The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-31
That Had Il Nanny" Goat
Mother.
SIZE FED BABES AND HER YOUNG ONES
According to Traveller Who Visited the
Kid Ranch,

baths here and Sho is travelling in
Texas "to see the country" read
notice in Tng News the other day
about the Childrens Home, and as
he is yery fond OF children himself,
Notwithstanding tho fact that he is
d COT tirmed b,cnelOr on the down
hill SIDE of life, he often takes
pleasure il studying their ways and
doings Ia f act, he is regular reader
of cnildren's papers, for which
he sometimes contributes. He was
telling anecdotes about possible
future presidents and their wives
last night when he told the follow.
ing funny story Of ''baby farm" in
Massachusetts;
81 was travelling in New England
and was visiting number of the
manufac. uripg cities, when l came
to Lynn, where | remained some
time. was irquiring about the
INDUSTRIES Of that place and very
intelligent workman in shoe
factory, who was giving me the in
formation, closed by saying: But
forgot to tell you about very
thriving infant industry. This is
baby farm, about three miles out of
town. AS you are so fond of
children, you should 90 and see it,
If did so. found the infant
industry located at farm, where
there was good orchard, COWS and
lots of chickens. AS opened the
gate l was struck with the neatness
of the grounds and general cleanli-
ness of everything The trees were
whitewashed as was everything in
the way of gates and fences abou1
the place.
"The place was conducted by two
elderl y unmarried ladies Of charita.
bic notions, who had some means
and, like most New England folk,
had to have mission, vocation,
calling, or whatever you choose to
call it. People up there are 80 en-.
ergetic and have such active
brains that they must be doing
something to keep occupied.
"Well, these two ladies were
very old fashioned, not Puritanical
at all, but rather prim, sedate aud
demure. Oae bore the quaint old
name of P1rbe, while the Other
had the practical name of Emme-
line. Phuoe was plump and rudy,
while Emmeline was the contrary
and not communicative. Phoebe was
and she showed me through the
place with good humor, chatting
pleasantly all the time.
eve went all over the place and
finally came to garden in the back
yard, where all the babies, except
the little bits of ones, We're summing
themselves in charge of hired girl,
who, with her sister, assisted the
maiden ladies in taking care of the
kid ranch. AS we entered the
garden big white nanny goat,
followed by two bleating kids, came
running up to Pho be, who caressed
the animal, when seemed to be de.
lighted and showed its appreciation
by playfully butting against the
lady- apron.
NJ So Phoebe looked archly at
me out of her big blue eyes, blushed
and then laughed heartily. This
she said, 'is the real mother of those
little ones pointing to the half
dozen children. She thinks as
much of them as she does of her own
babies
"Just then fat, healthy.looking
boy baby gave loud, shrill scream,
which was echoed by the whole
brood. The little fellow held it's
hands out to where we were stand
ing, when the nanny goat cried
and sprang toward it with a bound.
The LADY crawled up to where the
goat stood, caught the goat by enc
leg, while the two kios joined it,
and all were soon imbibing tae
stream of life from the same source.
The goat would lick them all, baby
and goats, aud seemed TO show no
partially. While the lucky baby
was thus pleasantly engaged the