Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-02-06
WILL GIVE HER BABIES AWAY.
Because She Doesn't Want TO Drag Then
Down with Her.

Because She Doesn't Want TO Drag Them
Down with Her.
bargains in babiesl Entire stock must
be closed out at a sacrifice! For terms
address Mrs. Rosetta Osburn, care of
Poor Commissioner Martin.
there's a woman over at our house
who has four children she wants to dis
pose of through you," were the words
the clerk at the Plankinton brought to
the poor Office yesterday.
went with Superintendent Martin
across to the Plankinton, where we
found in a small back room a young
woman and, swarming about her, three
babies, who appeared on first sight to be
triplets. On the bed, asleep, lay fourth.
Ones first impression was that she must
have bought up a founding asylum some
where with view to speculation. She
sat three children in row on the edge
of the bed, and they covered under her
glance and raised finger as she COM
manded them not to bulge. In few
minutes, though, there was mutiny. The
three youngsters keeled over in a per-
picking heap on the bed, giggling and
squirming, and none but mother could
have extricated one from the other.
Order again established by scattering
them in separate corners, the young
woman in her strangely quiet way went
on to tell her story.
The sleeping baby is 6 months old, and
one of pair of twins that were born but
three weeks before her husband died in
Little Rock, Ark, last July. One twin
only lived to be a week old. Her hus-
band had been working on salary as
piano tuner, and left her destitute. Her
own health was in condition that did
not permit her remaining in Arkansas,
where the climate disagreed with her.
On the 1st of August she came to Mus
kegon to join couple of sisters living
there. These sisters, however, are not in
position to afford permanent relief.
s'Further on" were the words that ap-
peared to the poor woman on every hori-
zon. The day before Christmas she pack
ed up her few belongings and many chill
dren and started out to find relatives of
her husband, little of whom she knew,
saved that they lived in Simcoe, Canada.
Still further on! These people could not,
or would not, provide for her or her wee
ones, and, every door shut in her face,
there was nothing left to her but the
world. The world is a hopelessly large
field for one incapable woman and four
babies to look for home in, and Friday
she arrived at the Plankinton with just
$40 between her and starvation. The two
Oldest children are boy and girl-Faust
and Fay she calls them-5 years of age.
The next is ball of boy, 8 years old.
The 6-months-old baby is girl
"Do you want to give them all away?"
asked Mr. Martin.
81 don't know what else can do, she
replied, her voice growing more and more
quiet, till it sent chills creeping over me-
"There is no work am fitted for. Can
vassing is the only thing hope to do,
and if somebody else can provide good
home for my children ibis my duty to
let them go. Iwould be glad if the twins
could be taken together"
"But you wouldn't part with the baby,
would your"
"If must give up one I can give up
ALL" At last the emotion that she had
suppressed broke through the ice of her
demeanor and she burst into tears. The
baby faces about grew solemn as they
watched her, and finally the little girl,
with choked "me too," sprang into her
mothers arm, her brothers endeavoring
to make place there too, and there the
three clung, wailing none the less pite-
ously because they did not know the rea-
son why they cried.
The woman appears to be one of the
ivy sort, that, however blown about by
the winds of adversely, looks only fol-
means of support outside of herself. Such
women, by their inability to stand alone,
make satisfactory wives, but wretched
/ failures as widowed mothers. Her mind
seems fully made up to parting with hei
babies, and on the advice of Commissioner
Martin she is waiting two or three days
before consigning them to an asylum
hoping that she may give them first HAND
into the keeping of some child hungry
hearts.-Detroit News.