The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-26
FORTY LITTLE GIRLS ARE
At CLARKE COUNTY HOME
Girls Auxiliary Hopes to Give Forty
Boys IA Summer Va
cation.
FUNDS NEEDED FOR WORK
Visiting Nurses Select Palc-Faced
Children Who Need Country Life
to Build Up Their Health and
Vitality.

The rudy glow OF health is coming
TO the cheeks OF forty little girls vino
were pale-faced and coiorlcss when
they LETT Richmond juno Is for Long
wood the summer home for children
III CLARKE COUNTY. which is being sup
ported by the Girls Auxiliary OF the In
structive Visiting Nurses Association.
and when the four weeks of the vaca
ton expires and the time comes for
them TO return home the children will
be better. brighter. happier and more
healthful than when they Went away.
or course. IT is costing something TO
keep the children in the country for Il
outing believe that they have already
been fully repaid for their trouble and
expense. AND they are now making
plans TO send forty poor and sickly BOYS
TO the same place as soon as the girls
come home
UNDERTOOK SUMMER
Last year ne Girls Anxiilary Of the
OF Long IA summer home for
the poor and sick children of Rich
mond. While along the same line Of
ways done, IL having for the two years
previous financed Lakeside Sanatoriuu.
for sick babies, II was q far greater
success than anYtiini, of its kind IL had
undertaken before. one hundred aud
three children, chosen by the visiting
no chance TO share All the joys and
benefits OF being in the country. EACH
spent month in Clarke County aud
came home happy. with rosy checks.
and tipping tho scales at an average
gain OF seven. pounds.
'Longwood' was opened during the
hot months. June. July and August, and
the children went UP in. groups OF
thirty-tive. all girls or all boys in each
of-doors all day long and even al night
many of them slept in the open. The
house used as the home at "LonGwood"
Is given by Il young physician. who
started the summer home. but found as
the work grew that he was unable TO
carr on the Gndertaking alone
stefan In giving the house rent free.
aud with the aid and cooperation of
the place amounted TO 81 500. When an
appeal for aid was made the first of
the mouth. enough money was received
20 make possible the opening of the
home. but the POUNDS Of the treasury
arc again practically depleted ana a
continuance of the work. must neces-
COSTS 81. PER CHILD
FOR VACATIONS
When appeals for aid were made in
previous years the response was always
tributions frequently serve to make
some child well ana happy. AS soon
the association is planning 10 send
forty frail and poor boys To the sum
members OF the Instructive Visiting
Nurses Association.
y month vacation at the Su'nmc:
home for forty children costs $500. or
n little more than Sl2 for each child.
The amount seems small indeed when
II Is realized that AN expenditure of
Sl2 may save a human life or serve
TO make strong man or woman who
might be an invalid for the want OF as
Sistancc.
In Richmond. as in other cities. there
are scores OF frail children living day
after day. under the most unwholc
some conditions because their parents
are unable TO provide means 10 fur
nish better environment. II il such chill
dren as these that the association aims
TO help.
y lis, OF the officers Of the Girls
Auxiliary of the Instructive Visiting
Nurses Association follows: MISC
Elizabeth Preston Cooke. president:
Mrs. Frank Palmer Christian. vice
president; Miss Jessie Hazard. CORE
spending secretary; Miss Mary u.
street. trea surcr. 7O3 East Grace street
Miss Street receives all contributions
made 20 the fund for supporting the
summer home.