The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-06

OF as if a pestilence ragged in the
| place.
All that has been changed now. As
the result of the investigation institut-
ed about three years ago by the State
| Charities Aid Association and the So
| ciety for Improving the Condition OF
| the Poor, the babies are left in care OF
institutional charity no longer than is
| necessary. They are kept in Bellevue
Hospital under treatment only till
| homes are found where they can have
| proper LuI sing and almost a mothers
care.
In the past year after the change
was made the death rate among the
babies fell more than So per cent. the
next year it fell 81 per cent more. Now
less than 10 per cent of these waits of
the streets die.
Little difficulty is found in providing
homes for the babies. The State Chari-
| ties Aid Association and the Guild of
| the Infant Saviour which have the
work III charge do quite rushing mail
order business in babies. Inquiries for
| healthy eligible foundlings come from
all over the country.
One recent application for girl baby
came from the Mayor of a Massachu-
sets town and it described exactly
what kind of baby was wanted It-or
AoNAiCl SA4S-N DIS W nave Dluc eyes anu
fair hair and she might be of amy age
from fifteen months to years. The
Mayor got the baby.
From as far West as Denver and as
far South as Alabama have come the
requests for babies. Here is one order
from co!ored family in Pittsburg
which is still waiting to be filed
Boy, anywhere under years old,
not black. Must be light colored."
Passengers on a certain Eastern
bound sleeper passing through Gin
cinnati from the South a few DAYS
ago were treated to a quaint and
amusing comedy. The train had left
cincinnati and was stopping at one
of the little towns along its outskirts.
when the Indifferent passengers were
aroused to sense of something inn
portant going on on the platform. A
carriage was standing there berib-
boned and regal in flowers and flags
Nearly the entire population of the
village was clustered about the car
riage, and alighting from it were the
principal actors themselves.
She was young and coy, says the
Philadelphia Times and rather pretty.
he tall and narrow chested with a
shiny Prince Albert and a white tie
Which SEEMED TO snow strong desire
to choke him. They moved toward
the train with the crowd laughing and
|. shouting at their heels.
Everybody in the train stuck his
head out of the window to watch and
the babel of voice in the station grew
louder and louder. Suddenly the young
husband made a dart, a dodge, a
spring, and with his bride held firm
ly by the waist slipped past his tor
mentors and entered the coach There
was cry of disappointment from the
platform, and then a pleasant faced
traveller, with a funny little cap on
his head, and glasses, put his head out
of the window.
Give me your old shoes and things"
he said, amiably "I'll throw them at
them in here"
1--WE havn't any Shoes" answered a
young lady. ruefully; but we brought
bags upon bags of rice with u.s."
Pass them in" said the traveller,
and in a twinkling every passenger
on the train stretched out expectant
hands and gathered in bags of the
flaky substance.
BY this time the young couple were
we'll inside the coach. The young hus-
band turned toward the window with
a leer of triumph, when, almost in his
face, and certainly down his collar
! descended a shower of white flakes.
This is from some of your friends