Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-05-15
WILL SELL BELLS FRIDAY
fOR HOPELESS or STATE
PROMINENT Richmond Women Ia
rAppcal Tag Day for Home
for InCurablcS
HOPE TO ERECT ADDITION
Building Program Calls for Outlay
OF St0,0o0, While $50. 900 al
Year is Required To Maintain the
Institution

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Richmond people are always
to Ole Virginia Homo for incurabl,.
hecausc IT makes so wiue an appeal
anutaiso owing 10 tho sadness OF the
fate. Of those who because they can
mot hope To recover. nnd a haven
of refuEv within its hoSpitahle walls.
Thcd annual Bell Day wll l." held
next Friday when tags in the shape
streets !nr Whatever generous
pubic cares to give
Becausc II is hoped To hu.li an
addition To tho home on West Broad
street. Mrs 4. Aubrey Young. chair
letter 10 number OF prominent
citiz"ns asking them to deposit
checks in tho boxes Friday and stat
ing that each contribution received
In thiS form VIII he Acknowledged
promptly. The addition to the
building will Coe; $4,000 and the
annual cost Of maintenance is
S2o;eoo. thus masking tremendous
T CALI on the treasury and also on
the .1ublic, as the institution - praC-
tically supported by voluntary con-
tributions given At Eel Day and Do
nation Day and also through special
entertainments and gifts.
6 Was Chartered in ISai.
The Home for Incurahics received
n charter from tho Virginia Lrgis
1aturc in 1884 and its existence il
Grccnhow, who wae so Impressed by
the Fnumbcr OF chronic eases IN thu
State who had not tho means 20 pro-
vide for themselves proper car" that
ShcL founded the institution which
has proved blessing 10 hundreds
of sufferers. The state gives Il small
annual appropriation and the cit!
even smaller amount. Will" con
trihutions OF various sizes come from
other Virginia cities having patients
a; the home. iSut by FAR the great
est proportion or the funds CON"
from Richmond. as also do tho INA
1ority of patients.
There arc thirty-flvc mon ana
women receiving care and treatment
there now: the number OF those ear |
noStiy wishing to enter is "v"n
greater. ana their outrcatics to h"
,akcn in are 50 appealing that II |
seems positively cruel to turn them |
away. one OF these patients has /
been there more than twenty years |
and several for NOR" than decade |
and in that long period the only |
cost 20 the afflicted Ones has boon |
the tnitial payment Of 500, the in
rtitutiou having provided food, room.
clothing and medical attention.
\ little NOR" than year ago
to the home BY Miss Margaret Ers
kline Miller, who IN war days. took
the. course In occupational thcrapy.
When Uncle Sam dismissed hcr She
devoted NtT training Ia lt'St SUI
fererS in her own city and has
taugh; them Ia make beautiful rag
rugs rata baskets or all kinds the
Gaming .. chairs and Il number %
other useful articles which find /
ready market Aftcr dcductiNr IN"
cost Of materials the proceeds are
given TO the workers with which to
huyt additional comforts
Is Iinrry Family Circle.
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teaching so faithfully is thai ii iyivrS |
employment to hands which hereto
fore were idle and 10 minds an too
ready to dwell on misfortune. and .
brought about there has been a de
cided Improvement in TIA" general .
health OF the patients so readily /
does the mind react on the body It'll
Is happy family circle there nov
regardless Of the fact that tho ma
iority are wyll nigh h.lplcss but .
AL receive adequate care and attcu- /
ton, the only trouble bcinE that no I
more, at present can ho accommo- .
dated.
Mrs william ". HaDliston is prc+i-
dent OF the Institution and tho other |
officers are Mrs Young vicc-p-cs.-
secretary; Mrs. Alfred Cary. CORE /
spording secretary. and Mrs. Frank |
Epps. treasurer. Members oi the /
hoard are Mcsdamcs John y. Coke. /
s. H. Bcmiss, j. X Bowman. W. W. 1
DUN. samuel punStan, Wcstmorr- .
\. Grconwald ii''.yard hamilton.
j. fenna FIo"a fcMt W John .
Fton, John La,nam, II \ MgGqrIy |.
p PAU " Ho6er, f.cgrnm. l. IN r.
Price J NJ. Rp,hert II " Houu,rco.
T. "a. Smyt.s \. / straus Iohu
TcGfcy ! II TE"vllian. : J. Wnd
ain, Misses Mary Thomas Gab-jol.t !
T. l-fr.