Evening star., 1922-08-25
Girls and Their Interests
CONDUCTED BY HELEN H. FETTER.

storehouse beds and equipment, cloth
ing. soap, milk and other necessary
supplies were secured The juniors
furnished funds from their own treas
ury to purchase a dynamo and aux
iliary machines to furnish light and
water.
Today there are several hundred
small patients at this sanatorium. and
just this week an installment of Won
derfully dainty handiwork done by
the little bedridden girls of twelve
to fifteen years was received by Miss
Dorothea Campbell of the Junior Red
Cross headquarters in Washington.
There are now dormitories. class
rooms and verandas filled with con-
tented, well-cared-for youngsters, who
daily grow roster and happier in sun
shine and fresh air under the minis
trations of a competent medical staff.
They have many occupations. includ-
ing their studies. the making of toys.
basketry work. all kinds of knitting,
crocheting and embroidery work.
These children seem to thrive Won
derfully in this home overlooking the
blue waters of the Black sea.
An idea of the eagerness of these
little girls and boys to hear about
their American sisters and brothers
is given in letter from Miss Agnes
Won kurowsky. American Red Cross
nurse at the sanatorium. written to
Miss Hay of the nurses bureau in
Washington. She says:
This is an ideal place. for making
over undernourished. sickly children
into fat brown imps who laugh and
play all day. We have about 800 here
for the summer colonies, and l be-
licve more are expected. l stay on
the beach with them all the forenoon
while they are taking sun baths. and
teach them American games, stunts
and tricks. During the late afternoon
1 try to amuse the children of the
veranda, Is they are called. the poor
children who suffer from advanced
cases of tubercular bone or gland
and who are practically immobilized.
Poor little kiddies. There seems
so little that one can do to make their
lot easier. and yet they are so appre-
ciative of that little. A few weeks
ago l received some albums made by
the school children of America, and
Immediately l rushed to the veranda
with them. And such interest as they
displayed in even the picture post
cards of obscure country towns in
America. But the best find of all was
the lovely paper dolls. with costumes
that changed and hats to be put on
and off. and had the pleasure of in
itiating them into the mysteries
quite a story was woven around
one pretty little lady who had many
handsome costumes and who ap-
parently had a romance with an Off
Ger paper doll. The obs and abs
from the row Of beds as she was held
up for inspection after each change
and the delightful anticipation of
what would come next in her life his
tory! or course the girls were the
interested audience, as the boys pre-
ferred the pictures of rabbits and
queer dogs.
"The questions they ask me about
America! How I wish had soua
photographs of our big cities to show
them: l can just imagine the light
OF interest in their eyes over the New
YORK skyscrapers or the White House
and Monument in Washington"
How many growntup girls still
nave books of their childhood's paper
dolls; and think of the thousands of
post cards thrown in the waste paper
baskets all over the country. wouldn't
some Of those bed-ridden little girls
OF Tekir Ghiel be almost delirious
with delight to receive them?