Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-09

| name or his or her own Identity. TIL
| conversation may be limited to this:
Question--What is this child's name
Answer-I do not know.
| Question-What is your Nance
| Answer do not know,
| Very well Good day, madame.
| Good day, monsieur.
EVERY FACILITY AFFORDED.
| Every facility IS thus granted foi
| evading awkward questions as to iden.
| tity, 80 that there is no excuse what
| ever for the abandonment OF an infant
| on the doorstep or on "a bench in the
| public squares, as used to be frequently
| the case and as still happens. though
very rarely.
To such a degree is this scrupulous-
| ness on the part OF the authorities car
| ried that a woman Is free to go to a
| lying-in-hospital and declare that she
intends to abandon her child as soon as
It Is born. The only fornality she has
to comply with is to write her name
and address and any other particulars
she may desire on sheet of paper,
seal it herself In an envelope and hand
it to the hospital authorities, so that
in the event of her death the necessary
formalties may be carried out. The
envelope is otherwise returned to her
unopened on her leaving the hospital
HOW BABIES ARE NAMED.
should the parent abandoning the
child declare its name and other par
ticulars, so much the better; otherwise
the authorities have to name 1t them
selves and give IL what is termed an
ctat civil. tatanount TO our birth reg
istration. When the infant has been
a cd - no fpnnIani1N borrow
ed from the place where II was found.
The two little children, for instance,
TO whom ] already have alluded and
who were deserted in a hotel in the
Boulevard de Rochechouart may quite
conceiveably be now bearing respec-
lively the names of ii, let US say, Jean
and Marie Rochechouart. But one
thing IL certain; from the moment an
infant has been received into the Hos
pice des Enfants Assistes its future
Whereabouts, its history and career
are alone known TO the authorities
This is absolutely necessary, for If a
mother abandoning child we're able
To keep herself informed of its move
ments the temptation to the poorer
classes to abandon their offspring
would be well nigh irresistible. If,
however the childs name has been
duly declared on its being received in
To the noSpICc !" pJa''Dt - -.
parents 70 reclaim IT ~ "'tol So"l'
II theS dtlray me outihy tnat mas peen
incurred when ~ "pout CIV yu tt
IN the carry perlou OF lhe emu nlc'
About 4oo chllureh are lhus gwen
back to their parents every year.
Duly TAGGED
Until It has reached the age of six
or seven years, every found!lng"
wears underneath its c1orhing a little
U lend ncdsIlian hearing its MN
Der. so that IL may bc easily traced
II lost. As soon as II is sufficiently
INTELLIGENT to know It's own name and
where II lives this necklace Is dispens-
ed with.
No children remain at the hospicc
for more than SO hours as general
rule. Almost ms soon as thev arrive
they are drafted into no cni,ntry dis-
tricts 10 he nlirsed I'm The houses M
the peasantrv Thov are acnt 10
school. tho bovs arc taupht , trade
or Ia work an "A farm ana no, 49,
form thal. ,,illta,,, ss,vIre NJ. 100,
othor dtizen viii ths ,,,,iD ,.stiE,,
beron,e domestic eor,,snts "'"''''
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