Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28

Moscow river and in the very heart of thi,
city of 100000 people. The buildings are
vast four-storv structures, built in the
shape OF hollow square about a garden
which contains, perhaps, an acre of tree.
and lawn, into which, on these bright sum.
mer davs, the children are brought to take
their airing.
l visited the establishment this afternoon.
The gorgeous imperial servant, in his red
and gold livery, took my card at the big
front door and a long-gowned, shock
headed boy ran with it to one of the
matrons l was directed to the door of the
garden, and a little trim lady of perhaps %
years took NE in charge and showed me
over the whole institution. She spoke a
little English and much German, and she
talked about the babies as we walked
through the garden.
This garden was cut up by long, wide and
well-sbaded walks, and these walks were
filled with the nurses and their babies
Each baby has her own wet nurse and
along each walk were two lines of these
nurses, each with baby, and the whole
garden was filed with such sights There
we're hundreds upon hundreds of these
nurses-buxom young peasant girls of IS
years old and upward, all dressed in their
best clothes, for it was Sunday afternoon,
and all wearing the picturesque caps of the
institution These caps are nurses caps of
blue, green or red, which are as full as Tam
O'Shanter caps at the top, but which fit
tight about the forehead and which are set
rather on the back of the head, so as not to
hide the forehead. The dresses of these
hundreds of maiden nurses are cut low at
the neck, and standing at one end of one of
these walks you look along line of 800
white necks shining out under the bright
caps and bordered by white yokes from
which lull gowns fall
A Thous nd Russian MadonnaS
At first you cannot notice the dresses for
the interest you take in the nurses and
babies and their feeding, but as Won grow
used to this YOU note that each girls dress
is much the same The sleeves. full at the
shoulders, are short and leave the arms bare
to the blceps. The waists are full and half
open at the front and the skirts, gathered in
at the wais, ,are short and do not reach to the
ankles. The caps are of different colors but
OF the same shape, and the girls are of all
types OF Russian beauty and LONELINESS
Hundreds OF them are blondes and the
faxen-haired, blue-eyed beauties of the
Northern provinces are we'll represented
Hundreds have the rosy cheeks that you
find along the Neva and Upper Volga, and
mere ana tnere you see the Qark eyes and
brunette faces which are found further
south. As / stool upon the steps, at one
eud of the garden, could see fully 1000
Of these girls in the garden below me.
Think OF It'll A thousand Russian Madonnas
not in oil or water colors, but in living,
glowing flesh and blood; thousand babies
performing their part in the picture; and all
this IN ier one Of the brightest skies and in
one Of the prettiest gardens of the
world. 1t was, in truth, sight worth CON-
ing 10 Russia to see.
As We walked through the garden the
nurses saluted us. The young matron
bowed to them and we raised our hats as we
entered one OF the walks, and at that mo-
nent the 100 red and blue caps bowed down
10 us. The girls bow from the waist and
not with nod of the head, as we do. They
are not ashamed of their business, and they
nold I'D their babies for US to look at as we
pasG The nurses seem to be fond of their
aabies, and would like to show il I can
IS; how one of these Russian babies is
aared Tor
Cribs for the Youngsters.
Behind each nurse along these walks
stood little iron crib, and these cribs are