The sun., 1914-09-27
Romance in Lives
Of Adopted Children
Queer Turns Of Fortune in the Histories
of Waits Who Have Been Com
nitted to Institutions

.f.I tricks ~" played tnan IN
amin .-...tu., and institutions for the
.r..., .... .ur" II children In general.
7... ,..'.-l annual report of the
,r.,,t r,uil. Guardian Society and
Non. r,~ '.r Fricndlcss. recently is
..I . an ordinary looking little
ro-r.t ., '".Iu- Of the work Of the
o-,.,. ....u fur "a year past II con-
,sius 90" usual figures to show the
pu.rh.. u' Inmates in the home at
Uo.....-,-' aNruuc In The Bronx, the
,iras OBJ 81 .lr-,d and on hand, the list
a, ,Ns u'r s.- and the patrons and
n..r,1os,.... all In fact that goes along
u-,h Il uI.pcr and comprehensive re-
p,rt. H.' %, report is ever issued tell
tta %, 'uy nrt.usS the separations the
,l,y..lns and th. desertIuus that have
c1u. q, 'n" inmates Of the home. II
e,,ud an ao good ard serve no end to
tel - +nr hrartachr and the sorrow
,.I long mourning. 1t would not bo
lyr ,u the many children happily
eI,,'at 90 make public dhe unhappy
Incident lrtdiuE to their enrolment
ar.nr 'lr scores + other little waift
a, '., 'uw".
For .ea'y years the society has re-
ce.yeL sheltered. fed, clothed. educated
and placed 10 respectable homes nun
dreds -. children IheN nave pe'h cared
for. when rIs' received "' 'He ""nie' III
manner superior IN every way to that
ir o'...h .l.y wcro treated Heretofore.
LaE-t,i. trty and i,l very often, they
have nr,u n,urshrd and clothed until
hard, uai strong. Then they have been
4-.....t .,tarFuss1
1t 8. .a these adopu'ns that romance
takes 81 frequent part. When an un-
rRtura, mother or drunken father
ues..r'- or deserts child its commit
men. {, The home seems a very prosaic
and routine sort ~ thing. II Is a pill
fu, sgut 90 80" a suffering child, but
the hun" has seen and helped so many
hundreds ~ rtom that one more taken
in IN! sheltered is nothing out of the
Ordinary. 50 Oh" child becomes part
o, the .Esu;uton's NE, and that's all
there is to it-untN adoption time
arrives.
Take a case az random. A compara-
tvcy young widow was left with five
ch.drng. ranging from one little more
than U baby up 10 child years II
axe These children we're placed IN the
home ly their muc,cr and for Il time
81. d.G what she could to help toward
their support, but did not surrender
.h,m
She became acquainted with a Chi
cagu physician ot moderate practice and
they ~. ra married ana went to Chico 20
After .h.S .he mother did nothing for
tie ch ldr.u. Gossip had It that che
Aai nor a1rod to tell her new husba nd
he. 50. had the five children. The
Nome HAi 90 plan Tor their tuture'
one or twice 'etteTs We're received
q, tN' home from the mother begging
i'r l..'r'ui'''n about the 'h.'nreh' she
enH"a''' secrecy ana gave 'le ess 81
ot post "'n'e p'N she ma men ~
sno,"eI name. hu' VIC n'r'e ma ''"Ne
re'u'"' t' give ""' any "i"'n'a .''" -,
Z" 'n.'' VI. any i''h'''n' ''''' '''.rs 80 .
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