Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1910-04-21
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two years New York's outdoor babies have re-
ceived 100000 little garments and inside the poor
mothers and babies have been equally we'll sup
piled.
How many buttons do you suppose need to
be sewed on? Here is charity can dis
pute-sewing for the babies. Sisters and nurses
can only look after their health and happiness
Deserted babies can count on friends, If other
things in life have failed them. Hundreds of rich
society women in New York. who have seam
stresses to sew for their children, work for
the Founding babies. Sewing classes meet in
private homes. their sole purpose devoted to the
wants of the hospitals children. Twelve hundred
little garments were the gift of single class
The babies have everyday clothes. and dressup
clothes when visitors come, like the rest of the
world. The churches also have sewing circles
devoted to the trousseaus of the deserted babies.
Money for materials for their clothes comes from
women who find this the simplest way of helping
with such extensive wardrobes. Occasionally a
shop will send something to help clothe baby.
New York gives a quarter of a million dollars
year to look after her founding babies. and
forty thousand more is contributed The Found
ling hospital extends from one end of long block
to the other and besides it's nursery buildings
has quarantine hospital and hospital for oper-
atoms and for the treatment ordinary diseases
The Founding hospital must not only care for
the waits deserted at its doors, but also for the
babies sent by the department of charities the
the courts.
There three groups of babies from the
few weeks old to those three or four years. and
they have their separate quarters the runabouts
are the children from 1S months to two years
old: and the grown-up babies. old as three or
four, are the kindergarten children The recep-
ton room is the schoolroom-a long room full of
tiny desks and tables the walls lined with pic
lures and corners piled with splendid TOYS. In
the middle of the room is a parrot IN a gola cage
who talks and sings like the children.
The founding babies who brought up in
side the institution know nothing of the perils
and joys of the street In connection with each
OF the nurseries there is roof garden. where the
children take their air and exercise. The Found
ling baby has scientific bringing up that may
give 1t better chance for health than the home
baby reared in affectionate ignorance Doctors
nurses and matrons study its life from hour to
hour. The most vital principle in modern Thought
is the effort that is being made every direction
to start the child on the right way.
With all its wealth of babies to care for the
rounding hospital does more for the babys
health than the average mother. AS each child
is received at the hospital its weight is regis
tered together with the name and number of the
baby, on weight chart. The weekly weighing
OF all babies is an established feature of hos
pital care Physicians regard the weighing of
babies as of utmost Importance in the proper care
Of a baby's health. The sick baby is judged by
its loss of weight; the well baby by its increase
Sick babies are weighed oftener-sometimes ev-
cry second day. Notes of the baby's illness are
kept on the back of its weight card.
The Infants Science Academy. which is now
discussed in New York city as a possible way
to save the babies from the ignorance of mothers,
wishes to establish the scientific method
for the of all little children that is applied
in the Founding home Each mother is to be
taught to keep chart of her baby's condition
not in any special class of society-rch and poor
alike-and this chart is to be submitted weekly
to baby's academy to be inspected by boards
of baby specialists.
Founding babies are always in charge of spe.
cialists. Important books chdrens diseases
have come from the study of the unwecome ba-
bies. Not only do the students and physic ians on
the stan of the hospital work with the children
but nearly all the city's prominent doctors have
served the hospital as consulting attending
physicians. In special cases physicians come from
the outside to study the mysterious causes the
mysterious expressions of baby Diseases which
are borne in silence. expressed only in mar.
ticulate sounds
The outdoor baby is the surplus baby. Not
always because the Founding home has no room
for 1t. but because the baby often needs what
the hospital cannot give.
Little babies live on love. l don't mean this
as a sentiment; mean 1t as fact; a tiny baby
lives on the love that cuddles 1t, that YARNS and
feeds It, To take 1t into the hospital without a
mother means 1t may die II an outside nurse
is found to care for IT, the baby often grows
healthy. strong and happy in her charge"
Women who have lost their own babies, or
respectable women who desire to earn q small
living by nursing. are the foster mothers Of the