The sun., 1893-08-13
THE SMALLEST B4Br IN NEW ToEE.
she i- Fighting for Life, and the East Third
street MIX Depot Is Helping Her.

| she is Fighting for Life, and the East mira
street MIX Depot is Helping Her.
This IL story about the very smallest BABY
| In New York. II is n story with two heroines
| like Vanity Fair" The first is the baby her-
self Myra; tho other is Myra's mother Un-
like Thacker novel. this story has hero
but he will not be introduced until later
Tho first heroine is young very Young, be-
ing only nineteen m months old. 1t will be seen.
therefore, that in point OF years sho hasn't
much TO boast Of And. alas! when 1t comes to
size, Miss Myra is OF oven less CONSEQUENCE.
She really cuts a very small figure. ms she
weighs only eleven pounds. One OF the prize
babies in tho Asbury Park parade. tho
other day. weighed thirty pounds. and he was
only year old. As for little Myra, she weighed
more when she was n year old than she does
now. Then she tipped the scales at eleven and
half pounds. After that che grew thinner
and thinner until at fifteen months the mlser-
able little atom was hardly half alive.
The other heroine OF this story. Myras
mother, Is almost as interesting as the bahy.
Her story can be briefly told. Deserted by her
husband when Myra was but four m onths old.
and left with three little children, but no
money. she was finally compelled to put tho
two older ones In an orphan asylum. Then she
and littlo Myra faced the world alone The
mother makes fancy feathers for the millinery
trade Nnen Bne mas WoEk Sllc can tui IL p'' ~
81 week. This summer she has had 40 work.
She moved from the neighporhood where
she was kaSw1 IN - order sins IT, esssps 6e Hr
present neighbors think that her husband Is
dead. She has two small. bare rooms on the
from tho East River. On the fire escape Is o
childs chair covered with a queer old Gloth
Myra sits while her mother washes at tub
Just inside the window. A person unfamiliar
with tenement life Is always surprised At the
yyng gh %
orally the people haven't more than one SET Of
clothes. and there is always some one In desha-
billie while his garments are washch; -,
more attractlye baby than MyFa gr .oS..s could
being so very weak She used to say mann
ma according to her mother, with extrnor-
tS d s e'a
mnrkaby attractive i've little piece T a OF humanity,
at rs he nsG de Ten she ooFei
with peculiar EXPRESSION Of dignity, ,
There is hs w snsqd Is ndt not te
:, Il could have him arrested" shs said: but
prison. u'n He was "sa pretty man sne Went on.
with a look OF pride. Yes. / had pretty
% hen Buti I don't do Ts say yam anything It doesn't help
SO these two. Myra and her mother. struggled
ens the asylum me died d ' That II" almost In @ broke the
mothers heart. and she clung to the baby
lave ave it it live live But Il grew stendiiy thinner and
weaker. until it lay in stupor most Of the
eiin on its uni Mniortunate rti little stomach. ~
4, AT this noint the hero must be % introduced;
oh1e.i HU to figuring in that sap%Sity sti ss he
esta blished the derot at the foot Of East Third
and as m tte it M1n Tpln nq nnys
same milk depot it is not clear how Mr.. straus
'Hh Part f OF OF the milk sold by Mr.. Kincaid Mr.
Strauss agent. is sterilized. and the rest is
Just milk; Now. Myra's, mother heard about
the dock to buy a bottle. When Mr. Kincaid
and his Myra they
baby been seen on the Third street dock. it
tie Samuel Hcrskovitz had been remarked for
the the new arrival Moreover. Samuel was only
year old. while Myra was past 16 months.
bottle 1T e Of ffa mix and du,sa
water and sugar &C OF milk and tod My1as
tie e'va two 'est esme % again The milk had fa been
great success. and to record the history OF the
next ne few months Toait be simply n to repeat
had a setback: but that was the fault OF
ppeighbor who. having been left in charge of
work. fed the baby string beans. For two or
three ti days there was sharp struggle between
The amount OF good done, by the introduce
tion Of the use of steriliaed milk among the
milk depot it is sold at price which is less
than one-fourth what Is charged for it In some
other places. Mr.. kincaid has. put in the very
and for keeping the rest perfectly pure. That
the depot is appreciated is proved by the fact
milk are sold.
Women take their babies to the dock in the
breezes. while the babies; with breeze and bot.
tie. too are in the condition Of the servant
who said she hadn't no complaints to make
about 81. 1000. and occupies almost the same
site as that of Mr.. Strauss coal depot last win
ter, and the same buby carriages which then
came for coal now arrive with their load OF
hungry babies.