The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-04-23

its nurse.
italian women make the most successful moth
ers for the delicate babies" one of the head ma
irons explained "Ihere is something IN Nelr
v.arrrhearted temperaments. in their natural sen'e
Of motherhood that helps the frail baby TO thrive
Co1ored children are taken of by colored
v.on-an 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 a car for New Orleans
few weeks ago and started gaily off on a voyage
of discovery. They were on their way to find 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, ard 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 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 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
wrapped in blankets and taken away to ors
of the wealthiest homes in New York. For month
more the sick mother nursed this baby, think
ing him her own. When she well enough the
truth 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 hancs
had made 1t in truth her baby.
This year the boy graduated with honor from
eastern college the Oldest Of a promi-
nent man; large sum Of money for the founding
babies came gift from unknown friend
Two agents whose work 1t is to find mothers
and fathers for the waiting babies, a part OF
the regular staff Of the Founding home. They
work through other agents all over the country.
through churches and missions and children's 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, or even
specify the disposition. Usually the asylum has
tHan 1t fill. Girls asked for in about
twice the ratio Of boys. Bueeyed girls the
greatest in demand. and a Sweet" disposition is
almost always one Of the specifications
One woman Wrote to the asylum from a town
within easy travel of New York I'VE are plain
people" she began. The height of our ambition
has been to have a 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 have decided that we need someone to
make 1t sweetly dsorderly"
Four five times n 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
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 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 back to the matron from,
the foster mothers and fathers of the babies
After Cod dear sister," an adopted mother
writes, lit is to you l owe my darling child so
will ask him to bless you forever"
Dear sister, feel It my duty to LET Won bna,
from us, in regard to our little boy and girl NV
husband and often wonder can 1t be possible that
they are not our own 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 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 70 tell OF her success AS 1t is long since
heard from you, l thought would write ana tau
you that am well, and that have lust comnIete "a
my first year at school, l have the highest averapl
IN my class It being 80 per cent for the whn7e
year As was the only girl in the high school
perfect in attendance | received pretty gold
medal as q reward"
Happy endngs come Of many stories with
tragic beginnings. The unwelcome baby finds a
welcome somewhere makes place for Itself soTa,
how in world that failed it at the start