Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
LITTLE SUFFERERS
AT ST. CHRISTOPHER s
BRAVE AND CHERRY
Hospital in Northeast Sec
ton the Daily Scene of
Hopeful Struggle Against
Diseases of Children.

| Just at present st. Christopher Hos
! pital, Lawrence and Huntingdon streets,
has Il little patients.
Opportunity to study child life is ever
present to the visitor at St. Christophers.
Teddy Roosevelt viii not greet him at the
door, but Teddy Roosevelt Wick will well
come him on the roof garden. This little
boy. like Miss Jeffurds. head nurse, wishes
to interest every one in the work of the
hospital, and consequently he will talk
for a half hour without q complaint and
smile during waking and sleeping hours.
1t Is the build Of a prizehghter in em-
bryo that Teddy carries when he Is
stretched in bed. He has hip disease.
From his waist up he is perfect. Miss
Jctfords does not think that Teddy will
ever be far-famed as an athlete. but
eventually he may walk without a false
step and make name for himself.
In the cot next to Teddy on the roof
garden Is Isabella Lawson, 6 years old.
a sufferer from infantile paralysis. She
is walking today, but it is with the
hes.tating steps of old woman or child
Just learning to walk. The fact is she Is
just learning over how to walk. She is
confident, and when she falls she smiles
in an apologize manner She is the mes
seuger and crrand girl for Teddy Roose-
welt Wick. She is about as speedy as
the average messenger boy, but she is
much more certain of results.
Ida Rudolph. . years old is also on the
roof. Size has been there two months,
10 tFr1s4 ~. Ngr
tors see her every day. There Is some
thing wrong with Ida because she won't
grow strung. The doctors have lot or
names for her complaint.
Then there is Beatrice, III years old,
Beatrice is a favorite, but the nurses
have forgotten her last name She VIII
be operated upon tomorrow or the day
after by Or. L. c. Alexander. There is
tubercuar condition of her spine ana one
of her legs. Miss Beatrice has not
guessed that an operation is imminent,
So she has not become hysterical as
some of her older sisters might. When
she isn't sleeping she is sucking her Ielt
thumb. 1t is always the left one
Fransico Disco has spent six OF his
ten Years in the hospital. AS an old resi-
dent he SAYS that he prefers the roof
garden to ward There is more air.
and then he can hear all the street noises.
He can tell just what Is happening py
,s ,r5ge Of tha prices of tomatoes,
,,a"rcs md such staples by the shouts
80 49,, ,.o,Gnrs Fransico. who is one of
.i,o nIa,s, natients, will never push
t1,c; or sling a bale hook on the wharf.
He may be made for better things and
t'g az oaSiar .,'.', lob He has a hip disease
TIe,ar tIorkins g wears old had a fall.
win disease and tuborcular bones fol-
Iva :he has been in many hospitals.
sre sr,f,as when she does not feel pain,
W., ebo docs she holds the hand OF
ON. ~ .he nurses or bears the pain alone.
rrha nrrses saw that children have more
conraqn tban most grown people they
b,,.o met
TlororSca Wallace has started into train
too, tEa+ he NAV reach the roof garden.
ITs vas oncrated on for appendicitis FIVE
da,s ngo For three days Miss JEFF ords
1900 fnr her natient, but now since
C,,aro,,ra is aIways hungry there must be
Ltra f,, Tfr7
-, 49,, e,rricar. ward lies Billy Garnett.
o ,.o,r, ~ ,rho inv hoy who is the
,,st - tLs ttr1a in a sleep or stupor.
',,,sy.5 ,be ratb of horse on January
o! r,d ,,.,s Irorlsed down H. was
-, "tN -, 80 r,,rriad "a tbe hnspital.
-, . ~, rra musician who re-