The morning call., 1892-08-28

ops, and as saw the dressing going on l
looked IN vain for safety pins and the other
little tortnres which have seen in Anier-
can baby-dressing. The baby is wrapped
around In soft linen clothes. its legs being
close together and its little red body swad-
died up TIL 1t looks for all the world like a
Dig rag baby, with the exception Of where
It's little red face and its bright eyes
peep out of the white linen. As | looked
at this baby being dressed | asked the
young matrOn if they had any bottle babies
on the grounds, aud if some of the babies
were not brought up by hand" A lock OF
horror and disgust came over her face, and
she replied that they did not consider such
methods of baby farming good or right. and
that each baby had its own nurse. She had
apparently never heard of our patent baby
foods, and the pretty faces of the bottle
babies which appear as the result of particu-
lar combinations in our magazine advertise
ments would surprise her. The Russian
babies of this Institution know nothing of
lone cows milk" Of Gail Borden's eagle
brand or barley water, and they get
through their infancy without being expert
mented upon. by doctors and parents.
great part Of The establishment is on
the cottage plan. The babies sleep on the
ground floor, and at the end Of each nurses
bed stands one OF the little cribs. They
are never allowed to sleep with their nurses
and the greatest care is taken that all of the
surroundings should be healthy. The rooms
are well ventilated, and there are rooms in
which prematurely born babies are kept,
which are, as 1t were, incubating rooms.
These are heated by steam, and are kept at
what L judge is about 20 degrees 1t is
and the babies are taken = to cooler
aud cooler rooms as the recover
from sickness. 10 the iucubating rooms
/ saw. score or so of babies in COPPER
tubs so made that hot water running around
their double walls kept the interior at al
most blood heat. In these were babies
born two or three months before their time.
These were wrapped in cotton and they
hardly seemed alive, but / could note the
quiYerlOg Of their eyelidS as the matrOn
opened the glass tops of the tubs. The most
of such cases are, am told, successful, and
/ Judge that If baby has any chance of
existence when ste comes here she lives
The babies are washed once a day in bath
tubs Of copper, and / noted that in the
bottom Of each tub there was pillow on
which the baby was placed and that its
sides were padded with soft flannel.
About 90 new babies are received on the
average by this institution every day, and
all Da0leS are taken and no questions asked
They are sometimes left on the steps of the
institution, but more often are brought by
their mothers OF some friend. If the mother
has name for the child she writes il on a
card and this name is given II, and al the
same time 1t Is regis tered with number,
aud corresponding number is given TO the
mother. This number is written on little
round tag OF bone, and IL is tied around the
neck of the child, aud by this number it
goes in the institution. If the mother
wants it again she can bring back her check
and get her baby. and she csn claim ii at
any time up TO the age of 10 years. The
babies are kept in this institution
only four weeks, and after this
time the nurses who are in charge
of them take them TO their homes in
the villages and there bring them up. Each
nurse gets 81 month for SUCH service, and
she is under the supervision Of the doctor
Of the district. and has to report her baby
to bim from time to time. At the age of
about years the children are brought back
to the institution and are educated. They
are taught trades and at 10 90 out to work
for themselves. Some OF the girls are taken
back as officers, and they are trained as hos
pital nurses. Many of the boys 90 into the
army. and there are $50 of them annually
admitted to the industrial schools of Mos
cow. If a girl gets married before she is of
age the institution gives her her tr0usseau,