The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-15
THE FARMER: DECEMBER IS, 1914

ments of the home, under the able su- perv1sion of Sister Stella. One of the nurses is a graduate of the St. Vim cents Hospital Training school of this city. and the health of the children of the institution is in her charge.
 Wonderful Equipment
 In order to insure the equipment of St. Agnes with everything that an infant asylum should have. this sis ter and the Sister Supsrioress visited the best known and most modern in fant asylums in Massachusetts, New York and Baltimore. The result of their study is one of the most up-to- date infant asylums in the country. E On the first floor of the building there is a kindergarten for the older children. For days when out-of-door play Is not feasible, there is a large glass-encIosed veranda or sun room, about 75 by 50 feet. Then there is 8 day nursery where the time not spent out-of-doors or in play is passed and a night nursery with dainty white iron cribs, furnished with soft, downy blankets so that it is impossible for the children to hurt themselves. There are softly shaded night lamps so as not to hurt the eyes of the young sleepers.
 Healthy and Happy
 Tn the dainty little dining room they are taught all the niceties of table manners.
 .dThe picture of the row of kinder gardeners eating their supper. with their chubby cheeks, their bright eyes. their dainty white dresses. and the big bows on their hair. would delight the heart of an advertiser of pure food 7 said recent visitor to the home
 The second floor is given over to the toddlers from about two and one half to one year of age This has also the big sun room Of the same dimensions as the one on the lower floor. There is also a little dressing room where the tiny folks are bathed and dressed in the morning and bath ed and undressed in the evening. They have also the sunny day nursery and the night nursery equipped as for the older ones. The sick children are kept in the infirnary which is also on this floor In the white tiled milk room. where all the milk is steri1ized. everything is so sanitary that it is i'm probable that any germ would dare to enter The rooms of the attendants are on this floor.
 For the Unfortunate Girl On the third floor is the home of the tiny infants who range in age from the hour of birth to that of one year. These also have a sun room. around which are placed the bas- sfnettes, with their dainty muslin cur tains tied with blue ribbons and each occupied by a baby. Here, also, are dressing rooms, equipped with the latest things in bathing and dressing tables for small infants, and the milk room for the sterilization and pre- pairing of the milk which is in charge of graduate of a domestic science school There is also an open air room where infants born with any tubercular inclinations are kept, an infirmary for the silk babies, and a maternity ward where unfortunate girls, with no one to care for them or make provision for their coming trial are taken and cared for. If. after the birth of the child and convalescence of the mother. she wishes to remain with her baby until it is old enough to be taken away she is given work at the institution. A Training School, Also
 The institution is to form a sort oi