Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-11
TEDDIE IS ONLY A DEUCE
Nobody Seems to Want Him, but he is
Hard to Discard.
MAKES FULL HOUSE FOR HIS PossESsoH
Age Player lake n Flush and Then
Passes, Leaving the Next Hand
Full, but nab
60 Ante.

A human life is to be had for the asking.
The destiny Of a child will be given into
the hands Of the first who is willing to
accept II. Mrs. F. NJ. Benedict, housekeeper
and department commander OF a double fiat
at 10000 Webster street, has a baby that
she doesn't mother, doesn't know, doesn't
want, doesn't have time to care for and
doesn't propose to keep.
He was left at the door Of Mrs. Annie
Hartman, a roomer on the third floor Of the
corner fiat, some time between $3.50 and
1890 Wednesday night. His apparel was
clean and fairly good and he was wrapped in
his own tiny cloak, with a new milk bottle
and other trappings at his side. There was
also a note, which reads:
OMAHA, Neb., Dear Frlends-Please be
kind to little Teddie, VINO was born on
June %, 1902. His mother was led astray.
She is weakly now and unable to take him
to the child Saving institute on Eighteenth
and Ohio, and hopes that you will take him
there, for she knows he will have a good
home there Pray oblige a heart-br9ken
: Gods blessing. Goodby.
Passes with n Flush.
When Mrs. Hartman came home and
found this accumulation at her threshold
she took inventory and concluded there was
nothing in it that she had any use for.
Promptly she descended to Mrs. Benedict's
office on the first floor and deposited the
bundle on a couch, advising that the police
be notified. Mrs. Benedict, who already
carries a considerable burden OF woes, acted
on the suggestion. The police, however,
replied that with criminals in the cells and
newspaper reporters in the office, they had
all the trouble they could care for and
suggested that the county commissioner
were the ones to call on. The commits
sioners were gone hours before, and Mrs.
Benedict spent the night in wrathful pa
rade with the waillng infant In her arms.
Early yesterday she resumed her tele-
phoning, The county commissioners were
extremely sorry, but could give no relief.
They proposed the Child Saving institute.
The Child Saving institutes superintendent
reported that a tall and weakly woman with
such an infant had called the day before
and had been refused, because her story
seemed untrue.
Hold Full Hands.
Mrs. Benedict was getting wrathy. A
number of young women came in from diff
ferent parts of the house to hold" the
waif Of presidential name, but not to, ask
permanent possession. All pitied him, but
none wanted him. Finally, one mentioned
the Salvation Army home at Twenty-fourth
and spaulding. Mrs. Benedict took the
child In one hand, a small satchel in the
other. and went there.
At 1880, painting and perspiring, she re-
turned with the dimlnutive elephant still
on her hands. The home is full. Every
door seems closed against the little chap
whose coming into the world was not OF
his own %volition and whose departure from
1t seems an early possibility II he does not
receive very tender care very soon. Mrs.
Benedict hints Of a determination to call
at the office of the city Board of Health,
deposit the child on Clerk Barker's desk
and let the latter do the rest Of the worry
ing.