New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28

their own
NO PLACE FOR NORA.
Then Morals aunt was dispossessed. Nora
was very young and had no legs to speak Of.
and parents. and Morals aunt had family
Of her own. She came, the aunt did, with her
problem to DR.. Darrach who was teaching her
kindergarten children Nora among them.
Sure an I don't know what to do" she said.
There's a frind will take in me an me baby,
but there's no place for Nora"
But" said DR. Darrach "this is a school. I
can't keep Nora here. Surely there is some
home that will take her in"
Nora's aunt shook her head She had been
to the priest, and she had made the rounds of
every refuge he had suggested. Nowhere could
she get shelter for Nora. DR.. Darrach thought
there must be some mistake. She said that she
would try. She set out and the result was the
! same. Nora was not Ill enough for the hospitals,
and she was not well enough for any Of the
| "chidren's homes"
why" they told DR.. Darrach at one Of the
latter, Eve would have to hire a trained nurse
at SIS a week to take care Of the child"
If we began to take in children like Nora"
they said at the hospitals I'VE would soon be
overcrowded. We have not room for all the chill
dren who are far sicker than she"
The end was that DR.. Darrach took Nora to
her own home. My mothers face" she said
afterward when appeared with that fraiI
crooked mite under my arm was a study. How
ever, we found room for her, and we kept her"
The next summer Nora went with a group
OF little crippled ones to the country In DR.
barracks care. But in the fall there was again
the question Of what to do with Nora: also
various other small unfortunates whose homes
were not worth mentioning. 1t seemed q daring
thing to do, considering the scant supply of
n b11t T0r Tav oh
four room fiat in 69th-st., and there was estab-
lshed a Home" the first home for crippled
children New-York had had. Dr. Darrach did
J not embark upon the enterprise however, until
she had again searched institutions in vain for
! a corner for Nora and the others. She had gone
to Blackwelrs Island. among other places.
They agreed to take Nora there" she SAYS.
but when I where she would go-weII,
| it was a good place for some purposes, but
thought Of Nora, with her wistful little face and
! her refined little ways, and l simply couldn't
! take her to the island You know, you do get
/ attached 10 q child when you have Il with Won "
That IS the keynote of the Darracb Home
! There is a personal feeling for each individual
child. When to-day it is q question of new
clothes for the children It is not so many dresses
for the girls and so many suits for the boys; It
is a new dress for Catherine q dress for Mildred
q suit for Jimmy. To each q personal touch
| is given. And so with the more important mat
ters-the individuality Of each child is studied
and considered.
PRETTY. SUNNY HOME
The home has grown and hourished Friends
sprang up, and contributions came in slowly.
From the fat # was moved into small house
in 69th-st. Then, through some one who had
| influence, the Pennsylvania Railway Company
offered rent free the use of a house in 33d-st
At last came the proud day when Dr. Darrach
was able to buy the house IN 1O4th-st., and now
the home IS permanently located in quarters Of
its own. At the time they moved into the new
house the home was incorporated and given
Greatly against DR.. Darrachs wishes bur the
friends who interested inssted) the name
Of the TO whose efforts it is due
The other day, when the reporter visited the
! new home IN which the children were installed
] last October, the place was flooded in sunshine
/ True, there is a shadow on the house, the
] shadow of mortgage; but DR.. Darrach and the
various friends Of the home are trusting that
! some viii appear to help pay the mortgage,
/ and meantime the shadow is not visible either
/ IN the pretty rooms or the cnuDby faces OF the
/ children. 1t speaks well for the they have
that the children are mostly fat, for all their
crooked little arms and legs and backs one
/ mite sat out in front Of the house in a small
chair. One little leg stuck out stiff and straight
/ before her: but her cheeks wcrC like apples
/ Wouldn't you like TO stand up a little while
! Mildred" some one asked her.
Mrs Frazer said l wasn't TO-" she said con-
. tentedly. Mrs. Frazer IS the house mother
/ small boy came down the street, walking
! without even so much as a crutch, bringing
/ package of coffee for breakfast. A year ago
this boy was discovered in a tenement appar-
/ emily hopelessly paralyzed. He carried 10
and
dangling. Now he can do errands for the cook
OF course, all he wanted was the right care
Every day young woman one OF the COM
/ mittees comes and takes the children, all who
can go. out 10 the Park for a good time. But
every child who is old enough and we'll enough
TO 90 alone is allowed 20 do so. The fullest lib
erty possible for each child Is the principle on
which Dr. Darrach manages the home. AS fast
the boys and girls able, they are sent 10
the nearest public school That is another prin-
ciple Of the home, 10 have the children mix with
the outside world
James, one of the older ones. has Just been
apprenticed 10 a jeWeller. James has only one
leg, but he is dexterous enough with his hands
win James keep on living here?" the re-
porter asked DR.. Darrach.
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