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Show HOSPITAL FOR POOR 0R1S4 Hditor Tebgram: It is a fine and laudable desire and work to build memorials to the dead, and if there were sufficient means for helping the living also tn this state tt would, be more praiseworthy. There are so many calls for help In these strenuous strenu-ous times that if it were not for the charitable magnanimous feelings people have now they would feel it impossible to respond so generously. But my notice has been called to another urgent need for thanty in this ttate, which. If carried car-ried out with success, would save innumerable in-numerable lives; and that is a home or huspiuil for negicti - stvk children, j wlioNe parents are o poor ihey have no means to buy the necessary 'medicines and comforts. Many parents are also ignorant in knowing how to care for their own sick children. A physician came into his office after visiting some of these patients, looking sad. I satd. "Why so foloml doctor-" lie answered, with a sich "Oh, the suffering suf-fering and deaths through ignorance and poverty Is something terrible. I have been visiting a hou where they had a fin baby boy die last summer, and T Just left the same house tonight and their beautiful ui girl is dying with the measles, pneumonia developing-, where, afur my directions, if she had proper care, she mtjrht recover. These are not the only cases, and 1 have been Thinking if we could have a "home" or "hospital." with proper nurses, we might save a great man lives that with the present system of living will be lose." I ute-t most other physicians could tell of similar cusea yours sincerely, s. K. C. |