The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-28

 nome we wanted to know from him just now he liked it, and this letter tells Tn ais own childish way just how happy ne s;
 Dear Mir Barrow: Your letter just re- seived; glad to hear from you all ana glad to now you all are getting along so well. Would be glad to see you all and spend some time with the boys at the club. I like my home fine when aint mad I like mama and papa well, when they don't get to clost to me about some thing. Well I had rather live out heare than to be at the boys club. Say. I have . fine goat to play with. Sometimes he try to But me But I can work him all right. Say. tell Rity howdy for me.
 JOHNNIE. .
 Then the new papa has his share to say:
 MT. Barrow-Dear Sir: Your letter re- reiyed some time ago. In regard to John nie. he is getting along fine, is as stub born as a little mue though we don't have any trouble with him. The boy suits me all right and seems to be well satis-
 ied when he is in good humor
 Yours.
 This is the consummation of very in teresting story as we read the juvenile court records and gather that Johnnie has been snatched by fate from an almost tragic life. His natural mother and father were Poles. The mother deserted home and the father soon left this boy years old to become a public charge. Johnnie remembers he has brother and sister In Chicago, being cared for by the char ltIes of that city. Every visitor to the Boys club can recall Johnnie's happy smile. as he greeted everybody first as they entered the doorway. He stood as a ..4. l.. .-.1 .Nf fl,a al4 His little face was bright with happiness, for he had found his way to the hearts of all who knew him; he had no frowns and frets, for no days were dark and hreary'' to him there. MT. Barrow knew that Johnnie needed a real home and mother and father to give him that real training that the boy needs to build the best kind<of man. So as inquiries came from the chldless homes Johnnie was 2 t,siven first consideration. He had re- Umained at the club some months and had llbeen trained to a certain extent, though I've note in Mir. Barrowis recommendatiou to the new father, to serve Johnnle . best interests he must be frank and de- tail his shortcomings and his virtues alike, that the weakness might be over come as they were guarded in the ne" home. So here MT. Barrow writes:
 We have under our care and super vision a boy between ages of II and Ia full orphan: a native of Poland, deserted by both parents, without much hope or ever finding them; he has absolutely no feeling for his people at all; has been to school little, If any: bright as can be: healthy and robust: especially willing to iearn stubborn and wants to have his own way; has a very strong haplt or smoking and has learned how to curse. These are his best and his worse traits. To me he Is of the most interesting and promising youngsters that we have ever had. What the boy really needs Is a strong, firm and yet kind and loving hand over him to train and rule him and he will make a fine young man.
 While MT. Barrow was thoroughly con- scientious with the applicant for a boy, he was equally as painstalxing in seeking the right kind of home wherein to place his charge, and so the boy is happily at home with Dr. William R. Snow, at Fall City Ala, and the two above letters ex- plain the entire situation and the JOY o' home giving and love of the home. Like all boys he has a great pleasure in his goat--this his first real possession-s some thing of his own-and little by little he IS grafting himself to that home Tor the mutual betterment of both
 We seldom pick up paper we do not read the sad story of some neglected or i'll treated child. If it is not at our door it is at some one elses. Distance does not erase the facts. The juvenile court offers that shelter and protection to the neglected, yas well as the uncontrolled children, and this home finding branch of the work is a great endeavor Tor the betterment of the child's condition. Only a few days ago our own papers chron- icled the fearfully brutal treatment of a father to his own a-year-old girl. whe bleeding. bruised, half dead, crawled from her natural protector to the world Tor kindness. We need more homes; we can find the charity anywhere, when whose doors are closed who can count the un- told mental and bodily anguish or us | fireside The home where love and sun l shine are unknown. Is it not an awaken ing to Johnnie Snider to find mother 2 hand and heart to tie up the little wounds his goat has made. as he writes He butts me-: mothers love to fix his daily bread, and pull back the cover after his now I lay me down to sleep and give him the real good night at home tc awake in the morning and find his goat ready 'to but again"
 The Boys club has many bright little faces peepng through it's windows am doorways. or romping on the lawn await ing new home to be made for them sturdy boys with '.buly faces mannel for their share of veal or woe in the boys world, planning to be men some day. The material is there. just waitins the molding into a strong and usefu manhood. Little blue-eyed girls, who want a doll to love. that they may play mamma'-a game they must learn oi their .own--for mamma to them has been e sore need. These are facts. You whc read them should covet your blessings press your loved ones to you and thank God for the privilege of being the right kind of mother then cast your eye to the less fortunate and your. own hearl will go out to the home-nndins feature : of the ''Boys' Club and Children's Aid society.
 We read every day where Mrs. So and So has left for the summer with her chil- dren to spend the time on the beach. AS you packed their new clothes did yor think of the little folks that could SC well use the old? These little girls are learning to sew and the girl who sews hest in July will have a silver thimoie Have you no scraps for quilts to send. When the new mamma finds little gif who loves to darn and sew on button slIe will have her doll to dress Better homes only follow the raising Of better girls. In our neglected and ill-treatee children the public has charge to keep At its head. Judge Murphy pleads to th' heart or the youth for better spirit H' hears of his crimes. and with the infor nation from the court he begins at one tie foundation for man. He recognize
 in the vice presented the unloved and un trained child. and he reaches right ou
 for his heart. Once he establishes friendship he begins to remove the cause and right under his daily notice the chill has d home-the home of the juvenil Qourt-with great big-hearted mothe Shere-Mrs. Gerdy-to do a mothers part f7er heart includes them all as she speak