The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-31


eminent Is spending millions annually
- turn youthful immigrants into good
american citizens by the public school
method. the rapidly growing million
s.-4 class Of this country is spending
rs thousands TO train its rising gene
ration in the way a good cosmopolitan
should 50.
TIE thousands and tens Of thou
sands Of foreign born children. from
Irish 10 Russian Jews. whose parents
are hocking into the United States.
viii b educated by American teachers
in American free schools The young
s.e-s born with gold-hned spoons in
their mouths viii absorb knowl-
edge from an everchanging and
Progressing line OF foreign-born tu-
tors.
The wee heiress to millions realizes
n q vague way that she has parents
There Is a big. fne-looking man, with
crows feet around his eyes. who drops
II 10 say "how-de" 10 her when he
stops of between business trips to
London or Hong Kong. or when he
comes back from a cruise around the
world. When he dies, little Miss
Millions realizes that he was busy Law
ing up treasure for her TO spend. He
was a very good father in this re-
spect
There is dream-lady who bends
over her crib occasionally in the night.
o. who comes in during the morning
Z the doctor has said that fttle Miss
Millions is not well. The oream-radv
thinks i is very lnconslderaLe of lit
tie Miss Millions TO be i'll, and very
careless Of nurse to let il happen.
Then she touches the little girls few
erish cheek with her cool. vell-mant-
cured hand. leaves the telephone num-
Der OF the house where she is helping
70 receive that afternoon. and floats
out q hlmy, cloudnks wrath in male
transparent silks and laces And little
Miss Millions cuddles down in the
faithful nurses arms and dreams Of a
fairy land where little girls have
''real mothers"
And a few years later-it seems lust
8 few because events crowd thick and
fast for little Miss MillionE-she goes
abroad and marries a title, and hears
that she has q very clever. good moth
er. She thinks IT must be so.
because everyone tells her Of il.
And so she settles down and makes
& nice, un-American American coun-
tess
It must not Re thought that the sue
cesslon Of nurses, governesses. com
panions and chaperons who guard over
little Miss Millions are Of the tyoy7-
mon, vulgar herd of servants. Far
from it. Their references and standing
must be above Teproach. Little Miss
Millions is being trained TO he a good
cosmopolitan, and the grooming pro
cess is conducted by foreigners who
can prepare her for the station which
u may please her inheritance and her
skilful mother TO place her.
If little Miss Millions is the first
horn her mother may nurse her. She
really feels some sentiment about this
first baby. Later on she finds the
maternal duty interferes too seriously
with her social engagements.
So when Miss Millions is No. . or
No. 5 she has either a wet nurse or
q trained nurse. The former is a good,
etout uotherly Irish woman, or per
haps an Italian or German The phv-
stefan decides upon her desirability.
II Miss Millions first lessons are in
the proper methods of drinking from
q bottle, then the doctor selects what
Is known as the trained infant nurse,
a graduate from a training school
whose speciality is raising babies on
the bottle II the child is very deli
cate, or the teiress TO a particularly
notable fortune, she may have two
nurses.
The trained infant nurse receives a
salary of S25 a week. and she often
has an undernuTse to perform the me
NAL nursery duties, whose salary is
$50 per month. There is no objection
TO a trained nurse of simple American
extraction, but the preference is
given TO the German trained nurse. 1t
IS not SO important, however, because
the baby is not yet able to talk. and
a little intercourse with a woman Of
her own nationality cannot be harm
ful at this stage.
When the child is year old me