The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-12

something the heart must nave to cherish,
 Must love and joy and sorrow learn, Something with passion clasp or per ish
 And in itself to ashes burn.' How many hearts throb with joy as old winter folds his tent like the Arab and silently steals away. Spring is here!'' many a mother cries out joy fully. That means taking baby in his go-cart to the park. He shall sit amid the warm green grass watching the yellow buttercups, the daisies, and the butterflies dutter among the prin- roses. How happy shall be just watching him An! how very won derfui it is to be a mother-and have a tiny human being all your own to love. and hug, watch and dream glorious day dreams over!
 The childless wife likes to go to the park, forgetting her loneliness in watching the blithsome toddlers who make sunshine in the hearts of hap pier women. As she sits in the park watching them, many a woman con ceives the idea that it is all wrong for her to be denied this boon of com clasp to her bosom too? The asylums and orphanages are full of them. It would be a blessing for some watf and stray to find a home and a heart that loved.
 l ChildIess wives broach the subject to their husbands of adopting a baby very hesitating1y Where one will lend his ear with patience to the scheme. a, hundred will crush her budding hopes with one blow She may coax and plead, but in this instance her cajolery seldom accomplishes the longed-for re- suit. Such men, as 9 rule, sigh to hear childish laughter, see 8 sunny little l face, listen to the batter of baby feet and Hsping tongues 4n their silent home. If they were given offspring of 1 5oice more. but-bringing up another mans child has it's grave disadvan- Ftages.
 As babes all human beings are sweet, 1ovab1e and innocent, but who can tell what the years ahead may bring forth? If little or nothing is known of the parents of the waif, sheltered at the founding home, a cer- tain amount of risk is taken in bring ling him into ones homes and heart. All the tender love and bright home surroundings have little weight or l influence with the lad 10 inherits tendencies they will never be able to I overcome.
 Where one returns love for love and gratitude. another will prove to be
 than1less, unloving, with a longing to 1 break away to naingIei with those more I wren. though you clothe him in the
 plunage of the bird of paradise. l To give a homeless lad a, roof and the care of loyal benefactors is no b1e experiment. If no tie binds the
 lad is a free agent to stay or go as he wills but, if adopted, links are forged which cannot be easily snapped lasunder even though he should prove untrustworthy. While nine waifs out Of ten repay a thousandfoId, in love the devotion layished on them by fos- I ter parents, the tenth child grows LII so much of torment that those whe have taken unto themselves the re- lsponsibility of rearing him wish iron i the depths of their hearts that they had not rushed into the folly of adopt. ing the baby instead of taking time tc I observe him expand from the baby tC
 the child and into the lad ere they
 took the irrevocable step.
 As is generally the case, by the time
 he is in his teens,i he is loved so fondIy
 that foster parents refuse to see his
 faults and have done their share 1T
 spelling him.
 .toh little feet. that such long year.
 Must wander on through hopes and
 fears,
 Must , ache and bleed beneath you,
 I'm weary thinking of your road