Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-06
ADOPTING CHILDREN.
sohE CURIOUS SCENES AT THE EN-
eLEWooD NURSERY.
an Iowa Farmers Visit and What Came
u it-faei tiles Afforded Those Who's.
Homes Are Dereiats for Selecting Heirs
or HeIresses.

Homes Are Deseiats for Selecting Heirs
or Heiresses.
For baby you called? WHY CIR.
talnly. just step up stairs. Now. what
kind Of baoy would you preferY''
W ny, my wife wants girl baby with
blue eyes. She amt particular about the
ilair being dark or light, but she don't
want no bald heads"
Wei, we haven't a very large number
at present, but just look around and see
1t anything suits you.
The honest farmer from Iowa did az he
was hidden. He did not stand, an the re-
corded bit OF conversation may lead some
70 suppose, amid the debris Of new
manufactory where babies were turned
out by machinery in assorted sizes and
tied up In lunches like asparagus, ready
for the purchaser. There was no buzz Of
machinery to deafen the ears Of the two
quiet agricuiturists as they nervously
faced the battery of several pairs Of baby
eyes.
Armed with due references. they had
visited the Englewood infant nursery to
< select one Of the lone babies as their
I ''ownest own" and were going about it
as awkwardly as only men can.
/ The Englewood infant nursery is sim
ply cottage at 238 sixty-sixth street.
SELECTING A BABY.
/ The nursery-cheerfui, clean and sun
shiny--is upstairs. 1t was there we ali
gathered while the Iowan searched for
girl baby with blue eyes.
Unfortunately girl babies are hard 10
secure. Everybody knows how n4acii
more docile. loyable and desirable gen
orally girls are than boys. and they are
snapped ~ 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. the
I youngstor pobed his finger in his "beau-
tiful eye" and beloved. The matron
changed the subject-and the child.
Next came a duo of candidates. The
farmer held one on each knee and look
ed as though he had been suddenly
blessed with twins. They were both
blue eyed youngsters about 5 months
old. The smaller had no hair and was
rejected as ineligible. Tie other was q
lusty German type, for babies have
types quite as much as grown people,
popular opinion to the contrary notwitn-
standing. Chances were evidently bring
Ing round in favor Of this 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 farm. What
you want is a good healthy boy, whC
will soon lend helping hand to the
chores"
Il Dunno said the farmer reflective
" ''you kin make boy outen girl, 81
to apeak. for she kin help in the chores
if need be, but you can't make CIR
orten boy. They won't 90 homework
uohow.'
The matron endeavored to persuade
him otherwise. remarking in an aside
that for her part she didn't want to set
that sweet little girl put on q farm
where she might not get half an educa-
ton, and she 50 smart, too. 1t was diff
ferent with boys-they could work theii
way through better.
THE NURSERY AND ITS INMATES.
Asleep on Il corner cot was the Police
man, SO called from having come fr "a
the police station at the tender age of ;,
hours.
1--WE didn't know who his parent
were, Of course" said the matrOn to
reporter after the Iowa farmer had taEel
his departure. He was quite the home
lest sample Of a baby it has ever beel
nv ill fortune to behold. The ting re,
face. creased till it looked like the maj
of Europe, coarse red hair already spring
ing above the retreating brow, al9n
upper lip forming half of a ridiculousl,
wide mouth. and the little fists clinche
pugnaciously as though they alread
Crasped the baton of one of the finest
If ever the Policeman is adopted it Wi
surely be by a blind man. The low
farmer wouldn't Iook at him, in spite c
my seductive endeavors. Instead lie de
cided upon THE azure eyed 'Dutchv,' an
the whole tenor of one life was foreze
changed. Goodnessl Think Of the gree
ing that man will get when he return
home without the girl he was instructe
to bring and with the boy he was warne
against"
The Englewood day nursery IS an out
growth of the American Educational Al
association, a child saving organizau0
which aims to bring homeless, orphaus
2 and neglected children into juxrapos
: ton with cln,dless and charitable home
r The welfare Of the children holds pr,
eminent place in the plans and its entil
I management. They come forlom an
. often forsaken. and are cared for vi.
2 the utmost tenderness until adopted int
permanent and desirable homes. y
! one can. however, adopt a child une
the board is satisfied the home will be
e good one and the surroundings moral
) healthful. The children are not bouEh
no fee is paid upon adoption; the ooje'
is simply to save the lives and secul
true manhood and womahood to Il
n helpless waits. as we'll as to protect ii
{ state from their future care as pauPe
= or criminals. -Chicago Times