The Republican journal., 1900-11-22

SICK WO1EN WELL.
unexceptionable pedigree, whose pa
rents are both dead, and even specify
ing the color of eyes and hair required,
as if orphans were manufactured to or
der.
The first child to come under the Red
Cross protection in Galveston was Louis
Tanbusch, a sturdy little man about
two and a half years old, out-Dutching
the Dutch in appearance, but jabbering
a queer mixture of French, Italian,
German and English. He was brought
to the orphanage by an Italian, who is
known along the wharf as ''Bigga Mus
tachia." The child's dead father was a
Frenchman, and his German mother
lies in the hospital awaiting a surgical
operation. Having been left to his own
training so far in life, Louis was at
first like wild, young animal Happi-
ly, he at once took to Mr.. Lewis, who
is blessed with an abundance of tact
and patience; but to this day the little
lad will have nothing to do with women
and resents their smallest attentions
with all the power of lungs and fists.
All day long he trots about after Mr..
Lewis calling him papa in four Ian
guages, striving with all his tiny might
to help III every work his benefactor is
engaged in and regarding him with
looks of love and confidence beautiful
to behold. From nobody else will he
accept the smallest service, and if an
other undertakes to feed or put him to
bed, he makes Rome howl, to the full
limit of a powerful set of vocal organs.
In two days he became the bully of the
orphanage, easily able to take care of
himself in any squabble with his ell
ders. Now, after several weeks of
gradual civilizing, he is considerably
improved in the habits of human be-
ings; but the spiritual side is yet I'M
touched-and that will be the longest
road to travel But Mr. Lewis says that
the bright. forceful, atfectionate child
has in him the beginnings of a great
man, if he gets proper training from one
who understands his temperament
Our smallest child rejoices under a
title which. up to date, is considerably
longer than herself-no less than Mabel
Maude Elaine Spratlin-C Clara Barton,
Queen of the Orphanage. She was
born late last June, of unwedded pa
rents about whom the least said the
better, and was brought to us by a
"baby farmer who lived near the out
skirts of Galveston, until the floou
washed her lair away. The puny- pitt
ful-looking, little creature, half nourish-
ed and never cared for, was one mass of
distressing sores, from the crown of its
head to the soles of its skeleton feet-a
dreadful example of the Scriptural
warning concerning the sins of the pa
rents. She had literally been through
the flood floating in the Gulf and res
cued as by miracle-let us hope for
some good purpose in Heavens plan.
Never was seen more rapid improve
ment than this unpromising infant has
made. Now the sores are nearly healed
and the tiny skeleton begins to take ON
flesh. From its clean white cot pair
of beautiful blue eyes, set in wizzen-
ed face that might lie ages old, look out
contentedly upon the world that hither-
to used it so hardly.
Then there is little Mabel Martin,
whose start in life was almost as dis
couraging. Born a few months after
her fathers DEATH at the home of her
grandparents, ON Bernardino Prairie,
somewhere up in this big State of Texas,
her mother came to Galveston, soon
as able, in search Of work, bringing the
baby along and leaving it by day in the
care of an old woman. The storm came:
the mother persisted in trying to get to
her child, and her poor body may yet
be rotting under some of these heaps of
wreckage. The faithful old. woman
saved the baby, though in water up to
the shoulders, protecting the face by
hiding it under her chin and at last car
rying the child on her head. The mar
vel is that it did not die of cold and ex-
posure, for the woman had not dry
rag, nor anything to feed it, and no
where to go but the open camp on the
beach. There the Red Cross people
found it two days later still wet and
almost dead from cold and hunger.
Time will not permit me to tell you of !
the n other cases equally interesting; |
but we must not quite omit Tommy
Cobb, the oldest boy in the orphanage.
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