The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-05-21
FINDS BABY WA|F
DAUGHTER of New York Banker
Discovers Bundle on Steps.
Child Thought Cries Were Those OF
Kitten is Anxious to Claim
Ownership of Orphan De-
serted BY Mother.

New York.-Bright and early one
morning little Rosemary HOLSTER, the
eight-year-old daughter OF George I.
HOLSTER. banker, lot East Sixty
ninth street, raced breathiessly down
stairs to the telephone and called UP
Bellevue hospital
She could hardly wait for the con-
nection to be made, and then, with an
eager catch In her voice, asked:
How is my baby today"
Delight rsdiated over her features
as she heard that the baby had slept
soundly in the infants ward.
THANK you; I'm so glad, SAID lit
tie Rosemary. "You will be sure to
take good care of her" she tmplored.
and may I come to see it today:
Yes? Oh. goody, gooey," and she
hung UP the receiver and raced ABOUT
TIE house, hurrying mother hurrylng
the goveYness, hurrying the COOK
hurrying everybody, SO that she might
be off to the hospital as soon as POS
sible to see the baby, and, maybe
hold it in her arms once more, as she
did for the first time the other alter
noon.
I.ithe Rosemary found her BABY
trst Ike in the fairy book. THIS III
tie gi-. is not like most rlea little
girls bit is a sweet little hofae-Dody'
and is a great friend OF the cook.
One afternoon. when it was ram
ing so Lard that a little girl couldn't
be in the park anyway, she went down
into the kitchen and stood watching
tie cook haste the roast.
Suddenly, when the wind died down
a little, there came the funnieSt little
noise from right outside the window.
ooh, cook, what is that sound?
asked little Rosemary. The coo6
didn't know, but thought it might Dc
little, stray pussy asking Tor smell
ter
Rosemary ran to the door ard threw
it wide open.
Come, pussy; come, pussy" called
little Rosemary, but she didn't see
anything. So she poked her hea@
through the door, not Winding the
rain. and there, on the mat, she sh~
a tiny little bundle. And there came
again the funny little sound, and the
little bundle moved. Little Rosemary
PICKED up the bundle and ran bacG
to the kitchen with 1t.
Beside the warm stove she opened
| It and there was the cutest little
baby, dressed in white silk dress,
silk cap and veil. And the baby had
| the loyeiiest black hair, and the cutest
| big, blue eyes, and it cooed and
gurgied as the warmth reached fts
little bcdy. The cook said it couadn
| be more than a month old.
| Little Rosemary clapped her hands
with glse and ran upstairs to the re
ception hall shouting.
Mamma, Mamma! Come quick
Somebody's brought US baby"
All over the house they heard Rose
| mary's cry, and al came running to
the kitchen--Mrs. Hollisetr, Mr.. Hoi-
lister. Sisters Dorothy and Catharine.
| the butler, the footn1an and all the
! servants They formed ring around
the little baby. and Rosemary and
all laughed as the little waif caught
! Rosemary's finger in its chubby little
hand end cooed some more. So they
Let Rose mary feed the baby with a
/ spoon, while papa and mamma went
upstairs 20 talk it over.
! Pretty soon Rosemary went up
stairs again to ind out if she could
keep her baby, and as she passed
| the vestibue she saw a girl, not more
| than twenty, wearing fur coat and
! black beaver hat. peeping in through
| the glass door, and there was an
| onxious look. in her eyes. Rosemary
ran to the door, opened it. and asked:
Are you looking for a baby?'
mo. MY dear, am waiting for q
frierd," answered the young woman,
but there was a catch i'll her voice as
!. she said it. Then she, ran away.
Thon came a big policeman in q
| rubber coat TO take the baby away.
Rosemary cried as though her heart
would break. hut finally she kissed
the baog good-by and let the police
man take it when he promised 70
snuggie 1t under his rubber coat so
it wouldn't get wet.