The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-23
Bah LOVES BABIES.
Our W1mllIy Friend is Fond Of the
Little Ones.


Of the Poor Appreciate Tender Care
and Bathing Baby Spirits in Cloud
Motherhood SUPERB Crown
Copyright.
New YORK. Jllv 31-The streets. the
i0--z.-rz. the windows and when the
sun goes down. the roofs are fun Of them
- mean rh1se little blossoms Of humari-
p -lz- God has sent % this earth. pure
AMI lovely. and which the iuhuua-jrv II
man and his ignorance turns into weeds.
Lutau the children Il the POOR. Wher-
ever You Turn. On the 0.he- side, there
are babies miserable babies. happy ba-
b.es. dirty babies. cleaner babies, dark
babies and white baDies-5ut none Of
them possessing that absolute cleanliness
which is -ne right Of a baby 50 many
ot them are sick these hot summer DAYS;
81 many OF them. little bits Of things. are
lying stretched out on d00rsters Easpiug
for breath either entirely alone. or less
tended oE the little mother. whose years
Of life NAV be ten, but whose years Of
knowledge are twenty. while the real
mother is busy trying 10 earn some money
il the dingy place that they call home.
These ba 5ies ~ the poor. madam. are ia
-1uor daughter has TWO nurses 70 look
after II. and is never loft alone By night
or day. and vet these little bodies came
into the world with the same right for
protection that yours has.
now CHILDREN SUPER.
In one street al midday there were
I eigh- babies all under q year old. living
. without q stitch Of clothing on them. al
/ different parts Of the pavement. for the
little mothers had left their charges. TO
. watch. with morbid curiosity. the fetch
ing ou- Of a white box and putting it in
( the white hearSe that stood by the door.
( Every day in the SIMMER YOU see that
/ badge OF mourning. the white scarf on the
/ tenement house. for tine poor make them
. selves poorer by paying 70 their dead
l respect that keeps them II debt for
months. The little mite that could no
I l1UEcr -gC- against bad air, bad food,
I Glrl and neglect gives a sigh OF relief and
( closes its eyes forever. Immediately II
; becomes q person Of Importance. The
. money that could not be spent on fresh
I milk for i when il was living is literally
I used for whisky and beer 10 wake IL,
I and next 6aE. 70 the JOY and delight Of
the entire naighoorhO0d, the poor dot ab-
[ s0iutClv has a funeral. Do 1 object 10
[ this, Certainly DO. If the same amount
Of money had been spent 10 care for il
| when il was alive. the white scarf would
I not have been on the door, and even if il
/ hadn't and the little blossom had been
[ taken away 10 bloom forever il the eter-
I Nal gardens 0t Paradise il would have
been more sensible to have placed its tired
! body i'm a little box, plain one, have it
put in carriage with its father and
I mother, and buried away OF in the cOun-
/ try ia place that suggests sweet rest,
/ rather than in gaudy, uutruthful and
| money making cemetery
Bah AMONG THE BABIES.
II was Mrs. Connolly who took me to
/ see the babies. She is trying in her qui-
J ~, DcighbOrly way 10 teach some Of the
/ mothers the beauty and desirability of
| soap and water. and she wanted a little
I announcement. Three earnest women
/ have taken q 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 and New York, are rather sur
pTised az them. They are wearing the
simplest Of ca fscO frOcks. and have q big,
bare room in which, beside the cots for
themselves. they have five or six simple
cradles. They We're there a week before
anybody knew them, but Mrs. Connolly
had been helping them al along. She IN
trOduCed some Of the mothers OF babies
10 them, and all began 10 be neighborlv,
and then the story of their scheme was
tod. II there is any mother in that
house who has to 90 out TO work or who
has to work at home and neglect the
baby. they'll take care Of it all day for
| a penny. The general idea is that they
are dressmakers who are fond Of children.
! was present when their constituents ar
rived the other day. l had gone down
with a basket OF baby clothes worn by
| more fortunate children
The hrst arrival was the oldest baby I
ever saw in my life; ne was small for
! three months. but his face looked like
that of a man Of ninety. and instead Of
crying with a beautiful. loud, hearty
scream, he gave queer little means as if
il were too much trouble 70 really tell
how unhappy he was. Birth, Italian
mother, sixteen; father. near seventy.
The very minute his mother hau gone. his
clothes were taken OF him and promptly
burned then he was given d bath and
Z as the soft sponge touched mis- poor little
thin body, ne looked up, Just as I have
seen o sick old man do when somebody,
who was knd-hearted. wiped the
perspiratiOn of his face. This old baby
was then dressed in a thin nightgOwn and
laid III one Of the cots, and in less time
than it takes TO tell. he was asleep The
next arrival was IN American baby, and
about as bad one as ] have ever seen. He
screamed from the time he entered until
all his clothes were taken of. and YOU
would have screamed, too, if you had been
dressed like him. His clothes, that were
not 50 very bad, were tied on him until
great rings We're cut in his flesh his
Z mother having been in q vicious mood
evidently. when she dressed him Like
the other he succumbed 10 the charm Of
Z the bath aud-waS soon asleep in the little
cradle in one corner of the shady old
/ fashioned room. These women under
stand the art that the poor woman does
not-that of making the room cool and