New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-09
WANTED, $4,000
DADDY LONC-LECS'
College and High School
Girls Soug,lt to Aid
Little Orphans
TAKE A WEE JUDY
HOME WITH YOU
State Charities Aid Association
Plans Leagues. Miss Web
ster Explains Work.

Would you like to be Daddy Long
Legs?
This is using the word in the orphan
asylum sense, meaning a Daddy who
rescues a child from state ins;itu-
ton and gives the little one a home
and the tenderness that transforms an
inmate into human being. You might
rot be rewarded BY such letters as
JUDY in the play wrote to her Daddy
Long-Lcgs. but. on the other hand
you would not have to marry your
orphan, SO IL is perfectly fair prop
csitioa.
The State Charities Aid Association
wants "A Daddy Long-Legs for every
child in it, nstitution-that Is, 36,OOO.
It is starting a series of Daddy Long
Legs leagues. which are to create pub
lie interest in the problem Of the love
less orphan asylum child, and raise
funds for the rescuing Of as many
little Judies as possible.
The chance TO be Daddy Long-Leg:
is open 20 everybody, but is offered
particularly to girls in high school:
and colleges, who, it is thought, will
feel that the undiscovered Judies II
homes are their special problem.
Nassar College is expected 20 have
tne honor of the first Daddy Long
Legs League Miss Mary Vida Clark
secretary Of the ch.ldren's committee
Of the States Charities Aid Associa'
ton, is going TO Nassar on Friday tc
talk TO the girls and try 70 rouse then
enthusiasm in the new movement
There are on an average $50 girls II
each class at Vassar. and il costs only
$500 year to maintain a JUDY II
some good family, so the committee
hopes that the classes will each ADOPT
a baby for their mascot.
The State Charities Aid Association
has placed more than LOO homeless
children in childless homes in the
twenty years OF its existence. II was
while Miss Jean Webster, author OF
Daddy Long-Legs." was at NasSar thai
she first became interested In the worF
of the association through the College
Settlement Association. AfterwGrd she
did much volunteer work on the chill
dren's committee, and, as she. expresses
il, bullica many rich bachelor into
adopting baby.
II am always watching out for {
family that think needs a child" she
said yesterday at her home, at l2'
West 59.h 81. when find the proper
people | suggest to them that IL wcul6
he such a sweet thing if they woult
give a poor orphan baby a little frest
mir outing. If they liked they coult
even keep il all summer, | say. Well
L or
get who would allow that baby 70 g
after she had had Il for two months.
"Of course. the society has lev
other little tricks, too. One is calie'
fattoning the babies. Yon see. peopi
don't like the looks OF orphan asy IN
children. They are thin and unhealthy
They have awful manners. and likelN a
not they swear something horr bic
Women with dreams of golden-cufle
little angels somehow don't seem Z
find what they want when they 20 t
visit the asylum. So the State Chair
ties Aid Association steps in. A chill
is picked out. sent 70 the country hom'
% one OF the members, fed, ba'hed
loved and instructed in the gentle art
for a month or two. Then the pro pee
tive mother is invited 70 visit the child
The stage is set with little Nellie in
fine white dress. with pink ribbons
playing with her toys in the rose gar
den. Mother is enchanted, and thu
match is made.
There Is one man in this city wh'
has adopted forty little girls. He goe
T. see them all, knows them all by
name and their favorite brand Of candy
and orce year he takes them all TO
gether 10 the theatre. lie is a prom
inent clubman and phi'anthropist
Bachelors seem to like little girls am
old maids want boys
Nrs. Willard Straight Is one o. IN
prominent members of the children.
committee. Others are Joseph Choate
Or. Abraham Jacob, Mrs. Mary Hate
Willard, Homer Folks and Felix War