The Washington times., 1901-11-22
FOUNDING BABES
ANNUAL AT HOME.
TOTS ATTIRED IN THEIR BEST.
Many Callers Received Mt the Hos
pital on Fifteenth Street-Hsc-
full Presents From Phiinn-
thropic Patrons.

The babies Of the Founding Hospital
gave their annual tea yesterday afternoon.
The twenty-eight tots who are cared for
so tenderly in their town house on Fiji
teenth Street were as fresh and pretty
as the blossoms that adorned the lower
floor. Some of them were "at home in
the reception hall, each in white frock,
with shoulder knots of bright ribbon.
Babies not so large, and, incidentally, not
so reliably good, were carried about from
room to room by pretty nurses in pic
turesQue uniforms OF white and blue.
Up il the big, airy nursery there were
rows of white cribs lining each side of the
wall. In each lay a crumb of humanity
in its white slip adorned with its dainty
bow. MI wore bootees of soft white
wool and were covered with eiderdown
blankets of alternating pinks and blues
that gave touches Of delicate color to the
general whiteness of the room.
Some of these little ones laughed,
kicked, and crowed for the benefit Of their
admiring visitors; others ga2ed with that
inscrutable solemnity peculiar TO babies
alone, while two melancholy mites dis
tinguished themselves by wailing from the
beginning of the reception to its end.
Slept During the Gayety.
Sensible infants slept profoundly
throughout and others sucked their
thumbs contentedly, but refused to other
wise partake TO any perceptible extent in
the mild gayety about them. The major
ity were bald, one was as dark-haired as
an Indian, and a dozen or so were very,
very red. These bits of creatures are
seldom given a fair chance for life. and
it is owing only to the careful treatment
given them at the hospital that the death
rate has been so low. Within the past
year twenty of them have been legally
adopted by people well able to care for
them, which accounts for the unusually
small number on view at yesterdays tea.
Mrs. Mckinley was much interested in
the babies, and yesterday for the first
time since she first came TO Washington
there were no flowers from the White
House to add to the charm of the after
noon. The first and second floors were
elaborately decorated with holly branches
and Christmas vines, and the stairway
was twined with garIands of crowfoot
and other woodland greens.
Music by Pretty Girls.
Music was furnished by a half-dczen
pretty girls, with guitars and violins. Re
freshments were sold, as usual, at tables
grouped about large room on the first
floor. Each was decked with flowers. and
everywhere there were lamps and candles
burning under pink and crimson shades
The ladies in charge of the various tables
were:
Candy-Mrs. L. B. Platt. Miss Helen
Hurst, Miss Sewers. Miss Cobb, Miss Pos
| tlethwaite, Miss Wills Miss Sadie Brlttou,
and Miss Hemmick.
Salad--Alrs. r. G. Rutherford. Mrs. A.
Howard Clark and the Misses Dorothy
and Mary Smart.
Cake-Mrs. A. T. BrttOn, Mrs. a. lis
ner, Mrs. T. F. Schneider, Mrs. Richard
Sylvester. and Mrs. J. " Whitney.
Pouring coffee-irs. J. V. Barross and
Miss Portner
Flowers-Mrs. Joseph Auerbach, Miss
Beatrice Hawley, Miss Selma Harris, and
Miss Rae Holm.
Mrs. W. p. KeIlog and Mrs ]. c. Pen
ME received the donations, which the gen.
erous callers brought with them in such
quantities as to give a grocery store ap-
pearance to the front hall and Miss Susan
Brltton and Mrs. J. c. Smithe received the
money In the tea room. The guests. among
whom were many women prominent in the
philanthropic and social world, were re-
ceiyed by Mrs. Simon Wolf, the President
Of the Board Of Lady Visitors.