The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-04-30

adopted by the woman who acted as
it's 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
warm-hearted temperaments, in their natural sense
of motherhood that helps the frail baby to thrive
Colored children are taken of by colored
women until they reach the required age, when
the girls go to a home in Baltimore and the boys
to Nebraska, where they are educated to trades.
Sixty-six babies boarded car for New Orleans
few weeks ago and started gaiy off on voyage
of discovery. They were their way to find their
mammas and papas. The babies 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 go to find them.
Many years ago, on cold winter night, ply
stefan sent to the New York Founding hopital for
the youngest baby who was 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
i'll, and the news of the death Of her baby would
possibly her death.
A 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
more the sick mother nursed this baby, think
ing him her own. When she was well enough the
truth was told her, but the borrowed baby was
touch Of its little ips and the clasp Of its hands
had made 1t in truth her baby.
This year the boy graduated with honor from
an eastern college as the oldest son of a promi-
nent man; large sum of money for the founding
babies came as a gift from unknown friend .
Two agents, whose work it is to find mothers
and fathers for the waiting babies, are part of
the regular staff of the Founding home They
work through other agents all over the country,
through churches and missions and childr6ns aid
societies; the appeal is universal. Do you want
baby? Here is a lost baby looking for mother
and father. You may have any kind you desire.
Descriptions and requirements nay 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 are asked for in about
twice the ratio of boys. Blue-eyed girls are the
greatest in demand. and sweet" disposition is
almost always one of the specifications.
One woman wrote to the asylum from a town
within easy travel of New York. 1--WE are plain
people, she began. "The height Of our ambition
has been to have a house of our own Now we
have it, all furnished as we have wished Yet we
are not content. Our home is so perfectly orderly
that we have decided that we need someone to
make it sweet1y disorderly"
-Four or five times year. 40 or so babies start
Off 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 are grown they are 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 keen in con-
slant communication with them through letters
Many times the adopted baby comes to mean to
family all that their own 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 ut is to you I owe my darling child, so
viii ask him to bless you forever"
Dear sister, feel it my duty to let you hear
from US, in regard to our little boy and girl NV
husband and often wonder can it be possible that
they are not our own children when we see their
sweet, loving faces If God will spare us to raise
them, we feel confident that they will be a credit
to all and a comfort and pride to us in years to
come"
Children write home to the sisters of their han
piness and growing outlook on 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 success it is SO long since
neafd from you, thought l would write and tell
you that am well, and that have just completed
my first year at school. have the highest average
in my class, it being SO per cent for the whole
year. As was the only girl in the high school
perfect in attendance I received pretty gold
medal as a reward"
Happy endings come of many stories with
tragic beginnings. The unwelcome baby finds 8
welcome somewhere. makes place for itself some
row, IN world that failed it at TIE gtart