The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

counties in northern Indian, and is con-
trolled by a board of lady managers resid-
ing in Mishawaka, LaPorte, Elkhart,
Goshen, Warsaw and other cities and towns
in the northern part of the State. The
managers have a contract with the COM
missioners of each of the ten counties, con-
! tributing to the support of the institution
under which orphan children are taken at
special rates. The ultimate object is to
provide permanent homes for the children
among farmers and others. and in this the
managers have been very successful. From
Sept. 1 to Oct. Is, this year. ten children
were admitted to the home. and the
same number were provided with per-
manent homes in private families,
most of them in Iowa. The superintendent
of the institution has made seventeen trips
West with children to locate in homes and
has always succeeded. The success of this
institution commends the plan of its organ
| izatiOn as worthy of imitation, viz: the
clubbing together of contiguous counties
in establishing cooperative orphans
homes.
The Mishawaka home publishes a little
monthly paper called The Wait, devoted
cSpCCidily " u lntCICStcs las nuhu-
Der contains the announcement of a long
felt want. which is rather uniquely put,
and which we copy for sweet charity's
sake. Any woman who thinks she comes
near enough perfection to fill the bill can
communicate with the superintendent. 1t
says:
W g want q competent woman to take care of
children, and we want her badly, but we want
one built after certain ''plans and specifications
hereinafter named" WedOD't want a real young
woman, fired with zeal and enthusiasm, sure to
burn out before the cold weather sets in. We
don't want a woman with a bushel basket OF the.
cries, and no practical ideas, upon 1.-The care of
nursing bottles" We don't want a woman who
expects to be married in the spring. nor one who
graciously permits the county 10 take care OF her
children whilst she waits for the divorce courts
one TO I'LL our place., or one who understands
running the Institution better than the board of
managers. We don't want q restless, revolu-
tionary spirit, for We mean TO have things
go on pretty much as they have for the
past seven or eight years. neither do we
want q female crank, nor 80 pounds or so OF
sentiment and gush, but we do want a plain,
practical, middle-aged woman, neat and orderly,
who will look after the children's physical and
moral welfare. upon the suppositiOn that they are
INST HIST IKE o,d 1saer snliar rhav n" r more nrnh e5ner and OF OF
less worth training and molding according to
standards of Christian manhood and woman
want a woman clear-headed and brainy enough
to accept a subordinate position In the home and
and business-like manner. with no assumption Of
self-sacrifce or prating about the good OF the
cause" or rewards In the hereafter" but with a
| distinct understanding that for services con-
scientiously rendered q good home and ample
remuneration will be assured.
WASHINGTON is a great city for gam
bling of all kinds, and for gamblers of high
and low degree. Among other forms of
gambling the lotteries do alarge and steady
business there. Many clerks invest regu-
larly out of their monthly salaries. Citi-
zens of alleged responsibility patronize the
policy shops. and the colored people vie
with the whites in the regularity of their
Investments. TIL Havana and Louisi-
ana lotteries are the ones chiefly patron
lied, and their influence is very demoraliz-
ing. As is usually the case among gam
blers, superstition has much to do with
the game, especially among the more ig-
norant patrons. Any odd or queer combi-
nation of numbers attracts attention and
is likely to have a run in the hope that it
will bring luck. For some time past the
cOlored lottery gamblers nave been betting
on a combination of numbers called blood
row" The number were 10, IS. Is. Blood
Tow was so named because these numbers
came oct just at the time of a sensational
murder IN Washington some time ago, and
ever since the colored gamblers nave
been betting on them. The numbers were
played a long time without winning, when
a few days ago.. singularly enough. the
same combination reappeared and brought
large winnings to those who had bee n bet
ting on it. The extent to which lottery
gambling is carried ON in Washington is
little less than q national scandal, and
ought to be broken up by Congress.
BELLAMY's Looking Backward" could not
have been written twenty years ago.-News.
Couldn't, eh? AS nearly all the books
from which Bellamy borrowed his leading
ideas were written muchmore than twenty
years ago, there seems no good reason why
Looking Backward" should not have been
written earlier had Bellamy himself been
earlier at it. Or, if objection is made to
the term borrowing" which is not meant,
however, in IN offensive sense, Bellamy's
book might have been written any time
along the ages by simply carrying to an
outcome, more or less logical, the social
istic ideas that have been af1oat since
primitive man began to study the problem
of life and living. Making due allowance
for the modern improvements in use In
Bellamy's Utopia. and which. not having
been invented twenty years ago, could not
have suggested themselves to a writer. the
work might as easily have been evolved
any time during the century. Indeed, so
far as a general interest in such matters is
concerned. it is probable that communistic
ideas influenced a greater number of people
in this country III the days Of Brook Farm
and of the experiments of Owen and others
than in this age, which has seen the expert
ments fail. Bellamy may serve as an apos-
tie of a cult. but it is not a new cult save in
minor detail.
A JOURNAL correspondent, writing from
Italy, supplies this interesting paragraph;
Our present Secretary of War. General Proc
tor, who. you know, has the greatest interest In
marble-quarrying, marble saving, ETC., of any
man in the world Though his son row runs the
concem). told me that he didn't believe the an,
clients knew how to cut. or cav. marble as we do
and when he was here, a few years ago, asked
me TO show him son e undressed. but sawed
marble. So ] too him TO several places. amongst
them to the house OF n. POPIDIUS PRisCUS. al
Pompeit, and there I showed General Proctor nc
less than ten specimens OF ak different kinds o.