The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-08-06
COLORED ORPHANS.
WHERE THEY ARE RAISED AND CARED
FOR AND TAUGHT.

Training the Youngsters.
One day recently an artist and reporter
were walking around together away up town.
They were looking for such things as people
are interested in, the artist to make beauti-
full and poetical pictures of them, and the re-
porter to tell in plain and homely style what
: the pictures were all about. hBFsand by they,
came IN sight Of a big building building
with grounds around it, and building of
that peculiarly benevolent shape which says
to the 'beholder as plain as words, "Irn a
charity building; no one pays anything to
live in me-" A policeman leaning his blue
back against shady tree and blissfully
watching the cable cars whirr past, explained
that that was an asylum for young colored
gentlemen and ladies who had the hard luck
to be orphans, and that those were some of
the young gentlemen having the pow-wow on
the porch. .... e.-,-.. 3
minute afterward the artist was pulling
the polished door bell of the Institution with
both hands A gong sounded, and in sec
ond hurricane started up somewhere, far off
in the building, and came sweeping toward
the big door. 1t was pulled in, and the hurri-
cane was found to consist of a small colored
gentlemen, assisted by smaller colored gem
tieman, one about and the other years old.
Both of these youngsters were plainly i'll
state of high exultation, and reveling in un-
wonted freedom. One cause of it became
plain when they announced that the superin-
tendent was not in and that they were at
tending to visitors.
BABIES WERE swARMISG AROUND.
When the artist humbly asked permission
to go out on the porch, the youth who was
running things replied with some grandeur
that he guessed SO, but that there was no fun
there. He carried the request to the wife of
the superintendent, and that lady was kind
enough to lead the way. 1t was big, wide
porch, carefully fenced in, ard babies were
swarming around there like flies in taffy
pan. 5ss seas5
And they we're Rome of your every day
youngsters, with bald heads and light blue
eyes. They were solid young ones. Babies
with thick heads of woolly hair, with fat
arms and legs, with teeth that were stunning,
and complexions of wonderful variety, rang
ing from the color Of much-watered tea ia
that of a well kept kitchen range. Each one
of these youngsters had an occupation diff
ferent from that of his fellows, and each had
special and most important interests to look
after. They all agreed, however, in having
the very biggest kind of time that ever was
The boss of this little African colony was the
most motherly of all colored women-a
woman more than old enough to be the grand
mother of any baby there, a woman whose
every movement spoke of countless babies
successfully steered through measles and
scarlet fever, and a woman with smile to
keep babies waEm and make them feel that
life was worth living even On rainy days.
This was Mrs. Jane Brown, the wise nurse
who has charge of all those little Africans
and whose duty it is to see that the poor, thin
little young ones who often come to her care
grow and prosper in way to make Jonah
and his gourds quite dizzy.
All babies Mrs. Brown says are as delicate
as young turkeys, as every mother knows
But the negro babies are the mest delicate
and difficult to bring up of any. A colored
baby's legs would much rather go crooked
than straight any day. A colored baby is
not satisfied to have the measles and get
quietly through with them. 1t first gets the
measles, then picks up the mumps before the
measles are over, and falls into tub of hot
water with measles and mumps in full blast
Sometimes a white child will play near
staircase without falling down. A coloaee
baby never. a ss es...gs..4
A colored baby gets all the diseases he can
and risks his life as often US is at all convet
nient This is a trick which the colored baby
acquired i'll old slave times, when it didn't pay
him to grow up, anyhow, and he has never
gotten over it. For, of course, each cofored
baby must learn for himself that slavery has |
been wiped out. |
SYSTEM OF RAISING THE YOUNGSTERS. |
Mrs. Browns system Of raising the refrac |
tory colorcd babies is very simple, and it |
also very successful. She does not let them
do anything that is bad for them, but lets |
them do everything else. All of the young |
ones are very fond of Mrs. Brown, and, never |
having known their own mothers, live under |
the pleasant delusion that they arc all hel |
children, and all brothers and sisters. This |
promotes harmony among the young ones |
and causes them to receive the rare spankings |
with as much submission as they do the muck |
more frequent rewards. |
Right near the nursery there is a big room |
which receives the youngsters when the ntrs /
cry ceases to be sufficiently mature for them |
That is the kindergarten, and the talent of the /
artist, who is ON hand all this time, gives yor |
the first glimpse that was had of it. A bunct /
of small colored boys were sitting around
very low table absorbing wisdom through
eyes and cars and singing in chorus the i'm
portant facts that they had learned. When
they said that they had ten fingers they. hello
up that number to prove it, and if any stu.
dent as he sang This is my thumb" had the
misfortune to point toward his ear, he Fss
scorned by his fellows and cersured by the
young lady who has charge of the class = 3
. Besides the kindergarten, where the chill
dren learn how to sing, there arc six classes |
which fill the children full Of Just as much
learning us they can hold up to their 18th
year. when they leave the institution and
start out in the world to earn living. Thelt
was q head end o tail to every class, and the
tail as rule seemed to be having most fun i!
There were success and triumph embodied il
the young woman who wore medal, and the
real troubles of life had begun with the very
youhg women who might be seen here ano
there doing penance, with their faces to the
wall, carefully covering their heads with their
aprons to shut out the sight Of moeking
youth.-New York Sun. .s:.-.r
Tho Secret of Sanguhfary Dueis.
M. Aurelien Scholl, the witty French an.
thor, devotes an amusing ehroniaue to the
late Dr. Theyenet, whose notorious readiness
70 magnify the merest sword prick into
dangerous wound brought his services 5into
great request ON such occasions MI. Scboll. |
indeed, goes so far as to assert that the excel.
ent doctor adopted the prccaution of |
bringing vial of blood with him, when he
vas asked to attend combatant into the
ield; and he contrived by dexterous use of
IS contents, to give such a ghastly appear
lnce to the slightest scratch that some ap-
'arently sanguinary duels at which he as
listed did not cost solitary drop of blood
o either OF the parties. The Argonaut.
81 - b SIS 1850
Connecticut Papers Little Fish story.
There is an old pickerI in the Plainville
ond-so old that he cannot make a li7lng in
ne pickerel way OF catching smallcr fish,
nd after several hours of vain pur,uit one
ay last week he saw our adevip ashing, &c
e glided up and BIT the line OF close +. The |
ole and pulled it around until lie caught d