El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-26
Hank, Child of Sunshine
BY +. p. VI.

VTERY few will remember Hank
" He moved in circles. but not
fashionable or successful ones.
The truth is that Hank was worse off
than one of -ha-Eu Emerged. he was
submerged and then had TO crawl
He was four or five years old then,
but he always crawled to the sunshine,
and he had the happiest most per
vading, the tickiingest smile radiating
from his poverty, his rags and his
most wretchedly crippled little BODY
there on the charity room floors
No clamor Of sick babies, no sharp
word from tired out nurses hurrying
by and tripping over his unwieldIy
little person. no irritation of nice folk
who found charity sometimes going at
cross purposes, none Of these frowntng
and untoward happenings ever dimmed
the little scamp's smile.
Always A Problem.
Hank was VeXiug problem rolling
around the floor, always in the way,
never clean, always hungry. uncouth.
unlearned, unframed, a little waste
human. ward of the charity assOcia-
ton. cast off everywhere else because
couth and so in the way.
he was apparently hoDelessly Grip
pied from the waist down. FROM
creeping and stumbling about like a
seal out Of place, he was overgrown
IN the shoulders and chest and had
Dig hands and a great big WObDIy
mead. While his poor little shauks were
withered and useless He DRAGGED I
them around like dried dead twigs.
Hank always smiled.
There was no getting around II,
Hank always smith.
People said perhaps he was half wit /
ted, but there was the smile too bright I
for that He smiled as though ne /
child in town. {
Everybody Helped.
Doctors kind IN
" gave him all they could He had
electric treatments for his legs to try
10 start the life in them again. A kind I
shoemaker made special shoes ana
braces and gave them to him III Paso !
IS always soft hearted toward the SUE
fering Of little folks when their
troubles are known.
But Hank seemed a hopeless case.
He needed all sorts of specfaI treat
ment and special care and special de-
Nelopment and special patience. ana /
mere was no place in FL Paso where
ne could get it No one here could I
DO much for little Hanks BODY or Z
mind except those especially trained
70 attend to such. to cure and helm ana !
tram tram and tend just such little mis- 7
shaped warped, broken, half killed Z
The Good Angel.
bul hank smiled as though life we're !
ssSIS golden Along came a friend
me saw hank Hank smiled IN from ]
the floor where he was wriggIins-
and won a friend His friend ra iI.
sIapned 10 Denver where she had a
rs, interested in hospital for Just
The Denver hospital most kindly and
heLSiIuIIY telegraphed back that Hank
o--o SoIle lhere- So 4 little fund
- - raised, a want lire was put in the
y venus paper and q kind woman who 2
vas travelling that Wav undertool- me !
'eaAy great burden OF gettiDa- him
y ,-,i,.I saIeiy; Tor Hank having been
- aIsz sa from babyhood. not yet hav-
hs enurely left that estate was haTn- I
ess In everything but his smile AZ J
.ol 70 Denver and the ChildrenIs Hos (
'IlaI there put him on his feet. made
III almost whole boy out Of him.
Now Denver sends back IN bis r,t I
$50 friend a big blue poster. and II !
mere isn't the breathing image or Z
.eIIA- only Dig, handsome. sturdy. /
tanding up as straight as anybodv-
ming the same smile only more
rutn 10 Il It does not twist the heart
Q Ior there is more substance Tor
milling back OF it ]
The poor legs are in bracae. .sr5 +bs,- {
re thIn- II is true. but thew are nor
o awfully, so pitifurv E-ithere5 aDd
ley mold the broad shoulders and bfg
e "a up straight and steadily. !
Under the smiling picture is ma Y
ascot phrase, Happy Hank" and the ]
The Children's hospital. with IT /
90 me On my AeeL
CapitnIizfaE a Smile. :
me poster is everywhere fn Uervar /
the hotels. railway stations stores G
ma clubs That grin made in n Paso I
trying. to earn s25O.O0O for the Den =
4 n nospiJai which helps children from Z
y over this west and southwest
The hospital has never had anv nav :
ON II Paso for Hank The original :
md OF 800 raised privately for the .
ne o. the smile paid his slight ex-
anSe IN getting to Denver ana rof4 Z y
II him few weeks there. a
since then he has been treated en-
rely for the love of humanity ana s
: smile and for the hope and help I
Therefore FL Paso might very wen
no some money 10 help. the hospital E
furnish new bed and appliances v
y some other little storm beaten I q
aft Ike Hank. a human lffe maj [ g.
ight easily have become a bit Of hu- t