Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1930, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 23, 1930—PART ONE ¢ B-7 ‘W LIZARDS, CRICKETS, GRASSHOPPERS|$3,000 NEEDED IN PAGE COME OUT IN SPRINGLIKE WEATHER - FUNTASKS BANISH CHILDREN'S PAIN Hospital Recreation Super- visor Tells How Problems . Are Mastered. - Tony was sick and fretful and, worse n all, just bored to death as any normal boy of 8 would be after weeks o in_a hospital bed. ) Tony’s mental state actually had be- come contagious among the erstwhile cheerful little patients in this particular ward of Children’s Hospital when Mrs. Mary R. Weller, the recreation super- visor, entered one day and sensed the situation with a single experienced glance. “Now what's the mater, Tony?” she ;&ks’d as she patted his rebellious curly ead. “Aw, I'm just sick and tired of lying here all day, I want something to play with,” Tony rebelled. Mrs. Weller, who had her own idea, | fetched him s monkey on a string and a mechanical toy. For about 20 minutes Tony appeared perfectly satisfied and contented. He made the monkey jump and laughed at its antics and he ran the little engine up and down a board. For a while his troubles were ended. But wise Mrs, Weller, who knows the ways of children far better than most of us, knew otherwise. She waited pa- tiently until Tony tired of his play things and threw them aside to renew his fretfulness. Mrs. Weller went to the play room and returned with a plece of card board and a pair of scissors. New Interest Aroused. “Now let's make some animals,” she told Tony and with experienced skill she cut out a ferocious looking tiger. ‘Tony cocked his head to one side and € registered interest. “Suppose you see what you can do,” Mrs. Weller suggested, turning over the implements. “Tony cut out a dog. At least he said it was a dog. He next tried some- thing else. It soon absorbed his inter- est and he was the envy of all the other children in the ward. Finally one little girl couldn't con- ceal her wish any longer. “Let me try it,” she pleaded. “Me t0o,” arose the ward chorus. ‘That was how a piece of paper and a pair of scissors started a game in this ward of sick children that lasted a week. Mrs, Weller supervised it and each child tried to cut out some differ- ent figure. “Before the week was over I counted 60 different objects these boys and girls had cut out themselves,” she sald. “They thought them all out 7 on their own initiative. That ward was & happy and contended place all week.” Mrs. Weller told this story merely to llustrate the kind of recreational work that is being done at Children's Hos- pital. Mental or occupational therapy, you may call it, but whatever it is, the attending physicians are enth about the value of it. B Mrs. Weller explained it was simply teaching children that they have this power to do creative, inventive work and that expensive toys are unnecessary ‘when they can indulge their own facili- ties for self entertainment. She be- ’-' lieves that is one of the most important things—perhaps the most important thing—to develop in a child. Has Way With Children. For six years Mrs. Weller has been doing just that thing at Children’s Hos- pital. She has a way with children. Whenever there is rticularly 'Kmb- lemmatical case, it's the habit with the nurses to , “Go get Mrs. Weller, she'll quiet down.” And she does, without fail, getting the child’s mind off his pain or sickness and interested in entertai himself in a way that has source wi t end. If parents could only understand the uses to which odds and ends in their household could be put to entertaining their children, she contends, their pocketbooks as well as ‘heir patience ‘would not be 8o sorely faxed. A hospital is an ideal place to pick up scraps of amusement for children ‘whose minds simply must be taken from v the“tr o:n troubles 'u they are to get well and strong again. Every one knows about the little sticks with which the nurses, after applying cotton on the ends, swab out the pa- tient's throat. These are ideal for many other purposes, and Mrs. Weller teaches her boys and girls how to weave them into tiny baskets or into amall chairs, some of which are offered for sale in the Thrift Shop at Tenth and E streets, where Mrs. Weller wijl ex- hibit some of the work this 3 But it is not with the idea of selling their articles that Mrs. Weller spends hours in instructing the children. “It's for their own self-expression, to create resourcefulness in entertainment,” she stresses. One of the most popular things in the playroom is & small loom. Mrs, Weller didn't know how to operate it when it ¢ arrived, so she experimented with it and made the children do likewise. | ‘They solved the “combination” eventu- | ally and now happy hours are-spent by @ convalescents weaving mats and small rugs. Boy Prize Lace Maker. A -year-old boy is the prize lace maker at the hospital just now. It isn't mecessary to buy expensive material to make lace. A hospital has no end of mosquito netting and when it is un- raveled, the threads can be made into all sorts of attractive lace articles. Un- der the skillful fingers of eager children, crepe napkins and towels are being E__:( Thompson Bros. ): yet has failed in a situation. When there is a fretful child at Children’s Hospital Mrs. Mary R. Weller is called in for consultation. In the above photo Mrs. W eller is comforting Elmer Stone, left, and Guy Ewell right. “MOTHER” TO ALL THE SICK AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL She never Staff Photo. | transformed into fruits and flowers, as | 1s also paper mache, which is excellent material for vases and jars. When Mrs. Ridley McLean endowed this important hospital work, she gen- erously told Mrs. Weller to spend as much as she liked for toys or anything else to entertain the little patients. “No, the children would have too much then, it would kill their creative instinct,” Mrs. Weller reasoned. That is her method and it has worked won- ders, as all the doctors and therapists agree. Mrs. Weller likes to tell about a small colored girl who left the hospital after months of iliness. She was offered any toy she wished to take home. What she chose, instead of a prettily dressed doll, was one of the pictures some of the children had made. Most. of the children are so young, she explained, vet they respond so quickly to creative suggestions that he: work holds unfailing interest. Many of the mothers have seized upon the idea and carry it on in their homes. “That s the most encouraging feature of it all,” she said. LIEUT. VAUPRE WINS MITCHELL TROPHY Averages 146.7 Miles Per Hour Over 120-Mile Course in Speed Event. By the Associated Press. SELFRIDGE FIELD, MOUNT CLEM- ENS, Mich., November 22.