Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-23

ance. The money that could not be
spent on fresh milk for il when it is
living, is literally used for whisky and
beer TO wake 1t, and next day. to the
joy and delight of the entire neighbor-
hood, the poor dot absolutely has a flu
neral. DO | object to thisI Certainly
10. If the same amount of money had
been spent to care for 1t when It was
alive, the little white scarf would not
have been ON the door, and even if il
had, and the little blossom had been
taken away To bloom forever IN the etcr-
nal gardens of Paradise, it would have
been more sensible to have placed its
tired body In little box, plain one.
have II put IN carriage with It's father
and mother and buried away off in the
country in a place that suggests sweet
rest. rather than in a gaudy, untruthful
and mOney-making cemetery.
Bah AMONG THE BABIES.
1t was Mrs. Connolly who took me to
see the babies. She is trying in her quiet,
neighborly way to teach some of the
mothers the beauty and desirAbility of
soap and water, and she wants little
encouragement, Three earnest womea
have taken room down near her, and
the neighborhood, who doesn't dream
that they are three women whose names
are well known as fashionable ones
in London aud New York, are rather
simplest of calico frocks, and have q
big. bare room In which, besides the
cots for themselves, they have five or
six simple cradles They We're there
week before anybody knew them, but
Mrs. Connolly had been helping them NIL
along She introduced some Of the moth
crs OF babies to them. and all began to
be neghborly, and then the story of
their schemG--was told. II there Is a
mother In that house who has to go
out to work or who has 10 work at home
aud neglect the baby, they'll take care of
il all day for a penny, and, between you
and me, / think they would take u
without the penny. The general idea Is
that they are drcssmakers who are fond
of children. i was present when their
constituents arrived the other day. l
had gone down with q basket OF baby
clothes worn 10y more fortunate children,
The first arrival was the oldest baby
ever saw In my life; he was small Tor
three months, but his face looked like
that of man Of ninety, and instead OF
crying with beautiful, loud. hearty
scream, he gave queer little means as
II it were too much trouble to tell how
he was. Birth, italian; mother,
sixteen; father near seventy The very
minute bis mother bad gone. his clothes
were taken OFF him and promptly burn
ed; then he was given a bath, and; as
INV sNAt Fl'AFf ADuNHNN hlH 49, .'f'A'
thin body he looked up, just as | have
seen sick old man do when somebody,
who was kindhearted, wiped the perspir-
alton on his face. This old baby was
then dressed In thin nightg0wn and
laid in one of the cots. and. In less time
than il takes TO tell It. he was asleep,
The next arrival was an American baby,
aud about as bad one as ! have ever
seen. He screamed from the time he
entered until his clothes were taken off,
and yon would have screamed. 100, If
Won had been dressed like him. His clothes
that were not so very bad. We're tied on
him until great rings We're cut In the
flesh. Ills mother having been a vicious
mood. evluently, when She dressed him.
ike the other, he succnmbed 10 the
charm OF the hath and was soon asleep
in the little cradle in the corner Of the
shady. old-fashoned room. These women
the art that the poor woman
does not-that Of making room cool
and sweet.
PRACTICAL HELP EXTENDED
The little cots were all filled, and there
was silence expressive Of great. JOY whrn
tho last baby Of all came IN. My frehns'
II was a living breathing, horrihle sKf
denoe OF tho truth that the sins 81 me
fathers descend lp,n the children lhto
the third and fourth generation. y Nas |
n lr.ass 81 disease, and yet II was dear 20 |
The wretchedloOking woman who bfoneut |
ii IN. ana who anew so little how 10 take
care az II Even these brave women |
ahr.t.t from touching ID. but one OF !