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THE AUSTRALIAN
Fix this textWOMAN'S MIRROR
Fix this text“The Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24—No. 43.
Fix this textWednesday, September 15, 1948.
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Fix this textNew Deal for CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Fix this textIllustrated
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Fix this textWILL
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Fix this textwjOW little one knows of what is happening behind
Fix this textt^le scenes * n one s own city- I have just uncovered
Fix this textWjrJa I■ a great wonderful field of work—and talk about
Fix this textheartening discovery!
Fix this textfill Almost an accident, the fact of having to deliver
Fix this text—i-y 1 a message for someone else to the city office of this
Fix this textorganisation gave me the chance of a talk to one
Fix this textof the New Dealers,
Fix this textThe office was heaped up with basketry and pottery, and
Fix this textMiss Handcrafts, as she shall be called, was one of those people
Fix this textwho are a bundle of energy and selfless enthusiasm. One had
Fix this textnot been three minutes with
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Fix this textThis little fellow
Fix this textcannot play, but
Fix this texthe can now be made
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Fix this textThe work? She was
Fix this texta handcraft instructor
Fix this textattached* to this Society
Fix this textfor Crippled Children, which had
Fix this textbeen in existence for twenty
Fix this textyear f{ though I had known nothing about it.
Fix this textOf course I was full of questions. How many children was
Fix this textthe society looking after? About two thousand, and the society
Fix this textran three hospitals ior them, took them to holiday camps, and
Fix this texthad organised a number of social clubs as centres.
Fix this textHere such children, when able to go to them, couid meet each
Fix this textother, have entertainment, and be made to feel that they also
Fix this texthave a share of the normal life of the community. Special
Fix this textschools for such , children are also run by the society, which
Fix this textaids and supervises them up to the age of twenty-one.
Fix this text“It must cost a great deal,” I commented.
Fix this text“Yes. Our expenses were almost four thousand pounds last
Fix this textyear. The Government subsidises our hospitals to the extent of
Fix this textthirty per cent. Apart from that we get all sorts of donations
Fix this textfroin fine people, many of whom want to be anonymous.
Fix this text“From five shillings up to a thousand pounds we receive,
Fix this textand we have lots of auxiliaries always raising something. But
Fix this textwe always need more than we get. We couldn’t manage if most
Fix this textof our helpers weren’t honorary. Only a few, the actual staff,
Fix this textare paid.”
Fix this textShe herself was “staff.”
Fix this text“I was originally a typist and book-keeper. Then
Fix this textthe war came and I felt I must do something to
Fix this texthelp. My pet hobby was handcrafts—l loved it—so
Fix this textI became a handcraft instructor at military hospitals,
Fix this textwhere that kind of therapy is so important.
Fix this text“After the war I felt I couldn’t go back to my
Fix this textorthodox job; there didn’t seem to be enough meaning
Fix this textin it. Through my hospital work I had heard of this
Fix this textsociety and I joined up.
Fix this text“There are wonderful salaries going now in my
Fix this textown line, but this work’s so wonderful. I’m up to
Fix this textmy neck in my real hobby all the time, and it’s new
Fix this textlife to such a lot of splendid kiddies.”
Fix this textShe indeed gave the impression of the right woman
Fix this textin the right niche, and was happy about it. Her
Fix this textcheery energy would mean much to a handicapped
Fix this textchild.
Fix this text“I’m on the go the whole time,” she went on.
Fix this text“I’m visiting homes from [she named a far-flung
Fix this textseaside suburb] to [an inland one at the outer
Fix this textlimit of the greater metropolitan area]. Sundays too.
Fix this textThat’s the only way I can get around regularly to all
Fix this textthe children in my care.”
Fix this textI asked how contacts were made.
Fix this text“In the first place we get to hear of them through
Fix this textthe almoners of regular hospitals, or some neighbor may get in
Fix this texttouch with us about ‘a kid in my street who’s crippled.’ Mothers
Fix this textthemselves also come to us. We register them on our books
Fix this textright from infancy, you know; every kind of paralysis, spastic
Fix this textand otherwise, and crippling deformities of all sorts.
Fix this text“Many who’ve been trained in our schools can take such
Fix this text(Continued on page 6.)
Fix this text[Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as a newspaper.]
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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