Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-13
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Babies Hospital Interests Many Persons as the
Summer Advances-Nancy Wynne Talks
of Number of Things

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nave any-babies, mean, not minds) the
- of last summer in the infantile
n.ralysis which was a horrible menace
IN through the warm weather.
great deal was done last year to aid
,ne various hospitals and 1t is to be
soned that our thoughts for the soldiers
snd sailors will not prevent the lambs
a. the flock from being cared for also.
Tho babies have a firm friend in Mrs.
,ohrs Hopkins, for she ha given the
,,so of her hous- at 1903 Walnut ttreet
-. a bea1r. 7rters for a summer cam
,o,en TO raise funds and obtain workers,
,yho meet there once or twice a week
,hrouehout the summer and sew for the
v,dd,es in hospital at Llanerch.
Nrs Billie Warden is oft~n Z" be found
..,r,ns at the Hopkins's house on Tues
hsv mornings and a number of the other
u,omen on the committee are devoted
vorkers on little GENTS for the babies.
Certainly some Of the most prominent
rbvsiciar in this home town physi'
s,sns" are on the board of advisory and
.,,ive managers as we'll as officers. DR..
CHARLES Fife is president Doctor lie Bou-
,u1ier. first vice president Mr.. Howard
Ioeb second vice president; DR.. Howard
Hill. secretary; DIR. John Sinclair, treas.
urer; Stevens Heckscher, counselor; Sid
ney Davidson, financial secretary ana
Miss Rene Fox, superintendent.
The advisory managers include Drs.
Radcliffe Cheston, Lincoln Furbush, Ed
uin F,ldon Graham, j. p. Grocer Griffith,
Charles Hatfield Edward Hodge, Jr., H.
VA New.
maver. James p. Nichol, Louis Starr. AL
fred Stengel and c. Y. White.
Among the active managers are Drs.
william Bradley, Ward Brinton, ]. B.
Carnett, Charles Fife Alfred Hand, Jr.,
Charles Judson, Theodore lie Boutiller,
Joseph s. Neff. Arthur Newin, who is
now in France with Base Hospital No.
10; David Riesrnan, John Sinclair, James
Talley, Mrs. Charles +. Jenkins, Mrs.
Henry Pepper Vaux, Howard Loeb, John
McIlhenny, II. X. Mulford, Fred Rake.
straw and Samuel Rea.
On the womens committee are Mrs.
Craig Biddle, Mrs. Ben Chew Mrs.
Charles Jenkins, Mrs. w. W. Montgom-
cry Jr., Mrs. William Gray Warden, Jr,
Miss Minnie Watmough, Mrs. E. Shipper
WUllnB, hTS. Adult NOOu anu NllS
Eenry Pepper Vaux is chairman.
rhe report for the hospital for last
year states that 1904 babies were treated
there during the year with a death rate of
less than pr cent. Only thirty-fve can
be accommodated al one time. The hospi
tal does a wonderful dispensary or out
patient work. 1t includes prenatal,
prOphylactic and sick baby care and all
patients are visited at their homes by
competent nurses.
Although the accommodations at G09
Addison street, which is a small alley
be- cen Pine and Lombard streets, are
In every way inadequate the situation in
congested district of the city is wonder.
full as large majority of the patients
come from the Immediate neighborhood.
The board of managers" the ann I
report tells u.s." has been making a thor
ough survey in this locality before dec.
irT upon permanent site on which to
erect the memorial buildi: z for which the
money has been given them"
IN 0LD family servants are joys in more
" ways than one, aren't they? Old Tom
was given to shopping" and when Mrs.
@ left with the children for the shore
old Tom thought it the psychological mo-
ment to get him to "de garret up yondah"
and root, a tEin- he had wanted to do
incidentally for many long time.
Papa @ was IN his study deep in
Chaucer and did not hear old Toms
stealthy tread up the three flights OF
etail to the garret. There were fascnat-
Ing bundles up there, some tied with cord
tN{r, -. Ill
ing deliciously of moth balls-delicous
That is to those of US who like the smell
OF tar and camphor combined
Well, to return to old Tom, he eau
uously felt many of these strange pack
ages wondering what was inside, until
MS eye caught sight of a fiat, round some
mink enveloped in bown paper.
he leaned far over a steamer trunk
nearly dislocating a knee joint in Sc
doing and grasped firmly the small. fiat
package in which. let me whisper it, was
discarded opera hat belonging TO Papa
In ". Now old Tom had never seen an
opera hat either lying dormant or in ac
tive ser
With what seemed the slightest pre-
sure OF his hand there was the most deaf
ehlng report Like that of a .22.calibeI
shot out at him, suddenly becoming
/. hideous black monster where before Il
mad been calm and placid Gat package
Old Tom made a flying leap for The
uoor' knocking ov az old quite and q
ngh chair in so doing. Down the threC
nights OF stairs and into the kitchen h'
ed painting breath his eyes showing
huge and white and his fringe Of fuzzy
mar standr- right up on his head.
In the meantime, imagine Papa o.
sensations, seated quietly in his room
reading his beloved poet Suddenly from
ABOVE an unearthly noise and ther
uump thud, bang plump. down the stairs
ana past his door flyin r Ire.
H Deed and 1 doan know whut 1t wuz
Mistah O." said he. but Tom doan'
no no mo- lookin' round dat attic" and
neither for ten-dollar BIZ nor the smel
OF fried chicken could Tom be tempted
h.