—Lieut. Louis A. Vaupre, attached to the 36th Pur- suit Squadron, captured the Mitchell Trophy, a major military flying award, in the annual speed event here today. Lieut. Vaupre's elapsed time was 49 minutes, 39.75 seconds, an average of 146.7 miles per hour over the 120-mile triangular course. Flying a Curtis P-1, standard army pursuit plane, Lieut. Vaupre nosed out Lieut. George F. Smith of the 27th Squadron, whose time was 49:51:76, of 145.96 miles an hour. Third was Lieut. Theodore M. Bolen of the 27th, with 49:52:38 elapsed time, averaging 145.93 miles per hour. Two groups of army planes partici- pated in the event, the Curtiss P-1's and the Curtiss P-6's, the latter newer and faster Army ships, which carried a six-minute handicap. All of the ships finishing in first four places were P-1's, the handicap prov- ing too heavy for the faster ships to overcome. The speed event was marked by three accidents. Lieut. Frank J. Coleman of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, made a forced landing on a highway and drove his plane into a tree, smashing a wing. He was unfnjured. Lieut. Emmett Fyost, of the 27th Squadron, made a forced landing in a bank at the end of the fleld, but his plane was not damaged. Lieut. Bryant L. Boatner of the 27th Squadron, taxied his plane into a pylon at the close of the race, damaging the ship's propeller. e MURDER TRIAL DELAYED Mother, Accused of Killing Daugh- ter, Found Il | DENVER, November 22 (#)—Illness | again prevented Mrs. Pearl O’Loughlin, |accused of slaying her 10-year-old stepdaughter, Leona, from appearing in | District Court today to have a formal | order issued delaying opening of her | trial from Monday to next Friday. | Judge Henry A. Calvert stated yes- terday the trial would be postponed | until Priday because of her illness, re- sulting from a spinal puncture made {to determine whether she is afflicted with a mental or nervous disorder. TO LOWER PRICES Your Home Is Not || Complete Without a ! Majestic Radio Model 52, Complete | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 22.—A pro- posal to adopt in medicine the foot ball signal system which calls plays by code umbers will be considered by national medical authorities here Monday. The medical numbers will identify the 20,000 distinct diseases and lesions against which American physicians are battling. The purpose is to identify more ef- fectively for all doctors the class of diseases which have obscure but im- Per::gt complcations likely to be over- looked. Foot Ball Analogy Applied. It is like regarding disease and doctors as two op) m? elevens, the ball in possession of disease. code gives the defending medical men the oncoming of the disease the with ‘The & means af identifying “hidden ball” tactics attack. It has been drawn up in printed form for consideration of the Ni Con: ference on Nomenclature of Disease meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine. This is the first mee of Health Relations Committee of the academy sponsored the idea two years 0. names do not always indicate the nature of diseases specifically enough. The re- sult is that statistics do not always tru- LONDON BANKERS SEE RECOVERY AHEAD Surplus Stocks Are Declared Last Obstacle to Return of Prosperity. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 32.—Henry Schroder & Co., banking firm, says in its quarterly re- view today that American manufac- turers and merchants apparently have arrived at the conclusion that surplus stocks are the last, but all-important obstacle to sound business recovery. “The current reductions being made in retail prices, and plans to reduce prices still further, are well conceived,” says the review, “and may be expected to increase vonsumption, reduce stocks in terms of sales, and start the whole cycle of industrial recovery in motion.” *%Fhe report says the present 20000 | prominent London | the kind in this country. The Public | kn < PQ‘, 'PLAN TO IDENTIFY DISEASES BY NUMBERS IS CONSIDERED [National Medical Conference to Discuss Application of System Analogous to Foot Ball Signals. ly represent the experience of physi- ctans, and the country’s “health book- keeping” is incomplete. Cause and Location Indicated. ‘The numbers purpose to classify dis- ease first according to the part of the body it affects, and second by its cause. When the cause is unknown, the num- bers identify “the tracks which the cause leaves.” In the foot ball analogy, the gridiron for this game is the human body, and instead of yard lines the physicians are marking it off with a system of latitude and longitude in disease, which is as definite under their practices as the dif- ince between a two-yard and a 20- yard gain on the field. Confusion in Meaning Prevented. Thus if the code is adopted a physi- cian may report that a patient has 612-14. That means “a protozoan in- fection of the tongue.” When & physi- cian in San Francisco reads that else- where doctors are treating 612-14, the ‘Westerner knows exactly what is meant: but with present names he might not oW, ‘The committee making Monday’s re- port includes representatives of the American Medical Assoclation, Amer- ican Public Health Association, Amer- ican Statistical Association, American Hospital Association and various Fed- eral medical and statistical services, AUTO KILLS 4-YEAR-OLD Hagerstown Girl Run Down in Attempt to Cross Street. Special Dispateh to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 23.— Louise Bragg, 4 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bragg, was killed tonight near her home when she ran into the street just as the car driven | by Herbert Daughty, colored, backed into the curb. Daughty was released, the accident being found unavoidable. Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. 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