The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-05-17
ADOPTING CHILDREN.
SOME CURIOUS SCENES AT THE EN-
eLEWooo NURSERY.

An Iowa Farmers visit and what Came
Of It-Facnitiss Afforded Those whose
Homes Are Dssolsts for Selecting Heirs
or Hoiresses.
For a baby you calledl Why, GER
tainly. just step up stairs. Now, what
kind of baby would you prefer
"Why, my wife wants a girl baby with
blue eyes. She amt particular about the
hair being dark or light, but she don't
want no bald heads"
"Well, we haven't very large number
at present, but just look around and see
II anything suits you.
The honest farmer from Iowa did as ne
was hidden. He did not stand. as the re-
corded bit of conversation may lead some
to suppose, amid the debris of a new
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 Englewood infant nursery to
select one of the lone babies as their
"ownest own," and were going about it
as awkwardly as only men can.
The Englewood infant nursery is sim
ply a cottage at 28s Sixty-sixth street.
SELECTING BABY
The nursery-cheerful clean and sun
shiny--is upstairs IL was there we all
gathered while the Iowan searched for
a 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.
Snow, that's boy with a beautiful
eye" said the matron sdmiringly, as
little tot with black orbs aud decidedly
prominent nose was hoisted to the mans
knee.
The man looked discouraged, the
youngster poked his finger in his beau
changed the subject-and the child.
Next came 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 The other was Of
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 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 Alarm. What
you want is good healthy boy, who
will soon lend a helping hand to the
chores"
81 dunno" said the farmer reflective
ly "you kin make a boy outen a girl, SO
to speak, for she kin help in the chores
if need be. but you can't make girl
outen boy. They won't do homework
nohow."
The matron endeavored to persuade
him otherwise, remarking in an aside
that for her part she didn't want to see
that sweet little girl put on farm
where she might not get half an educR-
ton, and she so smart, too, 1t was diff
ferent with boys-they could work their
way through better.
THE NURSERY AND ITS INMATES.
Asleep on corner cot was the "Police
man." SO called from having come from
the police station at the tender age of "a
hours.
1--WE didn't know who his parents
were, of course" said the matron to {
reporter after the Iowa farmer had taken
his departure. HE was quite the home
liest sample of a baby it has ever beer
my i'll fortune to behold. The tiny rec
face, creased till it looked like the maj
of Europe, coarse red hair already spring
ing above the retreatinG brow, alonl
upper lip forming half of q ridiculouslJ
wide mouth and the little fists clinchsC
pugnaciously as though they already
grasped the baton of 'one Of the finest.
If ever the Policeman is adopted it viii
surely be by blind man. The lows
farmer wouldn't look ct him, in spite o
my seductive endeavors. Instead he de
cided upon the azure eyed 'Dutchy, anC
the whole tenor of one life was foreve
changed. Goodnessl Think of the greet
ing that man will get when he return
home without the girl he was instTucte'
to bring and with the boy he was warne'
against"
The Englewood day nursery is an out
growth of the American Educational All
association, a child saving organization
which aims to bring homeless, orphaned
and neglected children into juxtaposi
ton with childless and charitable homes
The welfare of the children holds pre-
eminent place in the plans and its entir
management. They come forlorn am
often forsaken, and are cared for wit
the utmost tenderness until adopted int
permanent and desirable homes. N
one can, however, adopt a child unit
the board is satisfied the home will be
good one and the surroundings moral
healthful. The children are not bought
no Tee is paid upon adoption; the obieC
is simply TO save the lives and secur
true manhood and womahood 10 th
helpless waits, as well as to protect tn
state from their future care as paupei
or criminals. Chicago Times.
Great Mems Ears.