Life — February 21, 1907 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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T.LOUIS SPECIAL Each Tuesday and Friday from St. Louis, south- bound. Each Wednesday and Saturday from Mexico City, north-bound, Via the Iron Mountain Route, the Texas & Pacific Railway, the International & Great Northern Railroad, and the National Lines of Mexico, Through drawing room sleeping cars from Chicago each Monday and Thursday evening, via the Wabash Railroad, to St. Louis, ‘Announcement of the completion of the entire new equipment de luxe prior to the inaugural date is confirmed by the Pullman Company. Brochures of the train, for complimentary distribu~ tion, are now in the hands of Mr. H.C. Townsend, Generai Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo., representing the Gould lines, and Mr. W. F. Paton, 11 Broadway New York, representing the National lines. Mailed requests will receive their immediate attention. 30 TOURS EUROPE $270 up North Cape, Round World, Japan, ete. FRANK C. CLARK, 96 BROADWAY, N. ¥. CITY A bottle of Evans’ Ale, a good chop or steak, a good friend, a good cigar and life is all pleasure | fit to be remembered that the work but if anything ails the child it is apt to get wiser attention in town. A perfectly sound child usu- ally does well in the country; a child that needs ial care not so well, and in maintaining a ho: ital for children, baLies or others, in town, it is done for th country as well; for when a country child really must have expert medical or surgical care, apt, if it is lucky enough, to come to town to . Moreover, hospitals not only save life, but they add to knowledge. Babies’ hospitals not only save alive babies that would die, and make sound and useful babies out of sick ones, but they train doc- tors and nurses and keep adding to the mass of recorded knowledge. If, of all the babies that are born, three live now where two lived fifty years ago, it is because mothers get better advice, be- cause babies in extremity are looked after and saved, hecause doctors know more about raising them than they did, and because more babies are enabled to profit by what the doctors know. I never willingly read any stories in which chil- dren come to grief. I seldom get beyond the headlines of the newspaper stories in which chil- dren are run over by the strect-cars or maltreated by cruel parents, When I see a story like that I skip over to the stocks, or to politics, or to the murders, or the railroad accidents, or the inter- national marriage record. I can endure the suffer- ings of grown-up people in moderation, but I am very loath to harrow up my soul reading about the sufferings of children unless there is some possibility of helping them. The only newspaper stories that I really like about calamities that be- fall babies are those where the baby drops out of the seventh-story window of a tenement-house and hits a lot of clothes-lines coming down and falls finally without getting any hurt. The succes- sion of those stories is marvelous, and somehow a baby, being a soft thing, has a Letter chance when it is dropped out of a tenement-house win- dow than a bigger person does. As for the literary stories in the magazines, or in books, where the distresses and sorrows of childhood are written out, that sort of pathos is too easily done to be lawful literary art. Even when I see sick children in the street-cars, or lame children in the streets, I don’t feel any worse about them than I can help, because those in the streets generally show that they have had some doctor's eye on them, and those in the street-cars always seem to be going to a hospital or a dispensary. I think, at least I hope, we may lawfully save ourselves the grief of dwelling on the sufierings of children in such a town as this by the knowl- edge that, on the whole, the care of them is so systematized that few who need special care are neglected. But if we are to grant ourselves this luxury of not feeling any worse than we can help about the children who are pathetic, we are bound to carn that immunity by doing all we can to help the peoplewho best know how to help the children who need help, and can give themselves to that service. It belongs to all of us to see that, in so far as we can contrive it, all children shall have a fair chance to grow up sound and sweet. Only a part of our duty is accomplished when we do our best for our own children. We are bound to help, in so far as we can, with the other children, too, and one sure way of meeting that obligation is to help in maintaining places like this, where sick babies come to get well. 289 ATLANTIC COAST LINE FLORIDA CUBA “CONSULT THE PURPLE FLORIDA’S FAMOUS TRAINS Y ¥.& FLORIDA Zs re Offices ATLANTIC COAST LINB BW YORK Bway cor. 30th St. BOSTON 298 Washington St. PHILADELPHIA 1019 Chestaut St. WASHINGTON, D. C. 601 Pennsylvania Av. BALTIMORE coe. Light & German Sts. , “FLORIDA & WEST INDIAN MITED" “beautiful island. Then around Ma@ it, with one or two days’ stop at the inte: places. Magnificent steamers afford most elaborate hotel accommodations for the entire trip. All outside staterooms. Special tourist rate $140, including every expense. Weekl; saillngs, Booklets free upon reques E> THE NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP CO., 12 Broadway, K. ¥., oe naTwons & WurTcous Co.—25 umon Souuer, nt,