The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-13
THE JACKSON STREET NURSERY.
Twenty-Five Babies Taken Care OF
at that Place.

ladies and several gentlemen | visit
ed the nursery on Jackson street,
near the wooden mills. In this nur.
sery | spent one hour and now give
few things and facts as | saw
them Twenty-Five babies from six
weeks to eleven years old. Child.
rem and babies not responsible for
their condition in life. As such let
US hea- their pleading call to human
sympathy and human aid.
There lies baby pale, emaciated
sui 4ring, apparently siN months
old-father dead, IN other abandon
ed it to take up the wick I'd shame
ful If. of the world, There an :
other lies, father unknown, and
whose mother occupies drundard 8
bed upon county farm. Here is
another whose father still lives and
whose mother resides beyond the
reach of "reined charity" The
father discouraged and ruined,
brings his child to the kindly char
ity of the world. Here are four
children whose mothers have aban-
doned them for baser life, ruined
and discouraged on account of a
dissolute and unfaithful husband
and father.
Twenty i've human being. with
histories, with souls, with human
destinles. who shall receive our aid
or % down into darkness, degrala.
ton and ruin, following in the foot.
steps of father or mother, and land.
hiding in houses of prostitution or
prison, or paupers' beds or the gal.
lows. All are candidates for some
of these places unless the kind hand
Of charity is held out by strong
arms Of humanityloving m .nkind,
and they are placed benea n these
human beings by our ad. Can we
allow such under the very shadow
of plenty and even opulence? Can
we turn deaf ear to the cries of
these struggling, helpless human
being? Cannot these flick ering
lights be oiled and trimmed? Can
not We take these twenty fi1e and
other helpless human beings from
the path Of ruin and help the noble
work and sell sacrificing spirit of
the woman whose great charity of
heart is borne Sin the darkness and
in the light" Mrs. j. G. Melon
aid?
lake this scene |. is midnight.
the II ckeri1g light throws leathly
shadows mid the lonely gloom in
the room. Here is a woman with
one child in her arms, with raging
fever. over on the bed is another
child whose life seems fading way
like the dying lily. There is another
gasping for its asst breath over in
the crib. A sound at the door;
stranger enters arriving on mid.
night train. Here are four" says
the stranger. eve have come be.
cause We have heard of your shelter.
ing arms, where the helpless have
relief. Take these little ones,
whose mothers have abandoned them
TO the cold charity of the world.
Will You not save Them"
What shall we do with these
precious sparks Of life: VINO is to
care for them: These little waits
must not die. Mrs. Mcdonald is
doing as much and more than hu.
man strength can reasonably bear.
AS l looked a. these little ones SO
dependent, l asked this question:
How can these little ones live, and
who will care for them should this
life and strength give way? Who
Will support and care for them?
Why cannot such lad es as
Mesd ,mes William Cameron, Z
Rotan, William Slayden, Sam
Sanger, r. b. Parrot, r. w.
Beaumont, G. c. McCulloch, VIM.
kellett, J. NJ. Carroll, w. w.
Seley, w. D. Lacy and Mrs. VIM.
PratheS come to the rescue?
Cannot they meet together
and d:v!se some means,
some sheltering arm to aid in this
work! Cannot they care for them
with the help of other ladies who
would willingly contribute were the
facts known? Suppose these ladies
meet and appoint committee of
their own number to visit this nur-
serv. learn the histories of these