Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
LITTLE SUFFERERS
AT ST. CHRISTOPHER s
BRAVE AND CHEEKY
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 AZ little patients.
/ Opportunity to study child life is ever
present to the visitor at st. Christopher's
/ Teddy Roosevelt will not greet him at the
/ door, but Teddy Roosevelt Wick will wei
( come him on the roof garden. This little
boy. like Miss Jcffords, head nurse, wishes
to- interest every one in the work of the
hospital and consequently he will talk
for y half hour without a complaint and
smile during waking and sleeping hours.
It is the build of prizefghter in en-
byo that Teddy carries When he is
stretched in bed. He has hip disease.
From his waist up he is perfect. Miss
JeTords does not think that Teddy will
ever be far-famed as an athlete, but
eventually he may walk without false
step and make name for himself.
in the cot next to Teddy on the roof
garden is Isabella Lawson, years old.
a sufferer from infantile paralysis She
is walking today, but it is with the
hesitatins 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
senger and errand 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 She has been there two months,
but shows little Improvement The doc
tors see her every day. There Is some
thing wrong with Ida because she won I
grow strong The doctors have a lot OF
names for her complaint
Then there is Beatrice, H.. years old
Beatrice is a favorte. but the nurses
have forgotten her last name. She Will
be operated upon tomorrow or the daE
after By Dr. f. G. Alexander. There is
tubercular 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 left
thumb 1t is always the left one.
Frausico Disco has spent six OF MS
ten wears in the hospital. As an old resi-
dent he says that he prefers the rooI
garden to a ward. There Is more ar
and then he can hear all the street noises.
He can tell Just what is happening pE
the cries of the newsboys and he also
is a Judge of the prices of tomatoes
reaches and such staples by the SHOUTS
of the vendors FTansico, VINO Il one Oh
the oldest patients. vii! never push
truck or sling a bale hook on the wharf.
He may be made for better things ana
an easier Job He has a hip disease.
Helen Horkins, years old, had a fall.
Hin disease and tubcrCular bones fol-
lowed She has been in many hospitals
she smiles when she does not feel pain.
v-har she does she holds the hand or
one Of the nurses or bears the pain alone
The nurses say that children have more
courage than most grown people they
have met.
Clarence Wallace has started into train
ing that he may reach the roof garden
He was operated on for appendicitis f1ve
days ago For three days Miss Jeffords
feared for her patient, but now since
Clarence is always hungry there must be
hope for him.
In the surgical ward lies Billy Garnett
2 years old The tiny boy, who is the
most If the time in a sleep or stupOr
crossed the path Of a horse, on January
-. and was knocked down. He was
picked uu and hurried 20 the hospital.
Every one but the physician who re-
Caival him said that the child was dead.
He is alive. but that is all.
TIN. featherweiEht Of the hospital Is
a-iav old baby girl. She is of Italian
rsr.rtaue. and at noon Wednesday
weighed exactly two pounds six and one
ralr ounces She will live probably,
under hospital care. but if she had been
left with her mother she would have
uarishel.