Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-06-17
HEALTH EXHIBIT
MARKED SUCCESS
Festival Hall and Auditorium
~. Filled to Capacity
Doctors Examine 1876 Children--Find SO
Normal, and Deficiencies in Others Are
of Minor Nature.

Of Minor Nature.
Success beyond all hope or expectation
attended the child iwclfare exhibit. which
closed with an entertainment Tuesday
in the Auditorium having been given
by the manager, Il. j. Fenton, when he
saw the tremendous crowd which
thronged to Festival hall in the after
noon. The afternoon program also was
presented in the Auditorium, every seat
Of which was occupied. and large num-
berS of persons stood.
Festival hall was decorated attractive
ly with pink and white streamers from
the lights in the ceiling to the railing of
the balcony. There also were many flag
shields about the hall. The stage was
arranged in the center Of Festival hall.
The baby clinic. conducted in the
supervision of Miss Elizabeth Harvey,
superintendent of the Brattleboro MI.
tual Aid association, was well patron.
lied, 126 babies being measured, weighed
and examined during the day. OF that
number IS were found to be normal and
the others had only small defects. The
prize for the heaviest baby up to two
years of age, a coat and bonnet, was
awarded to John Roswell Miles of So
Maple street, who measured 33 Sd inches
and weighed 33 pounds. Miss Harvey
expresses her appreciation of the work
done by the physicians of the town and
by DR.. Armasse, superintendent of the
Children's hospital at Denver. Col. who
assisted and gave helpful advice to the
mothers. The Red Cross motor corps
the Roberts Auto Co. and private citi-
zene of the town rendered valuable as
sistancc in bringing children from the
Dummerstqn and Marlboro schools,
where Miss Harvey has conducted school
inspection the past two years and their
assistance was heartily appreciated.
There were booths and tables for the
sale Of soft drinks. ice-cream, home
cooked food. homemade candy and grabs,
which We're conducted by Dennis Re
club, the parochial school and the Brat
tlcboro Business and Professional Wom-
ems club. and in the case of at least q
part of these sales the entire proceeds
went to help dcfray the expenses of the
exhibit. There also were tables of health
exhibits, which included hospital and
surgical supplies. books. posters, etc, as
well as n display of work done ut the
Austinc Institution, and some CONNER
cial exhibits.
Because of the unwilingness of the
health clown from New York to perform,
either on the stage in Festival hall or
the Auditorium, because he was not
suited with the stage arrangements, this
part of the program was carried out in
the school building in West Brattleboro
at l o'clock and in the high school build
ing at o'clock. Because of lack of
space in the school many children were
disappointed not to be able to see his
performance.
The rest of the program of the after
noon, which consisted of exercises, songs.
dances, drills. ETC.. by children of the
grades, the Parochial school and the
kindergarten gave much pleasure to the
children and grown-ups who were able
10 secure place of vantage in the Au-
ditorium. In addition to vocal and in
sti umcntal music. an exercise and mo-
ZION pictures Frank o. Krcager of
Springfield, Mass. spoke on the work
of the Junior Achievement League, IN
the evening.
Among the features of the exhibit
which attracted attention on the streets.
was the appearance on the back of II
white horse of Dorothy Clapp. as the
health crusader, who rode about the
streets at intervals throughout the day.
An automobile decorated prettily with
American flags carried the health fairy.
Martha Virginia George through various
sections of the town in the early after
noGn.
Pictures of the exhibits were made by
Benjamin A. Grown.
The success of the welfare exhibit is
due to the untiring efforts of Mrs. Lucy
Wells Lazell, school nurse. who launched
the project and who had the general
oversight enlisting the cooperation of
the Bratteboro schools Mutual Aid as
"cciation and other organizations and
business houses.