Evening journal., 1922-09-26
Who ARE CITY'S
LUCKIEST TOTS?
Prizes To Be Awarded to
Nine on Homeopathic
Hospitals Baby Day
$500 BORN THERE
IN "a YEARS

Who Is the luckiest baby in VIII
mington?
In fact. who are the nine quckiest
The answer TO these interesting
! questions will be furnished, It was
announced to day. when the prizes
are distributed on Baby Day. We'd
nesday, October 4, when all of the
babies born in the Homeopathic Hos
pital during the last three years will
be modified in an open air recep-
ton and reunion. When the tots
have all turned in their Visiting
cards. giving their names and years
OF birth. there will be a drawing of
prizes, three each for 1920, 1921
and 1922.
The Baby Day demonstration
which will precede the opening of
the seven days intensive campaign
to raise s25O.OOO for the Homeopa-
thic Hospital. will be held in a CEN
trally located public place to be an
nounced within day or two. Mayor
Harvey has been asked TO be the
official welcomer to these youngest
WilmingtoniaDs and a prominent
AAAAARAHAAd Ottng EPtkA4AA1Af HAS
been invited TO help judge the babies
on looks. However, no attempt viii
be made in the limited time-from
to 4.30 o'clock on October to
pick the best-looking or healthiest
Possibly nine mothers would agree
that the judges were right, but the
other 761 mothers would never be
convinced. So drawing of the name
cards will settle these matters on a
basis of luck and probably the
babies will be satisfied.
There will be interesting open air
stunts TO liven up the Baby Day
gathering. A committee of young
women who aided affairs arranged
for the Homeopathic Hospital
have taken charge of the entertain
ment and of providing the prizes.
A special class for twins is being
worked out. There were five sets of
twins born at this hospital this year.
The committee arranging the |
Baby Day reception is seeking the |
oldest baby" born in the Homeo- |
pathic Hospital. OF course. the old
est isn't more than thsrty-two years
old. 1t had been planned originally /
TO invite all the children born at |
this hospital for the past six or
eight years, but examination Of the
hospital records revealed that the
number would be too great to per
nit of a real sociable party. AS It
IS, no babies have been born In
he maternity department of the
popular hospital on Van Buren,
street since January /, 1920.
There have been $500 babies
born in the Homeopathic Hospital
since it was opened to the public in
1888. From two infants born the
first year the number grew to al
most 800 in 1920. With private
rooms, semi-prlvate ward. ward and
,olored ward with accommodations
'or twenty-seven, the homeopathic
Hospitals maternity department
work has been popular and sought
" the Delaware mothers in in
reasing numbers. In July the Hos
'ita's maternity department scored
is high mark for a single twenty
our hour period when It assisted
even babies into this world.
Miss Estelle Washington. super
isor of nurses in the maternity de-
artment, who has a speaking ac-
uaintance with more new Whining
on babies than any other person,
ill be at the Baby Day celebration
nd greet a lot Of her young friends {
nd their mothers. Miss Washing y
IN and five nurses are always on a
uty on the maternity department a
Dor, which accounts for the popu-
rity of the Homeopathic Hospital !.
this particular line. Invitations y
n the Baby Day reception are be- :
Il prepared and will be sent to the Z
lbies and their mothers within a
~ or two.