Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-30

child up to the age Of -. after which
he or she is supposed to earn board and
lodgings by the assistance rendered the
foster parents. Yet the state keeps a
fatherly eye of supervision upon each
girl and boy till the 6 OF Is. and dur
ing all these years inspectors from the
state are specially sent out twice year
ly to visit every home where a child
has been taken to see that it is Well and
kindly treated, and that it's education
for 1T is stipulated that the child h
be sent to schooD is progressing. IL
a child. either boy or girl, show greSt
talent or gifts of an extraordinary ma
ture in any direction, the state con
tlnues to a for it even after it has
passed the age of IL, the boys being
sent to the higher schools to continue
their education n the girls to board
ING schools. Thus the right of forsaken
children to rise even to heights of fame
is recognized by the state.
Sixty per cent of all the children are
boarded In the home of small farmers,
~ per cent with artisans, II per cent
with agricultural laborers, 3 per cent
With small shopkeepers, and the small
remainder with people in other trades.
Inc majority. of the boys stay on the
1arms or become artisans, while many
OF the girls remain for years with their
loster-mother assisting in the house
old work. Some Of them. however,
take situations as domestic servants
IN the homes of the well-to-do Hungar-
ians. Refractory boys and girls are
put in reformatory or industrial
schools.
1t will be seen that almost every con-
tlngency has been considered and pro-
vlded for. The various homes to which
the children are sent are chosen by a
state official and a physician, while in
odCn COl0nV fhnr0 iS a Cfofo rh1.osoS1~
n a state nurse to care for the chill
dren in times of illness. 1t is also the
uuty OF the state nurse to visit the
homes where h children are boarded,
to give instructions in the matter Of
hygienic feeding and cleanliness. and
to see that the children are not kept
from attending school and do not play
truant. This nurse must also see that
where the children are given tasks to
DO their strength is not over taxed, for
1T is the desire of the state to father
healthy, strong. able bodied boys and
girls. Ihls state nurse also studies
the child's aptitude for any special
trade or avocation. and reports 10 the
state upon It.
Where young infants are sent to
these various colonies. in 81 cases out
OF 100 during the e the mother went
With the child and sucked it. and it
mas been noted that under such cir
cumstances only 16 per cent Of the chill
dren have died. The state. therefore.
makes strong inducements to the
mother to remain with her child, pro-
vldlng her not only with board and
odgin but sometimes eve paying
her for her services as nurse to her
child, and in the asylums where she
remains with the child for some time.
she is hired to suckle another child, If
her strength and health permit of it.
The feeding of any babies by hottie is
fnJnrnfnd rvh@v "a -
sential. When the mother does not ac-
company her child during the early
months. then care is taken to place the
child in the home Of a woman who has
a young child of her own and is willing
to nurse both her own child and the
foster child.
Amongst those who study the Hun
garian state system of providing for
forsaken children there are. of course,
some Who while admiring it, yet shake
their heads over it's possible result in
encouraging the propagation of the UNI
NJ Doth amongst married and unmar-
rled parents. Certain it is tha large
of mothers return again and
again to the state asylum, bringing
With them newly born babies for which
they declare themselves unable to pro.
vide.
Why are you doing all tkis?"
asked a n Hungarian who was speaking
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saken children. His reply was rank in
the extreme.
Because, said he. "Hungary wants
people and people and more people
most especially men to become soldiers
to fight. Shall we ever be free from
Austria without many. many soldiers?
we take care of the children that
the boys may be soldiers and the girls
breed more soldiers"
But what bout the unfit children
the weak and diseased ones?" I asked.
oh" he said with a shrug, some
OF the weddings might be g%eniuses,
and the other weaklings will die off.
and the rest will be soldiers and breed
soldiers!"
After all. an investigation into this
question gives one most furiously to
ponder upon certain aspects of it.
-Edueatina the ~subconscious Mind
Walter De Voc. 81 Nautilus.
The practice Of writing out ones
thoughts daily is a splendid means of
psycho-analysis whereby one can dis
cover many things that are hidden in
the sub-conSciouS mind. and uncover.