, 1890-04-11
ADOPTING CHILDREN.
BONE CURIOUS SCENES AT THE EN-
GLewoo9 NURSERY.

An Iowa Farmers Visit and what Came
of It-FaonitIes Afforded Those Whose
Homes Arc De.oIate for Selecting Hsirs
or HsIrsEses.
For a baby you called? Why, GER
tainly. Just step up stairs. Now. what
kind Of a baby would you PREFER
why, my wife wants n girl baby with
blue eyes. She amt particular about the
hair being dark or light, but she don't
want no bald heads"
"WeII. we haven't a very large number
at present, but just look around and see
If anything suits you
The honest farmer from Iowa did As he
was hidden. He did not stand. as the re-
corded bit Of conversation may lead some
10 suppose, amid the debris OF a new
mandatory where babies were turned
out by machinery in assorted sizes and
tied up in punches like asparagus, ready
for the purchaser. There was no buzz Of
machinery to deafen the ears of the two
quiet agriculturists as they ~nervously
faced the battery of several pairs Of baby
eyes.
Armed with due references, they had
visited the EnSlewood infant nursery to
select one Of the lone babies as their
'ownest own" and were going about it
as aw~kwardly as only men can.
The Englewood infant nursery is sim.
ply a cottage at e3s Sixty-sixth street.
SELECTING A BABY.
The nursery-cheerful, clean and sun
shiny-is upstairs. 1t was there we all
gathered while the lowan searched for
IA girl baby with blue eyes.
Unfortunately girl babies are hard to
secure. Everybody knows how much
more docile, lovable and desirable gen
orally girls are than boys, and they are
snapped up accordingly. The nursery
only contained one girl on this especial
day, and she wasn't near so much OF a
baby as the man wanted.
Now, that's a boy with a beautiful
eye said the matron admiringly, as a
little tot with black orbs and a decidedly
prominent nose was hoisted to the mans
knee.
The man looked discouraged, tho
youngstcr poked his finger in his beau,
tiful eye and beloved. The matron
changed the s~ubject-and the child.
Next came a duo of candidates. The
farmer held ono ON each knee and look
ed as though lie had bcon suddenly
blessed with twins. They were both
blue eyed youngsters about . months
old. The smaller had no hair and was
rejected as Ineligible. The other was of
"A lusty German type, for babies have
types quite as much as grown people,
popular opinion to the contrary notwith.
standing. Chances were evidently bring
ing round in favor of Lhis one, but the
farmer. with all the carefulness Of his
class, was bound to inspect the remain-
der of the stock.
Don't YOU be SO foolish as to take a
girl. Girls amt no use on a farm, What
you is a good healthy boy, who
will soon lend II belpins hand to the
II dunno, said the farmer reflective
~ "you kin mako a boy outen n girl, so
to speak. for she kin help in the chores
outen u boy. They won't 30 homework,
nohow."
The Inatron -endeavored to persuade
him otherwise, remarking in an aside
that for her part she didn't want to see
mat. sweet little girl put on a farm
where she might not get half an educa-
ton, and she so smart, too. 1t wa diff
ferent with boys-they could work their
way through better.
THE NURSERY AND ITS INMATES.
Asleep on a corner cot was the police
man. - called from having come from
the police station at the tender age Of 81
hours.
I'VE didn't know who his parents
were, Of course" said the matron to a
reporter after the Iowa farmer had taken
his departure. lie was quite the home
lest sample Of u baby 1t has ever been
my i'll fortune to behold. The tiny red
face, creased till it looked like the map
Of Europe, coarse red hair already SPRING
ing above the rctrcuting brow, along
upper lip forming half Of a ridicUlousIy
wide mouth, and the little fists clinched
pugnaciously as though they already
graspcd the baton Of 'Onc of the finest
II ever the Policeman is adopted it will
surely be by Il blind man. The Iowa
farmer wouldn't look at him, in spite Of
my seductive oudravors. Instead he de.
cided upon the azure eyed 'Dutchy, and
the whole tenor of one life was forever
changed. Goodness! Think OF the greet
ing tim nan will get when he returns
home without the girl he was instructed
TO bring and with the boy lac was warned
against"
The Englewood day nursery is an out
growth Of the American Educational Aid
association, Il child saving organization
which aims to bring homeless, orphaned
and neglected children into juxtaposi-
ton with childlrs- and charitable homes.
The welfare OF the children holds pre-