Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-08
COLORED ORPHANS.
WHERE THEY ARE RAISED AND CARED
FOR AND TAUGHT.

Methods Employed in Raising ana
Training the Youngsters.
One dav 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-
ful and poetical pictures Of them, and the re
porter TO tell in plain and homely style what
the pictures were all about BY and by they
came in sight of big luilding-a building
with grounds around II, and building of
that peculiarly bcnevoleGt shape which says
to the behclder as PLAIN as words, I'm a
charity building; no one pays anything to
live in me-" A policeman, leaning his tlne
back against a shady tree and blissfully
watching the cable cars whirr past, explained
that that was an asylum for young colored
gentlemen and ladies who had tho hard luck
to he orphans, and that those were some Of
the young gentlemen having the powwow on
the porch.
A minute afterward the artist was pulling
the polished door bell Of the institution with
both hands. A gong sounded, and in Sec
ond a hurricane started up somewhere, far of
in the budding, 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 n smaller colored gen.
tlanan, one about and the other years old.
Both of these youngsters were plainly in
state of high exuitation, and reveling in UNI
wonted freedom. Ono cause of it became
plain whom they announced that the superin-
ten,tcRt was not il, and that they were at
ten6ing to visitors
BABIES WERE SwARMING AROUND.
When the artist humbly asked permission
TO 80 out on the porch, the youth who was
running things replied with some grandeur
that lie guessed 50, hut that there was no fun
there. IL carried the request to the wife OF
the superintendent. and that lady was kind
enough 20 lead the way. 1t was a big, wide
eorgh. carefully fenced in, and babies vera
sYarning around there ike flies in a taffy
pan
And they were none OF your every day
Youngsters, with bald heads and light blue
ewes They We're solid young ones Babies
with thick heads of woolly hair, with fat
arms and legs, with teeth that were stunning,
and complcxions of wonderful variety, rang
iE- from the color of much-watered tea To
that Of & well kept kitchen range. Each one
# these Youngsters had an occupation dill
II tiltil II
sae,ial and most important interests to look
after They all agreed, however, in having
the very biggest kind Of time that ever was
eni5ved by any porchful of colored babies.
The bosG of this little African colony was the
mos lnatherlv of all colored women-a
woman more than old enough to be the grand
| mother of any baby there, woman whose
every movement spoke of countless babies
| successfully stored through measles and
| scarlet fever, and a woman with smile to
keep babies warm 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 sec that the poor thin
little Young ones who often come to her care
| grow and prosper in a way to make Jonah
and lis eourtls quite dizzy.
All babies Mrs. Brown says, are us delicate
IS Young turkeys, rs every mother knows
| But the negro babies are the most delicate
| AMI difficult to bring up of any. A colored
| hahys legs would Iuch rather so 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 orc over, and falls into a tub of hot
| water with measles and ntumps in full blast.
| Sometimes q white child will play near a
staircase without falling down A colorel
baby never.
| 4 col0red baby gets all the diseases he can
| and risks his life as often as is at all conve-
| nient This is a trick which the colored baby
| acquired in old slave times, when it didn't pay
| him TO grow up, anyhow, and he has never
| gotten over it. For, of course, each colored
| hahy must learn for himself that slavery has
| been wiped out.
| SYSTEM OF RAISING TEE YOUNGSTERS.
Mrs. Browns system of raising the refrac
! tory colorcd babies is very simple, and it i:
also very successful She does not let then
| do ANYTHING that is bad for them, but let:
| them do everything else. All of the young
ones are very fond Of Mrs Brown, and, nevel
| having known their own mothers, live under
tha pleasant delusion that they are all hel
children, and all brothers and sisters, Thi
promotes harmony among the young ones
and causes them to receive the rare spanking
with as much submission as they do the mucl
more frequent rewards.
Right near the nursery there is a big room
which receives the youngsters when the nurs
cry ceases to be sufficiently mature for them
That is the kindergarten, and the talent of tn
artist who is on hand all this time, gives yol
the first glimpse that was had of it. A buncl
| Of small colored boys were sitting around
very low table absorbing wisdom through
eyes and ears and singing in chorus the i'm
portant facts that they had learned Whel
they said that they had ten fingers they helC
up that number to prove it, and if any stu
dent as he sang This is my thumb" had tn
misfortune to point toward his ear, he wa
scOracd by his fellows and ccnSured by tn
young lady who has charge of the class
Besides tn kindergarten, where the chill
drcn learn how to sing, there are six classe
which fill the children fuI. of just as mucl
learning as they can hold up to their 12tl
year, when they leave the institution an,
start cut in the world to earn living. Their
was n head and a tail TO every class, and tn
tail rs a rule seemed to be having most fun
There were success and triumph embodied il
| the Young woman who wore q medal, and til
rial troubles of life had begun with the YER,
young women. who might be seen here am
there doing penance, with their faces to tn
wall carefully covering their heads with thei
aprons to shut out the sight of mockinl
| youth New York Sun
, Nemesis 0yertakes Magnetic Healer.
y doctor at Portland, Ore, took too r1ucl
electricity while practicing what he calle'
magnetic healing, and now he is suffering
from PARALYSIS of the lower extremities. H
used 10 wear shoes with plates in the sole
OF them and stand on metallic plates
which there was all electric battery, and u
the current passed through him he trans
United it tohis patients by the laying on
hands, claiming, of course, tbs power wa
within himself ald not from n battery
Chicago Times
| lie Was Entirely too Arsumentative.