The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-11

treasurer: Mrs Thomas Parke. Mrs. Hill Ferguson. Mrs. Felton Wimberly, Mrs. Hale Tarrant. Mrs. George Clark, Mrs Ralph Barrow
 The trustees are J. w. Mcqueen, chair man, ]. w. Donnelly, K. NJ. Tutwiler, ". c. Phillips Stanley Woodward.
 Miss Charlotte Perkins is hospital su- perintendent
 The following letter soliciting subscrip- tions has been sent out:
 SUBSCRIPTIONS ASKED
 October 8. 19l7 Dear Friend: Is there anything that comes closer to your heart than little children. sick and helpless?
 Do you really want to help make them well?
 This is our appeal to save babies and children who cannot save themselves. Have you ever been In a children's hospital? Have you ever seen long rows of little white beds filled with wide-eyed, pale-faced children, children whose bodies were deformed into ugly shapes, or wasted by disease, perhaps prevent able disease, too?
 Have you ever seen tiny cribs holding babies, sick babies, with faces like lit tie old men and women and bodies shriv- eled and worn as though never having been nourished?
 HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT? Have you ever thought that these lit- tie ones were children with bodies and souls demanding love and care and nour- ishing food and medicine when i'll, just exactly as your children and the chill dren you know demand? Have you ever thought of these things, you who are surely the friend of little children? We feel you must have.
 Do you know that in Birmingham there is just such a place? There is children's hospital, where children only between the ages of infancy and 14 years are admitted. Our doctors are special ists in childrens diseases; our nurses have been specially trained for work with little ones.
 Mothers and fathers bring their chll- dren to us i'll with every kind of medical and surgical disease, i'll with contagious diseases. too--mea sles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria-to be isolated in a separate building and treated in the most scientific manner.
 BUT THAT ISN'T ALL
 Treatment does not stop when the children are well and go home. For the nurses go with them to advise and teach the parents the fundamentals of health, cleanliness of body, of food, and shell ter and the ways to prevent sickness
 '"The money required to meet the ever
  been raised previously by the women If Birmingham, chiefly through the doll bazar, given annually. representing months of untiring strength and labor.
 DOLL BAZAAR ABANDONED
 Our country is at war. The women of every section have been called on to do their bit in the armies of the Red Cross and Navy league. Therefore, the women of the hospital have decided to give up the doll bazar for this year. But the work with our sick children can-. not cease, for todays children must be made well and strong Tor the battles of tomorrow. The hospital has a bed ca pacity of 30; its doors are open to all white children, all creeds, from every section of the city and county. It hopes before long to annex a colored ward and so more faithfully serve the south's lt- tie ones.
 Tt cordially invites the earnest ro- operation of all children's agencies throughout the state and all doctors and nurses who come in touch with sick children. Send them to us. Our wards are yours.
 "Moreover, 1t hegs your interest and your support. No contribution Is too small to aid in carrying on this noble work
 WILL YOU HELP?
 twill you not help us, you who are the mothers and fathers of children, you whose little ones have been called into that garden where sickness cannot be, you who have not been privileged to serve children of your own? You know the great joy of service, and the radi- ance that comes into your own life from giving to this far-reaching work, dupli- cated by no other institution in the state, if you could but hear the feverish cry of the sick babies and children saying so plainly, Help us. or we cannot live our lives are precious, and your money will save us now Faithfully yours THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
 MRS. CRAWFORD JOHNSTON,
 President. Please send your contribution of cash, check or money order to Mrs. Walter lC Phillips, treasurer