St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12
WILL GIVE HER BABIES AWAY
Because She Doesn't Want to
Drag Them Down With Her.

because She Doesn't Want to
Drag Them Down With Her.
Detroit News.
Bargains in babies! Entire stock
must be closed out at sacrifice! For
terms address Mrs. Rosetta Osburn,
care Poor Commissioner Martin.
There's woman over at our house
who has four children she wants to dis
pose of through you," were the words
the clerk al the Plankinton brought to
poor Office yesterday.
went with SUpt. Martin across to
the Plankinton, where we found in
small back room young woman, and
swarming about her, three babies, who
appeared on first sight to be
triplets. On the bed, asleep, lay a
fourth. Ones first impression
was that she must have brought up
founding asylum somewhere with
view to speculation. Her manner was
to delight the soul of Ward McAllister.
She sat three children In a row on the
edge of the bed.and they covered under
her glance and raised finger as she
commanded them not to bulge. In
a few minutes, though, there was
mutiny. The three youngsters keeled
over in perpleXing heap on the bed,
giggling and squirming, and none but
a 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 six 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 week old.
Her husband had been working on a
salary as piano tuner. and left her desti-
tute. Her own health was in condi-
ton that did not permit her remain
ing in Arkansas, where the climate
disagreed with her. On the LIST
of August she came to Muskegon
to join couple of sisters living there.
These sisters, however, are not in po-
sition to afford permanent relief.
Further On'' were the words that APP
peared to the poor woman on every hori-
ION. The day before Christmas she
packed up her few belongings and many
children and started out to find rela-
tives 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 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 a boy and girl
Faust and Fay she calls them--five
years of age. The next is a ball Of
boy, three years old. The SIX months
Old-baby is a girl,
do you want to give them all aWay?''
asked Mr.. Mardin.
II don't know what else can do" she
replied. her voice growing more and
more quiet, till it sent chiIls creeping
over me. There is no work am fitted
for. Canvassing is the only thing l
hope to do, and if somebody else can
provide good home for my children.
it is my duty to let them go. l would
be glad if the twins could be taken to-
gether."
but you wouldn't part with the
baby, would you?"
''lf l must give up one | 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 a choked ME too" sprang
into her mothers arms, her brothers en-
deavoring to make place there too;
and there the three chung, walling none
the less piteously because they did not
know the reason why they cried.
The woman appears to be one of the
ivy sort, that, however blown about by
the winds Of adversely, looks only for
means of support outside of herself.
Such women, by their inability to stand
alone, make satisfactory wives, but
wretched failures as widowed mothers.
Hor mind seems fully made up to part
ing with her babies, and on the advice
of Commissioner Martin she is waiting
two or three days before consigning
them to an asylum, hOpiog that she may
give them first-hand into the keeping of
some child-hungry hearts.