The Washington times., 1914-08-22
BOB-The Way We Look When W.
Enter the Baby Camp Hospital.

be kept secret. for I wouldn'u have
father know for the world. No mat
ter how hard they try, fathers can't
De mothers, even il mothers can be
fathers. My daddy. with his poor
crushed spine, scarcely able to move
MS hands. did just as much as he
could Tor me. In fact, he did more
because the people out here at camp
said that when came I was just as
clean and neat as q new pin. and
that my little body (what there was
left of iD. had been taken good care
But. You see. there wasn't much of
around. Bottle tree fruit was
mighty scarce, and daddy did not
seem to know where the right kind
grew. He mixed my food for me,
and did just as much as he could,
butt ask you-can a man be ex-
pected to do things that he doesn't
know anything about-most espe-
clally when he can't move out of
bed or scarcely in It. ether
Got Thinner All the Time.
During the months that followed,
Just got thinner and thinner. and by
the time the hot weSNSher came, I
was ready for any old disease that
happened 20 come along and stop
awhile with me. 1 had what most of
the boys out here have U heard the
doctor say these big words). chronic
dysentery from malnutrition. That
means that was mighty uncom-
Portable most of the time, besides
feeling worse than 1 can tell. My
food was no better than no food at
all.
BY the time the Baby Camp Hos
pital was ready to open / was surely
yr Dollx- haA ha
could not take care of me any more
tseeing | was so sick. y'understand,
and not able to help him) and mother
did not have time Hours are pretty
long at stores, and standing up. SO
she told me. kept her from getting
very well.
When l came to the Baby Camp
Hospital I was really on my last
lees. and they were just like tooth
picks,
Although have, as yor can easily
see. become quite large and pr OuC
and Am quite wei. both inside and
out. I think tt4t YOU might do y-oIr
who look more or less like poor Bob
does. If we six-monthers. and
thereabouts. get good start so that
We pick up during the winter. then
we are in fine fettle for that terrible
second summer. when we are getting
our teeth. Grown folks seem to for
get what an awful bother it Is to
get teeth They expect too much of
us babies
Somebody out here said one day
that babies died like flies in the
great big cities. Now there are
so very. very many to care for and
everyone Is so busy there that the
grown folks can't be blamed so
much. But here-there aren't very
many of us: you have the cause.
the name of the place. and every
thing handy think 1t is a per-
feet sin for even one of us to die.
Don't you?
Start Fund In Church.
II you don't want to send to The
Times. just go to church Sunday,
and give there
\ man in this town. Mr.. ,Lans-
burgh, who evidently remembers
that he was baby once and had
to cut teeth, and depend upon other
.olks for everything. has said that
he will start every fund. at every
church. with a subscription OF one
dollar.
So II your church starts a fund.
no matter II just a few cents Is
given. We get one dollar. II all
of the churches even make a pre-
tense at collecting something at
the door for Us. we will be given
several hundred dollars. you see.
This is not foreign mission:
here's your opportunity to do some
good right at your door.