Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-03
By p. A. RARROWS.

Lincoln, Nov. Z-(Special.)- III MS
old world. with all its troubles, is not
such a bad place, after all, and
there are lot of people in it whose
hearts are fully in tune to catch the
plaintive calls for help which may
come out of the seeming darkness.
Our little story opens at the Home
for Dependent Children in the cap
ital city of Nebraska, where there
are dozens of little blue-eyed boys
and girls, and tots with darker eyes,
waiting for some one to come and
take them into good home.
Recently there was brought to
that home four little boys and girls
ranging in age from S months to
6 years. Their little moher, bride
when but a schoolgirl, taken from
home by a man who should have
been her protector through all the
years of her life, had been cruelty
left by the man with these little
people upon her hands. She strug-
gled to keep them together for a
long time, but at last she' saw the
uselessncss of keeping up the fight
and on the advice of friends they
were taken to the Home for De-
pendent Children.
Hear Baby's Call.
There wasa boy of 6, a bright lit
tie fellow with brown hair; another
boy Of IL years so like the other
that there was no mistaking their
relationship; a bright little girl of
2 IL years, with laughing blue eyes
and haxon curls and the baby of the
family, the pet of all, but months
old.
Out somewhere in Nebraska"
lived a man and his good wife. A
boy had come to bless the father
and mother s years before. They
longed for girl baby to come into
the home. One day the lady said
to her husband, Il believe l will
go to Lincoln and see if I cannot
find a little girl who needs a home
and bring her back with me-"
That would be a mighty nice
thing to do" replied the husband,
and so the lady travelled to Lincoln,i
went to the home for dependent
children in search of just the kind
of girl she thought she would like
to have. She told her story to Miss
Amy Stevens, superintendent of the
home, who seems always to know
Just what kind of little tot would
fit into any home, and a little girl
of 2l-2 was brought in.
Pleading Eyes Win.
Who could withstand the pleading
eyes and the winsome ways of the
little girl, taken from the arms Of a
fond and loving mother, but yet
motherlcss, and the loving heart of
the lady warmed at once to the little
girl and she at once made up her
mind that she had found just the
one her mother heart could go out
in love 10.
But there was something yet to be
considered-the little girl herself
had something to say, and she in
sisted that she did not. want to go
away and leave little sister and
brothers. This was a new aspect to
the situation and so the lady went
home and told the story to her hus-
band.
"Why not take one of them. also,
if the little girl seems so devoted to
them?" said the husband. "You go
back and make up your mind which
one you would like to have and then
phone ME and I will take the car
and go down to Lincoln and bring
you back"
take Whole Bunch"
That part of the program seemed
easy of solution, and the lady came
back to Lincoln happy in the thought
that her troubles were over and that
she could 60 back home with every
body perfectly happy and satisfied.
But it was hard to choose between
the bright-eyed baby and the two
laughing boys. 1t seemed hard to
take away either Of them from the
rest; it seemed almost cruel to sep
arate the quartet which had always
played together, and so. resolved to
secure the advice of her husband the
lady 'phoned for him to come and
help her solve the matter.
"He came. he saw and was con-
auered." When he beheld the low