The evening world., 1921-01-05
taking for you, Admiral MOcully,"

taking for you, Admiral McCully," i
said.
But I cannot ten you how glad ]
am to have these little people with
me after all they have suffered" re-
piled this big, stalwart man as his
kind eyes showed just trace Of mist,
Then he added:
There were a lot more 1 should
have liked to bring over with me, but
some of them had traces Of tubercu-
losis, and 1 knew they could not stand
the test. My little people are oil
healthy and we'll"
Are they going to call you father,
or perhaps 'daddy'?" / asked.
mo, they call me uncle, laughed
the Admiral. And some Of them call
me Admiral Everyone Of them is
a full orphan with the exception of
two, who have one parent living, so
I shall have to be mother, father and
everything to them"
NO NECESSITY OF MARRIAGE,
NOW HE HAS A BIG FAMILY.
OF course 1 suggested that the Ad-
miral might wed, but he shrugged
his shoulders and intimated that was
hardly necessary, now that he had a
"ready-made family"
II met most Of the children about
a year ago." said he. Some Of them
were in institutions; others in refugee
camps in Russia. At that time I was
United States High Commissioner at
Sebastopol. 1 am very fond of chill
dren, and I visited them many times
have no pets or particular favor
ties. want to love them all. There
is one little girl, however, Ninotchka
Rashivalina, five years old, who tags
me everywhere l go. Most of the
children walk ahead with the nurse,
but Ninotchka always slips her hand
into mine.
"As soon as I get the children and
the authorities here give me permis-
sion to take them to Washington"
continued the Admiral, 81 shall take
them directly to my home at No. 1921
l Street There my niece, who Is
twenty-siX years old, will be sort
of second mother to them. Then
1 shall keep the little Russian nurse,
Fogenia Selivanona, who is nineteen
and understands the psychology of
their little minds probably better than
any one else. And | shall also send
for my mother, who is in South
Carolina, TO come up and superin-
tend"
THAT will be three women and a
guardian for seven children" / said.
WILL GET DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC
SCHOOL EDUCATION.
"It ought to be-enough," nodded the
Admiral. AT first 1 shall teach the
children English. / speak Russian and
they already know a few words such
as knife and the names Of various
foods. Then just as soon as they have
mastered enough English, probably
next fall, l am going to put them
right into public school. / want them
70 begin in a democratic way"
"I suppose this last upheaval n
Russia, the new power Of the Boi-
sheviki, was instrumental in your
adopting the children, wasn't it?" J
asked.
"That made us leave at once" re-
piled Admiral McCully. II had been
looking after the children and writing
10 my niece tln lllOlIltI lllul III
tended to adopt several children, bur
last November things got so hot we
had to fly. l took them to COnstanti-
nople and then to Brest, from whence
we sailed"
How do your niece and your mother
feel about these new members Of the
family and the fact that you are going
TO give seven little Russian children
the McCully namSP"
Admiral McCully shrugged his
shoulders.
81 have been writing long letters
about my little friends, so / dare say
they rather expected this" was his
answer. you could hardly expect the
children to cling 10 their own names.
There Is the oldest boy, Nkolai Snou-
ror, eleven: then a girl, Ludmila
Manelzkaya, eleven; a girl, Anastasa
Shcrebatova ten; a girl, Nina Fur
man, ten; my little Ninuotchka Rashi-
valina, hve; a boy, Fedor Pasko, four.
and the baby Ninotchka Klimenko,
three"
At this point the Admiral was called
in "a testify for the Board Of Inquiry
Nikolai, the Oldest boy was busy
playing with his watch, a new Christ
mas gift from his "uncle," while the
baby lay asleep in the. nurses arms
But all the time the Admiral testl-
fled, as I stood in the back Of the
room, | noticed that the sparlillrg
black eyes OF little Ninotchka wCro
fun upon her Admiral Among all