The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-02
The Romance of q Founding.
From the Ne,c York Times.


WASHINGTON, Dec. % Now and then one
hears of an incident in real life so Economically
quiXotic that if read in Il novel il would be
secuted as too improbable for moments sen
Sible consideration. An incident OF this kind
was recently related by one Of the lady board of
visitors to the Washington Founding ASYLUM
a regulation OF this institution is that no child
shall be received as an inmate unless the name
OF at least one of its parents is known. Some
what less than two years ago one Of the attend
ant physicians drove TO the institution in the
early morning hours, bearing in his arms O tiny
morsel OF humanity, which he left in charge OF
the matron. Later, when the doctor called on
his professional rounds he held a long confer
ence with the matron, who, with a woman's
quick intuition, had already noticed that the
garments in which the little one was clothed
suggested wealth. Somehow after a time, from
little things which leaked out, it came to be
generally understood that the parents were
both society. people prominent in the upper
tendon of this city. Later the news came that
the mother, who had never been permitted
even to look upon her child, had been take n
abroad by her parents
The little one grew and fourished at sthe
asylum, where because Of its history no less
than It's unusual beauty and attractiveness il
became general favorIte. Last spring among
the visitors TO the asylum was q wealthy matron
OF TINS CITY VINO had been commissioned by a
friend in Switzerland TO secure for ADOPTION a
fine looking child for whom n physicians GER
tlhcate could be obtained declaring it free from
the taint OF disease. No sooner had the lady
70 secure II for her frieads in Switzerland The
necessary formulas were gone through with and
the child was taken away and surrounded al
once with every luxury. The lady's plan had
been TO spend the summer abroad, where upoh
her arrival on the continent, she would be met
by her Swiss friends, into whose hands she was
to deliver the infant, for whom formal papers
of adoption would then be made out.
For some reason this plan was changed and
the lady busted herself In getting IN a costly
outfit for the beautiful child, who SHE had de-
cdei should accompany her TO Atlantic City for
the summer A whitecapped bonnie was ac-
cordingly engaged and the Trio left for the New
Jersey coast, whore they we're during the wnrrn
months. CHep her rsturH TO Washington in
the autumn W lady announced to her aston
ished husband that she was ~ attached 10 the
child it would BE- impossible for her ever to give
MIN up. The couple have several grown chill
dren Of their own, and as soon as the decision OF
their mother became known, as may be imag-
ined, IL created o tornado which et last accounts
was still raging. Meanwhile the Swiss friends
are clamoring to have the child sent over to
them. What the upshot Of the affair will be 10
Is impossible 70 conjecture. The lady and her
husband who At preselt have the child own. in
addition % other valuable property In this city,
an immense stone house IN a fashionable portion
Of the suburbs surrounded by extensive grounds
which has been leased for a year 10 a leading
member Of the judiciary.