Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-12
TEDDIE MAKES HOME PLATE
Lingsu on Third Base Some Time Waiting
for Winning Hit
SCORES ON LONG DRIVE BY DAILY BEE
Fanatics in the Grand stand shower
Him with Gifts and cOngrntu-
Iations After He Passes
the Rubber.

That human life which was to be had
Tor the asking has been asked for and re-
ceived. Teddie, the founding. has a home.
At 4 o'clock Friday afternoon he was
still the undesired property Of Mrs. F. M.
Benedict, housekeeper Of the double nat at
1702-4 Webster street, on the third floor
Of which he had been found by Mrs. Hart
man, a roomer. Wednesday night.
In the central section Of the very build
ing in which the baby was found, and in
which II led It's precerious existence yes
lterday, live MIR. and Mrs. George Clark,
who have been married some years, but
are without children. Mrs. Clark was es-
,pecially busy Friday morning and by
the merest chance the story of the waif
did not reach her ears. That is, It didn't
reach her ears until her husband came
tracing home an hour earlier than usual
and with a copy Of The Bee huttering in
his hand. He read the story aloud, there
WAS a hurried committeeman the Clarks
went DOWN to see the parentless infant,
land incidentally to see Mrs. Benedict.
Infant n Promising s~trateEist.
y Teddie seemed to realize the significance
Eof the visit and proved himself a very
promising strategist. When Mrs. Clark
held him he gave pathetic little walls that
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mr.. Clark held him he gurgled. which was
the best he could do by way Of a laugh.
and grabbed firm hold Of an unlighted
cigar that happened to come within his
reach. That settled 1t with Clark. And as
his wife had already made UP her mind,
Teddie, the founding, then and there be-
came Teddle Clark and was carried up to
his new home In his new papa's arms, with
his new mamma trailing along at his side
with his new milk bottle and a new line
of "goo-goo" conversation.
Friday night the other roomers In the nat
heard the story and Teddie had his first
birthday party. It was twenty days late,
but none the less successful. The men all
came and laughed over him, and the women
all came and cried over him, and when
they went away they left IS for Teddie's
future uses.
Public Interest I'm Babies.
Mrs. Benedict has been forced to change
her opinion OF the public interest in babies.
At 4 o'clock Friday, after being repeat
eddy turned Town by the police. county
commissioner and charitable institutions,
she concluded that infants had come to be
a drug on the market. But within an hour,
OF very soon after the Clarks had secured
Teddie, she began receiving notes, tele-
phone calls and messages from people who
had read Of the child and were willing to
take it; some because they wanted 1t, and
some because they couldn't bear to think
of 1t in the cheerless light of a shifting pub
lie burden. There were numerous calls at
the police station. also, and two women
who came from South Omaha expressly to
get that baby wept when told that It was
not TO be had. One infant, II appears, can
move more women's hearts than all the
philosophy In the books.
The Child Saving institute superintendent
has promised to secure the Clarks with a
written bill of adoption.