Charlevoix county herald., 1910-05-21


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
warm-hearted temperaments. in their natural sense
of motherhood that helps the frail baby to thrive "
Colored children are taken care of by coored
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
Sxty-sx babies boarded car for New Orleans
few weeks ago and started gaily off on voyage
of discovery. They were on their way to nnd 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 are mothers and fathers and some
day they are to go to find them.
Many years ago, on a 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 a child and
the baby had died The mother desperately
ill., and the 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
wrapped in blankets and taken away to one
of the weathiest homes in New York. For month
more the sick mother nursed this baby, think
ing him her own When she we'll enough the
truth told her. but the borrowed baby was
never returned. In the weeks of her suffering. the
had made it in truth her baby.
This year the boy graduated with honor from
an eastern college as the Oldest son of promi
nent man. large sum of money for the founding
babies came gift from an unknown friend. "
Two agents. whose work it is to find mothers
and fathers for the waiting babies part OF
the regular staff Of the Founding home. They
work through other agents all over the country.
through churches and missions and childrens 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 ray be written to
the staff at the hospital, and you may have just
the baby you looking for
You may require the color OF hair, eyes, even
specify the disposition Usually the asylum has
more than 1t fill. Girls asked for in about
twice the ratio Of boys Blueeyed girls the
greatest in demand and sweet" disposition is
almost always of the specifications
One woman wrote to the asylum from town
within easy travel of New York 1--WE are plain
people," she began. 1.-THE height of our ambition
has been to have house of our own. Now we
have it, all furnished as have wished Yet we
not content Our home is so perfectly orderly
that We have decided that need someone to
make it sweetly disordery."
Four or five times year, 40 or so babies start
off in q little band in quest Of homes. The babies
are sent to any part of the country
Nurses and attendants travel with the babies
them in homes along the way. But the child is
not to lose its connection with the Founding home
Until the children grown they are still looked
after and their and future guarded by the
supervision of the agents who make yearly visits
to their homes and the matrons who keep In con
slant communication with them through letters.
Many times the adopted baby comes to mean tC
a 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," adopted mother
writes, at is to you / owe 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. Ny
husband and often wonder 1t be possible tina
they not own children, when the
sweet, loving faces. IL God will spare to raise
them, feel confident that they will be a credi
to all and a comfort and pride to in years t
come"
Children write home to the sisters of their hap
piness and growing outlook on life. In most cases
the child is made to understand its connection will
the Founding home.
A little girl In the busy days of her school life
wants to tell of her "As II is long since
/ heard from you, thought would write and tel
you that am well, and that have just completed
my first year at school, have the highest average
in my class, 1t being SO per cent. for the Who'll,
year AS was the only girl in the high schoo
perfect in attendance received a pretty golt
medal q reward"
Happy endngs come of many stories will
tragic beginnings. The unwelcome baby finds
welcome somewhere makes place for itself some
how. in a world that failed 1t at the start.