The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-27

being willing tc give away one child
 The nursery lady" becomes the best of neighbors to the babies mothers Her visits are welcome because she comes helping. not inquiring. She commends cleanliness and thrift. and lets the mothers see how sweet and clean her simple rooms can be. She finds that her example is followed. and when chairs take the places of overturned boxes. and a bit of white linen appears. on the shelf or a picture on the wall. another victory has been scored.
 1t was tried for a while. to interest the mothers in evening lectures. but when you have scrubbed or worked in factory all day your back is too tired and your brain to dull to ab- sorb instruction You want to be amused. So now these tired mothers are taken to some entertainment, usually at the Hippodrome, for since many are foreigners. they understand that best. Their faces are a study, One woman looked so happy, a mat ron asked: You enjoyed it. didn't you?" The eyes widened and over flowed. Enjoy! I am glad I see 1t before ' die" Another looked seri- ous. And you? I am afraid you did not have a good time" T only thinka what mtista Heaven be lika, if this so beautiful!" Heaven and the Hip- podrome, She supported an invalid husband and several children and pleasure had never come her way be- fore.
 Sometimes a tragedy makes the need of nursery known. Some one urged that one be opened in a downtown dis Nr4. xxfFf n1 leave their children. This or that de- layed the work. One day a mother locked her two little ones in and went to work. The room caught fire and l when the neighbors broke in the door the children were dead, locked jn each others arms, and between them, dead too, the kitten they had. tried to save. Another little child, locked in, leaned from the window to wave goodbye to the mother and fell to death below. One mother is crazed; the other still bowed in grief. but in that neighbor- hood a nursery has been opened for such mothers and at twenty minutes to six every morning the children are received and put to bed to finish their sleep.
 The Jewell nursery organized twen- ty years ago and maintained in memory of her own child by Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, now president of the Federation of Day Nurseries, Is down in the Italian quarter. When she stated not long ago that she was to have a model six-story new build ing, someone said: Why they are only Italians down there" and she re- piled: "Yes. but they are babies just the same" Because of this spirit from those Italian babies some of New atf xsv4Il ha p1ndn If is in this same nursery that much has been done to teach Kindness to anil mals. The children of the neighbor- hood were eager to torture cats and dogs. The matron let 1t be known that children who, wanted to might bring in sick cats and dogs and help her physick them. The plan has worked beautifully. True, the nur- sery sometimes acquires an embar- rassment of riches. This summer very small boy with a very large package inquired for "the nursery lady." Answering this, as she does all appeals the matron found herself the recipient of five young kittens care fully packed in ice and wrapped in newspaper by their kind guardian.
 The first day nursery in this coun- try was the Nursery and Childs Hes pital of New York. opened In 1854, but later discontinued. The next, and the first really permanent one. was estao- lishei by Miss H. s. Riddle of Phtla- delphia in 1863, and three years later St. Barnabas' House Day Nursery. now Gods Providence. was established Tn New York
 The largest day nursery in point or numbers is Brightside in New York a non-sectarian house maintained py Jewish philanthropy, and caring TOT