Omaha daily bee., 1892-08-28

dustrial schools of Moscow. If a girl gets
married before she becomes Of age the nsti-
tuition gives her her trousseau, ana alto
gether foundlngs are better treated in Rus
sia than in any other country in the world.
Their treatment, however, after they are
sent out into the villages to be nursed is not
SO good as 1t is here and the statistics show
that fully balf of all these babies die before
they are year old, and the science of baby
raising over the whole of Russia is in such a
backward state that one-fourth of all the oa-
Dies born in the empire die before they are
twelve months of age. Forty-tWo per cont
die before they are i've years old, and still
the yearly crop Of children so great that
the population Of Russia according to the
statistics of the Statesman's Year Book is in
creasing at the rate of 1000, OOJ year. In
European Russia alone there are every year
l.6O0,O00 more babies than there were the
year before, and more than 000 COO babies
are born here every year. Russia has high
death rate, but these peasants breed like
Australian rabbits ana they like large faml-
lies. Nearly every woman you see in the
country has baby at her breast and tow
headed young ones Of all ages swarm in the
villages. is.t
The most of these babies of Moscow come
from the city and the most of them are ille-
| gitimate. There are 10 per cent more ilegiti-
mate births in Moscow than there are in Paris,
butt is said that there is little or no infanti-
| eide here and the probability is the statistics
| OF PARIS do not represent the true social state
OF that city in this regard. l am told that
mothers often bring their ba bes to this insti-
tuition and afterwards apply to tho establish =
ment foi places as wet nurses and thus man
age to get hold of their own BABIES and get
paid feeding them
At the Receipt OF Children.
watched the bringing in of the babies
and saw number sent into the country.
The receiving room was about twenty feet
square and in the center OF one side of it, be-
hind low table, sat an intelligent Russian
girl with ledger before her. AT one side Of
her was pair of large scales, for all the
world like pair OF grocer's scales in which
sugar is weighed, and before her stood another
Of tho matrons with tnpe measure thrown
over her shoulder. ASH stood in the room l
took out my watch and timed the taking
IN of a half dozen babies. These
were brought in within twenty minutes
ana 1t did not tako more than three minutes
at the outside TO register wash and take
care OF each Of them. Their mothers, l sup
pose, brought the babies in. One was
pretty Russian peasant sRlrl, who came Ia
her bare feet with a ouhdle in ber arms. She
took this TO the table and HANDED slip of
paper on which was written the name of the
baby to the bookheeper. She was asked
the cate OF its birth aud was then given a
check with a number on 1T, and her baby
was handed over to the girl with the tape
measure. This girl unwrapped the little
one in a iiffy and laidit, squalling on the
scales. She then gave It's weight to the
pOOkheeDer. anu Iuhlhf tue tape measure
from her shoulders ran IL around the head
OF tho baby, noted tho size OF 1t and then
measured It's length. from crown TO sole.
These figures were put down and the infant
was carried of, naked as 1t was, into the
next room and handed over to the washer.
First, however, It's check Of white bone
bearing It's number was tied about It's neck,
! aud it from this time lost its name and be-
came NUMBER
Let us follow IL as / did and SEQ how 1t Is
taken care Of In the next room an old
lady was washing BABY that was brought
in hve minutes earlier. She speaks TO the
girl who brings tue new BABY in and the
baby is dropped gently on a padded table
and loft a second while number one is
dressed. IL continues 10, squall and kick as
II lies there for i've seconds on its back, but
stops suddenly Us the old lady picks it up. 1t
starts up again as she lays 1t Ia the copper
bathtub lined with fannei. This has warm
water IN 1t and into il more warm water is
flowing. With soap the Old lady quickly
washes the baby aud In ten seconds by my
watch she has cleaned every part Of its body.
She now raises II in her hands and lays 1t on
dry padded table. She dries its red limbs
with q soft towel and puts little long shirt
on It's body. Then comes the diaper, which