa
ternal instinct and real fatherhood and
motherhood.
For II you give not penny to the
extension of the work for babies who