Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-14

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whom the real mother wanted back. The
baby had grown to love its foster mother
| after more than a year IF tender care
Mrs. Celia Kipp, Is years old. is the
real mother of the child. which is named
| Ralph. The foster mother of Mrs. Fan
ME Nollman, 30 years old. Shortly be-
| fore the baby was born Mrs. kiDo went
| to Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Nollman was
! there, too. in an adjoining bed. Mrs.
| Nollman, having no children of her own.
| cravcd for baby, while Mrs. Kipp was
then in such circumstances that she
feared she could not properly care for
| her expected child. The result was that
was born. TO give it to Mrs Ncllman to
| keep, and this arrangement was carried
| out.
Mrs. Kipp recently demanded the re-
turn of her child. but Mrs. Nollman re-
| fused to give it up.
II am not going TO part with Baby
! Ralph said Mrs. Nollman. I've taken
care of him since he was ten days old.
! and he's more attached TO me titan to his
mother. | love him as dearly as if he
was my own
But the mother has the best claim to
her own child" said Magistrate Pool.
You must give him up"
| Mrs. VOllman finally handed the baby
! to its mother and departed in tears.
| If report speaks true Mrs. Clarence
| Mackay and Miss Maude Adams have
| found a field on which they soon will
come together in keen rivalry. The in
! fluence and charm of the society woman
will be matched against that welded by
the stage favorite, and while scores Of
| prominent men and women behind the
| scenes where prepare tons now are be-
ing made for a feminine duel are watch
| ing the developments with closest inter
est. one and all express thankfulness
| they are not to be called upon to deliver
/ the final verdict
This ungratefuI task will devove upon
the educational authorities at Albany
| The fight is to be waged over the seec-
| tion of Il site for the new state normal
school on Long Island. Mrs. Mackay,
| il is said is back of n movement i'm fa-
Hor of having it established at AIineola,
and already an anonymous subscription
Of $500, with a promise of more to come
| if the need arises. is popularity credited
to her. Miss Adams is in the forefront
of the battle in behalf of the claims of
| Lake Ronkonkoma, where she owns
country estate.
4 fund already has been organized by
the residents i'll and near Afne0la for the
purchase of Il site to be given the state
! if the state chooses Mineola for the
| school. Miss Adams. on her side, OPEN
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school to Ronkonkoma and L. Hollis
| Newton of that district not only headed
1.-THE subscription list with $500. but prom
| Used to give a suitable site of about ten
acres for the purpose.
Mrs. Mackay's interest in school affairs
| in this neighborhood long has been well
| known. 1t is rumOred from the Ronkon-
koma camp that Miss Adams will be
candidate for Il place on the local board
Of managers if the normal goes to Ron
kOnkOma.
There are hundreds of elderly women
in New York who are willing to hire
themselves out as mothers at the re
spectacle salary of 5000 a year. Judging
from the scores of women, many of them
gray-haired and well dressed, who APP
piled at the stage door of the Victoria
theater in answer to the following adj
lVcrtiSement:
Mother-Wanted to hire Il mother; must
he respectable, elderly person, with good
references. Apply at stage door, Hammer
STEMS Victoria theater. Inquire for Miss
Itarc0urt.
Miss Harcodrt is an English character
coincidence an orphan, and an alien in
this country, and she wants the compan-
ionship Of an elderly motherly woman
All she wants she says. is to have her
help her on with her change of costumes
sew, make Il pot of tea. be companion
able, and faSten up her waists which
open in the back. There were many
humorous and also pathetic incidents con-
nected with the congress of mothers
which assembled. One woman said she
was niece OF the governor of Virginia.
another was a trained nurse from
Brooklyn hospital; some were expensive
ly gOwned and wore diamonds. For
nearly two hours there We're mothers
everywhere, grouped about the stage,
getting in the way of the stage car
penterS and following the property man
about with numerous inquiries. There
were even several mothers with children
in their arms.
Miss IIarcourt, who is young. good
looking, and lonesome, arrived ut the
theater about a quarter after 10 She
went Immediately to her dressing room
on the first floor and sent word that if
the mothers would stand in single file
she would take their names and aG
dresses. Most of them had answered
the advertisement by letter, making the
appointment for this morning. One
woman wrote:
II will be a good mother to YOU
neither smoke. drink, nor chew"
1t was busy hour for Miss Harcourt
She stood before her dressing mirror
with n stub pencil III hand aud inter-
viewed the applicants one by one She
noted their addresses.
Are you alone?" she inquired of one
woman.
II have three children" replied the
mother but | can easily leave them at
home. just love to travel"
Another said she could give splendid
references.
I've been with the Black Crook com
pany." she said, and I'm used to travel
ing.
One woman announced that she was
Mrs. John St Keith Adamson. and gave
her address as the Clover club. in West
Tweuty-iirSt street She was handsome
~ dressed in black and wore diamonds
in her ears and at her throat. She said
she was southern woman. and yearned
to he a mother to somebody. She car
red bunch of white carnations. which
she laid before Miss Harcourt. 1t was
the first touch of motherly love. and Miss
Harcourt thanked her profuSely
Miss Harcourt will decide on her hired