Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-27
LTTTLEORPHANT ANNIES
COME INTO THEIR OWN AT
NEW CARSON COLLEGE
Healthy, an Orphan, Only Quail
ifications-First Choice to
Philadelphia and Montgom-
cry County Girls
TO BE AT ERDENHEIM
Girls Must Be Six Years Old or
Older to Get in
u School

The Little orphant Annies" are coming
| into their own at last
There's home for little orphant Armies
| a-building at Erdenhem, in the beautiful
whitemarsh Valley, near Chestnut Hill.
And II there's nobody very much inf 'r-
ested In you, little orphant Annie, herees the
| way to find the place for you In the real
| home that awaits you at Carson College.
Firstly you must be white, also poor, also
| healthy
It's an easy matter to decide the matter of
| color. Very likely you're white
Probably you're poor. At least. you're
| somewhat poor because you're little girl
without mother or a daddy.
And it's too bad, but IL you're lame. and
can't walk, or blind, and can't see very we'll,
Carson College won't take you In. But that's
| all. Otherwise, IL you are like most of the
| little girls in the world you're healthy
| enough for the real home. The second con-
| sideration Is one OF age. Are you at least
6 years old? That's all right. And II you're
| not more than 10. it's still all right. For 6
and 10 are the age limits of the college.
| Also, though your mother and father knew
nothing of Carson College. 1t would be a
| great help to you now II you have been born
| In the right place
For Instance, little girls born in the city
Of Philadelphia or in Montgomery County,
sight next door to the city, will be given
| preference over all other little girls. They
| will take you in first.
After all these little girls are at home
at Carson College the orphant Armies
born In the State of Pennsylvania will be
welcomed. And thirdly, all the little, girls
from anywhere in the United States will
knock Mt the big brass knocker on the
wrought door of the college. When you're
quite sure, little Orphant Annie. or what
ever your name may be, that you want
to grow up In Carson College send to the
trustees in the wtherspoon Building for
the application blank. There are almost a
mile of questions they will put to you on
their application blank.
When were your father and mother mar
rled and where? And when were you born7
And are you sound In mind and body,
which means are you very well7
When and where did your mother and
father die and of what disease?
And did they leave YOU anything when
they died? And, II so, what?
And who's been taking care of you ever
since?
And are there any more OF you in your
family, brothers and sisters?
That's all, but II must seem lot to
little girl.
The third turn in the road to Carson
College Is an examination by the trustees
doctor. If the board by this time thinks
you are just the right little girl to bring
up In their home, they will send you to
their physician. Because every little girl
must be poor. white and. above all, healthy.
with somebody, and nobody knows just
who that somebody or somebodies will be.
and that somebody will make the final de-
clsion IL you, little orphant Annie. is COM
ing to stay.
There are several questions that may pug
zle the guardians OF little Annie. II either
mother or father died of tuberculosis. will
the tubercular tendency usually considered
possible by students of heredlty, be con-
sidered n sign of i'll health? Is tendency
a foreboding2
And will the little girl who has never
known her father be considered eligible
when her mother is dead? Is father who
has never been father to be considered
dead?
A father. they say. might have to be
proved legally dead. though It's not certain
that legal certificate as to his demise
will take the place OF the ordinary death
certificate.
And It doesn't matter how the mother
or father died. be a scandal what II may
1t won't deter the board from passing an
unpreJudlced opinion on the merits of the
child involved. Eighty little girls already
have their applications on file at the office
in the Witherspoon Building.
And in the meantime they are getting
ready the myrlads of little dresses. for the
founder OF Carson College decreed that
three little girls in his home should be
dressed alike. And the little girls need not
even wear a hair ribbon like the other
little girls. In fact. 1t was the request
of the founder. the late Robert N. Carson,
that the little girls in his home be dressed
In becoming clothes. Little girls, he felt
must not be labeled by their method of
wearing their hair ribbon or the style in
which their pigtails are manipulated.
Each little girl will be dressed in the
style most becoming to her type and each
little girl will be educated according to her
ability.
So every little orphant Annie had better
watch out