The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-23

Neo York Letter to Springfield Republican.
Strangers from the country are often
taken in by the women who advertise
beautiful babies for adoption. This is
another vile of the arch enemy of man.
kind. There are at least one hundred
places in this city where you will be
shown infants of aristocratic parentage.
You will be told that little ones father
is dead, and its mother is obliged to
break up her home and go out sewing,
or to work behind a counter, or some
such nonsense. You will be told that an
other little ones farther went to Europe
and has not been heard from, and that
in his absence his wife gave birth to the
dear little babe and then died, leaving
the infant to the care of the she-wolf
who advertises it for adoption, and who
tells you the romance. The truth is
much simpler The babies are servant
girls babies, fallen women's babies,
shop girls babies, the progeny of crime
and folly and ignorance. Choke down
your tender heart if you feel it rising,
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your hand on your pocketbook when
YOU hear about these babes of gentle
lineage. I know man who gave his
heart, purse and emotions full sway in
such a case and on two or three occa-
sions. His experience should be a
warning to have nothing to do with
strange babies. He is a farmer in the
central part of New York state. He
married his neighbours daughter, as
farmers are apt to do, and she bore
him no children. Years passed by and
hiswife's sister died in childbirth. His
wife took the dear little pledge to her
own home and cared for it, and present
ly its farther died. Then the farmer
and his wife adopted the babe and gave
it their family name. "In for penny,
in for pound" says the proverb, so
the farmer presently came to New York,
read about baby for adoption, and
carried home what he thought was a
daughter of the top crust of Knickerbock-
er stock. Then he had two girl babies
and they had his sterling good family
name. In few years he came to New
York, read about still another high
born baby, and logged that home.
This time it was boy that took his
name. Well, this was twenty years
ago. That boy is now about the worst
youth of the country. Despite his care
| full moral breeding, despite fond foster
mothers tender and pious care, de-
spite his pure surroundings and the
best example of virtue and rectitude in
his home companions and tutors, Is
as low wretch as breathes. Not only
is he a thief and drunkard, but he is
foul and base scamp as well. The first
girl, the farmers neice, is sweet and
charming woman, the wife of well-to-do
professional man. The other child, the
first babe of choice parentage picked uE
in New York, is a singular study. She
is a good young woman, bright OF wit
devoted to her foster-parents, well In
formed and fond of study. But she il
built like horse. She has enormous
bones; she has the hands and feet of
giantess; her skin is rough, and coarse
land lcssther-likc; hen voice is like tina
of a cow with cold. No one seems tt
have got over the first shock her appear
ance produces consequently she seems
likely to die an old maid, though in al
that makes true womanhood she is the
equal of the salt of the earth, from whom
the old farmer at first thought she
had sprung.