The Washington times., 1919-12-19

Of Mike" Love of Mike is the third
boy in, the family.
Since the death, OF the Yasher. the
mother, q girl of fwenty.four. has
been forced to support her three
! She ID an artificial nower make,
and earns $12 a week. she found n
impossible to exist, work as hard a,
ehe could. She put her three babies
IN day nursery at 10. cents q day
she took them down in the mornina
before going to work and went -,
them In the evening after the dav,a
work was over. She loved her bahies
dearly. She cried day after day b..
cause she had insufficient clothing
ana FOOD. Without the kindness of
usno0rs, almost as poor as herself.
"on cnioren would have been naked.
FINALLY she determined she woui6
nave to give one child away She h.d
| read my stories in the Evening Jour
naL unable to take day OF. as she
could not spare the loss of the wa~es
days absence would entail sbe
asked neighbor to bring her baby
boy to me. S'
The man started with the little lad
But being unfamiliar with the citv
ana not knowing where to find me hs
stayed Tor several hours in the Grand
| -
FINALLY he conceived the idea OF writ
ing a note saying the baby was FOR
me and putting the note in the can
OF the little one, trusting to luck
when the note was read some one
would md the baby and deliver him
to me. --'A
Harry j. Loise, of New Rochelle.
was going to his home. He ia the
father Of three little children him.
self. He noticed a man holding
pretty little Love Of Mike" Perhaps
II was the kind, fatherly look In his
race which prompted the bewildered
man to give the baby to Mr.. Loise.
Began Ts Feel Uneasy.
He asked Mr.. Loise to hold the
child while he went into a retiring
room. Mr.. Loise took the little tot.
who was very friendly and hanny
He held him for an hour-two hours.
and then began to feel a bit uneasy.
He didn't suspect that the child was
abandoned, but thought the man had
missed him. He went from one to the
other in the station asking il they
had seen a man of that description
and telling that he was holding the
baby for a certain man. The ones
he spoke to seemed to suspect -imme-
diately what Mr.. Loise himself did
doned. They all laughed at him. and
said:
you keep the boy. we don't want
him. You are stuck"
Sent to Bellevue.
Finally Mr.. Loise reported the af-
fair to an officer, and accompanied the
latter to the station house. There the
child was examined and the note found
saying "Give it to Nellie Bly,"
However, this was not done, The
usual procedure was followed. The
baby was sent TO Bellevue HosnitaI
As>soon as-I knew of it I went there
and tried to claim him, only to find
would have to go through the repu-
lar red tape. -
The note had said the boy was seven
months old, but upon examination At
Bellevue each doctor reported the bov
was not less than ten months old.
Love Of Mike" had two teeth fully
through and two were coming
through. He stood on his feet
strongly, and, by holding to my fn-
gers, could walk all around the little
cage on the floor.
old baby can possibly do that. '.Mike-
Immediately made friends with me
He woke out Of deep sleep and. look
ing up at me, laughed, caught hold
Of my collar and held on. We were
friends at once. ! was also convinced
that he was older than the note had
said. / WAS determined to take the
child and either keep him myself or
place him in the home of some
wealthy family.
Only the fact that had bronchit,.
for the last few days, and was con-