, 1880-12-26

: SUNDAY. BECEMBER
muscle he had discove1od. In g post-mortem
examination, shared In the general happi-
ness. ~:
THE FOUNDLINGs' HOME.
As general rule city editors are not given
to making mistakes in the puttfng-togelher
Of men and tasks, and yet they 40 OCCASION
ally fall into errors OF Judgment III TINS I'M
portant matter. And one OF these mls1udg-
ments-a serious one at thae-occurreo yes
terday when the youngest and most inexpe-
rienced. bachelor on THE TR1BUNE's local
force was sent to report the Christmas hap
| peuines at the Foundlings' Home.
The misguided young man. who had al
ready visited the jail, the County Hospital,
| and one or two other public institutions, and
learned of the happenings there. failed ut
! terIy when he struck the tenderer atmos-
| phere Of the baby world on Wood street to
| appreciate the fact and 1t WAS not to be Won
| tlered ut that the worthy matron lifted her
eyebrows with true maternal horror when
| the statistical youth propouuded his first
MADAM, If you will inform me, In the
first place, Of the exact weight, in pounds, Of
tho amount Of turkey. which your lovely
babes to-day disposed of?" ~,
/
matron half shlieked, when, waxing calmer,
she assured the reporter that the lovely
babes. Of which the Home was harbortng
just fifty, had not had any turkey, not an
regulating their diet, they should not do so.
| "Poor little things" remarked the sympa-
t thetic yet befogged young man. ESQ young,
and yet no turkey. Ahi I see, nice little
cut of the roast tor each, with potatoes t,!:
brow Drowned IN in the dish' fried parsn'ps' BUT
'Most decidedly not, sir; certainly not;
dc. you suppose that we would give our
| chillren--' ~
| with felly; or a piece OF boiled"
"Slr, we have but two diets for our little
| darlngs, the natural-(the reporters blush
was allowed to fill In the ellipsis'-and the
'And you put no cranberry sauce in the
Most decidedly I'd not"
| "No, sir" =.
And no plum-puddtngf
"TIen how OH earth are the little beggars
going to find out that it's Christmas Day at
The matron, softenlng from her lndigna-
tion, tried to explain 10 the inexperienced
| young bachelor that the babies were alto
| gcther too young, and that for them to ILL.,
dulge In such diet would be cofics unendlng
arid heavy percentage Of mortality before
the beginning Of the new year, but the youth
| was not to be Imposed upon, and he rushed
back to the office and dashed off a trenchAnt
article depicting the drawbacks OF a found
ling's life, with specially eloquent dwelling
the erne anngr in wen ~
the delightful luxuries enjoyed by the more
lucky Of mankind.
OF course the article was not published;
instead, the most experienced married man
-$-E fo+$. r,S& COS
the Home, where, III company with Dr..
French, he looked "round" the establish
ment, inspected each separate one OF the in.
fantie half hundred, saw the nurses and
adq d h,s3 sMpSys & yff Gt the
ital Christmas dinner, and then sat down
with the Doctor, who gave him full in
sight INTO the everyday workings OF the
place. In what he said, the Doctor aimed
specially to make the impression that the
Home is intended not merely ior the purpose
of saving the unfortunate babies, but the un.
fortunate mothers also. When they wisl, to
do so, the mothers: he said, can stay at the
Home with their babies without in
any way revealing their, identity
or otherwise compromising themselves
The only demand made Of them was that,
If they proved strong enough to DO so, they
should nurse another baby In addition to
the unfortunate young, mothers display tor
their offspring. he told pathetic incident
which recently came under his notice.
he5s Sss sd IN the HG@g Gay YIN the ef DoeSi oeo
said, "a young woman from whose mind the
arrival OF her child seemed to obliterate all
feelings of pain common to such occurrences.
Unfortunately, the baby died after 9 very
| few weeks, a1td tho ypunG mother 61ot
was for time almost nnbearable. Recof.
ering from her sorrow, she devoted herself
to the care Of other babies, and, in her
capacity Of wet-nurse (she was q strong
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