LITTLE PATIENTS WHO ASK FOR HELP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

LITTLE PATIENTS WHO ASK FOR HELP.

Sunbeams Dear— . How co j* as keen these past few weeks; quite suddenly the sunshine of summer seemed to leave us, little winter winds sprang up and the evenings grew cold and dark and wintry. I expect fires have started in mos o your omes. ow cosy it is sitting round a blazing wood fire, sewing or reading, or—yes, even doing one s homework. How nice to lie tucked up warmly in bed. listening to the wind whistling round the house and the rain beating steadily against the window panes. • H t * lls v f r y n ' ce an d it makes us think winter is quite a jolly season. But it is not at all jo ly tor some people, and to-day I want to tell my Sunbeams about many little folk in the city for whom the help 6 than" l ° ™ ° f unhap P iness unless we all band together and do something to I 4 e j er an * k, aVe a , very goot * She is a nurse and she tends the sick and the needy of Auckland, and quite quite often she rings us up and asks for little comforts for her poor sick people. The other morning she called to see us and very worried and troubled we found our cheery nurse. "I have so many lttle children and old people who are ill and cold," she told us. "Winter has arrived so suddenly and the cold has delayed recoveries and added to the discomforts of these poor folk." Most of nurse's patients are under nourished and are quite without the ordinary comforts that sick people usually have. Many of them have only one thin blanket on their beds, and comforts like bed socks and hot water bottles are unknown. I was very touched with nurse's account of this poverty and sickness that is in our midst. When I thought o little sick children, struggling to recover from measles and influenza and chicken pox—without any nourishing food and with not even a cosy bed to lie in—my heart felt sad indeed, and I determined to write to my ounbeams and ask their help. The comforts most urgently needed are bed socks of all sizes and hot water bottles. Warm nighties, dressing jackets and pyjamas would also be very weloome. Imagine—oh! Sunbeams, just imagine if everv single Sunshine Club sent us a hot water bottle. I just love to think of 180 "hotties" bringing warmth and comfort to little people who are cold and in pain. Do you think J*# it could be done? ~ Sunbeams, dear, will you do your very, very best?