Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-24
BAC0NS CONE To
CLAIM DAUGHTER
Little Grace Illiff Leaves
With Foster Parents for
Chicago Home.
CURE NOT PERFECTED
DIR. \. {. Bacon Says He Would Not
Have Asked Neither to Make Sac
rifice II Chiid's Life Was Not
u Danger.
CURE NOT PERFECTED

| That the case of little Grace lii.
the 6-year-old Pine Bluff girl Who
swallowed concentrated lyc ar,l TO"
months lowered between life ane
death, was the only one of it's kind
known to medical science and that a
congress Of surgeons declared tie
treatment that has restored to the
child the use of her tir at the most
wonderful known, were statements
made here yesterday by DR.. Asa C.
Bacon, superintendent of the pr IS
byterian hospital, where little Grace
was sent through the geEeros1:v of
Pine loluff people.
DR.. and Mrs. Bacon came TO taa ely
to claim Grace as their adopted
daughter, departing with the chic!
yesterday afternoon for visits to Lit
tie Rock and Hot Springs before re-
turning to their Chicago come. Dur
ing their stay in the city, DR.. and Mrs
Bacon we're entertained by Miss jul 4
Houston. secretary Ct the ASS riated
Charities, and her mother, Mrs. g. B.
Houston. They met Graces parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Illiff, at the
Associated Charities office III the
morning and called upon them ut
their home later in the day.
eff l did not know that Graces flu
tu1e welfare, her life depended ulor
her continuing to receive the trc at
ment, | would have backed down
rather than ask Mrs. Illiff to make
the great sacrifice she has SO altru S.
tically achieved. / would not Fave
suggested it, though we all love Grace
as our own" said DR.. Bacon i'll dis
cussing his adoption of Grace
Treatment Must Continue.
He said to complete the cure il will
be necessary for Grace to receive tho
treatment twice a month for several
years. Both Dr. and Mrs. BacoG as
surcd Mr.. and Mrs. Illiff that Grace
should retain her own name, adIine
that of her foster parents: that the
child's progress and that when erase
could read and write she shoulI her
self communicate regularly with Der
Parents here Mr. and Mrs. Ill! i We're
invited to visit the Bacon home
Whenever they desired.
Grace spent yesterday with her
parents, and could not undels anil
the grief of her parents when part
ing time came. Mrs. Tiff vas
strengthened through the orlea: by
the knowledge that she was doing the
best possible thing for her beloved
ella, and the realizat'o:, that she had
consigned her infant to kindly, cul-
tured people who love Grace as tlleil
own.
Dr.. and Mrs. Bacon visite1 the
Davis hospital to meet the friends
there of Grace, and called also uroi
DR.. B. D. Luck, who first treated the
infant. eff it hadn't been for You
Dir. Luck" said the susEed
surgeon, there would have been &c
Grace now" DR.. Bacon sad Dir
Luck's prompt and proper trea:lnen
here saved Grace's life. 1t was Di
Luck who first suggested placing he
child under the care of Dr. Sippy, the
famous Chicago specialist, the f'ran
cial problem being solved by NE
pee pic of Pine Bluff acting on Sug'
gestion of Rabbi Joseph Jasin.
The Successful Treatment.
Or. Bacon detailed the treatmen
that has wrought an almost complete
cure. He said the first operation re
ouired nearly a day of the time o
DR.. Sippy, whose practice yields hin
an income of from $4,000 to $loo,oV'
per annum. A silk thread was mrs