Willmar tribune., 1910-04-27

adopted by the woman who acted as
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 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
few weeks ago and started gaily off on voyage
of discovery. They were on their way to find their
mammas and papas. The babies are taught
through the years when they 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
sician sent to the New York Founding hopital for
the youngest baby who was healthy and promising.
He only wanted to borrow the baby for a few
weeks. 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 cause 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
of the wealthiest homes in New York. For month
or more 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 of promi
nent man; large sum of money for the founding
babies came gift from an unknown friend"
Two agents. whose work 1t 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 the country
through churches and missions and children's aid
mi afioos Tho Sc ~
a baby? Here is lost baby looking for 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 are asked for in about
twice the ratio of boys. Blue-eyed girls are tho
greatest in demand, and "sweet" disposition is
almost always one of the specifications.
One woman wrote to the asylum from Z town
within easy travel of New York. I'VE are plain
people," she began. "The height of our ambition
has been to have house of our own. Now we
have 1t, all furnished 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 sweetly disorderly."
Four or five times year, 40 or so babies start
on 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 it's 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 keep 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, lit is to you I my darling child, 80 I
will ask him to bless you forever"
Dear sister, | feel it my duty to let you hear
from u.s. in regard to 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 credit
to all and comfort and pride to us IN years tn
come"
Children write home to the sisters of their han.
p1ness 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. As it is so long sincs
neard from you, I 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, it being SO per cent. for the whole
year. AS was the only girl in the high school
perfect in attendance I received a prettv eo1d
medal a reward"
Happy endings come of many stories with
tragic beginnings. The unwecome baby finds a
"elcome somewhere, makes place for itself some
now, in world that failed it at the start