Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-14
'IlKE NE home, MISTER. :
Little Elizabeth Parker Vainly Cries
For The Only Homo She
Ever Knew.

s'Take ma hone, Mister. Take me
home please, wont your" With tears
rolling down her rosy cheeks and
sobbing as though her little heart
would break, pretty three year old
Elizabeth Parker begged and implorel
to be taken to her home the only
parents" and brothers" and sis.
tiers" Of whom she knows.
The child, who is said to be the
daughter Of we'll known people, was
taken from her colored foster parent,
Mrs. Ida Dogan. yesterday, by Judge
Barley in the Corporation Court and
placed in the care Of the Chifdren's
Home, Mrs. Mary Mathews being ap-
pointed guardian. The matter was
brought to the attention OF the court
by several OF the ladies OF the ". G.
T. IT,, who naturally objected to a
white child being given absolutely to
colored people to raise, even though
they are respectable.
When representative OF the Gazette
called at che Children's Home
late yesterday afternoon, he was met
by Mrs. Mollie Whatley, the matron,
WHO called the little girl downstairs.
The childis unusually attractive, hay.
ing beautiful light golden curls and
dark blue eyes and features that in
dictate character despite the stain OF
her parontage. She came willingly
into the reception room and when
seated on the reporters knee pleaded
with him to take her horne.
81 know where it is. Mister-I'll
show you the way. Its just up King
street." she lisped between sobs. 1t
was pitiful to hear her beg to be
taken home" to foster parents who
evidently had been most kind to her.
II want my Aunt Blanche" she
would cry, and ] want to play with
Mary"
To pacify her, two bright pennies
we're brought forth and given 10 her.
"I'll put one OF these in my bank,
she said, land I'll only spend the
other one. But Mister. il you gave
ne another could give that TO Hog
gie.''
"Who is Hoggie?" she was asked.
"Why-he.s my brother" she re-
piled as though every one ought to
know that and, despite the affection
shown, the reply caused a chill to
run through her hearers. Indigna-
ton at the sins and hea. tlessness OF
the parents mingled with the pity of
1t all. Pity that such an affectiouate
little one has no mamma OF her own
and probably will never never know
who are her real parents. She got
the penny, however, aud wandered out
OF the room for few moments but
presently came back with Il paper
bag in her hand.
What's in that bag?"
'Uh, uh-Want to see it. and she
opened the bag disclosing an apple
and q pear and little rag doll. She
afterward spoke OF William, Bessie
and Mary aud said they were her
''brssher and sisters"
Mrs. Wbatlev stated, when the re-
porter was leaving, that it was one
OF the most pitiful cases that have been
brought to the Home aud while she
did not know the names OF the chiid's
parents. that they paid her board
and had doing so ever since few
weeks after her birth. She further
said that it was her understanding
that the child could not be legally
adopted by anyone unless the parents
should cease to provide for her.
And at the door pretty little Eliza
beth held on tightly to the reporters
hand and with heartrending sobs, cried
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