The Yale expositor., 1910-04-22

its nurse
italian women make the most successful moth
ers for the delicate babies" one OF the head ma
irons explained There is something In their
warmhearted temperaments. in their natural sense
of motherhood that helps the frail baby to thrive
Colored children are taken care of by colored
women until they reach the required age, when
the girls go to home in Baltimore and the boys
to Nebraska. where they are educated to trades
Sixty-six babies boarded car for New Orleans
a few weeks ago and started gaily on on voyage
of discovery They on their way to md their
mammas and papas. The babies are taught
through the years when they are kept in the found
ling home that somewhere waiting for them in the
world outside mothers and fathers and some
day they are to so to find them.
Many years ago, on cold winter night, ply
sician sent to the New York Founding hopital for
the youngest baby who healthy and promising.
He only wanted to borrow the baby for few
weeks. A patient had given birth TO child and
the baby had died. The mother was desperately
ILL., and the news of the death OF her baby would
possibly cause her death.
beautiful! baby boy two weeks old had that
day been left at the Founding home. The baby
was wrapped in blankets and taken away to one
Of the wealthiest homes in New York. For month
the sick mother nursed this baby. think
ing him her own. When she was we'll enough the
truth was told her. but the borrowed baby was
never returned. In the weeks of her suffering. the
touch of its little lips and the clasp of its hands
had made it in truth her baby
This year the boy graduated with honor from
an eastern college the oldest son of prom
nent man; a large sum of money for the founding
babies came as a gift from unknown friend"
Two agents. whose work 1t is to find mothers
and fathers for the waiting babies, are a part of
the regular staff Of the Founding home. They
work through other agents all the country
through churches and missions and children's aid
societies. the appeal Is universal. Do you want
a baby? Here is lost baby looking for a mother
and father. You may have any kind you desire
Descriptions and requirements may be written TO
the staff at the hospital, and you may have just
the baby you are looking for
You may require the color of hair, eyes, or even
specify the disposition. Usually the asylum has
more than it FILL Girls asked for in about
twice the ratio of boys Blueeyed girls are the
greatest in demand. and sweet" disposition is
almost always one of the specifications
One woman wrote to the asylum from town
within easy travel of New York. "We plain
people," she began 1.-THE height of our ambition
has been to have house of own. Now we
have 1t. all furnished as have wished. Yet we
not content. Our home is perfectly orderly
that have decided that need someone to
make it sweetly disordery."
Four or FIVE times a year, 40 or so babies start
of in little band in quest of homes. The babies
are sent to any part OF the country.
Nurses and attendants travel with the babies
who are distributed to agents who wait to place
them in homes along the way But the child is
not to lose its connection with the Founding home
Until the children grown they still looked
after, and their care and future guarded by the
supervision of the agents who make yearly visits
to their homes and the matrons who keep in con.
stant communication with them through letters.
Many times the adopted baby comes to mean to
a family all that their baby could have meant
Thousands of letters come back to the matron from
the foster mothers and fathers of the babies
After God, dear sister," an adopted mother
writes. at is to you my darling child so
will ask him to bless you forever"
Dear sister, feel it my duty to let you hear
from us. In regard to little boy and girl. My
husband and often wonder can IL be possible that
they not children when we see their
sweet, loving faces. II God will spare us to raise
them, we feel confident that they will be a credit
to all and comfort and pride to us In years to
come"
Children write home to the sisters OF their hap
piness and growing outlook life In most cases
the child is made to understand its connection with
the Founding home
little girl in the busy days of her school life
wants to tell of her As II is so long since
heard from you, thought would write and tell
you that am we'll, and that have Just completed
my first year at school, have the highest average
in my class, II being SO per cent. for the whole
year. AS was the only girl in the high school
perfect in attendance l received a pretty gold
medal as a reward"
Happy endings come Of many stories with
tragic beginnings The unwelcome baby finds a
welcome somewhere, makes place for itself some
how. In world that failed 1t at the start