New-York tribune., 1921-05-23
L iirst English
E'il grim Baby
Is Given Home
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Their histories will be detailed to
prospective parents. They are not all
orphans, but most or them are of good
family.
These little ambassadors, as they are
called by their benefactors, held an
official reception yesterday afternoon
at Miss Spence's school. After the
fashion of diplomats, they had all sorts
OF well known people call upon them.
They were brought down from the
nursery to the drawing room in their
very best regalla, and it was not the
twins fault that they bumped their
heads together over the feet of a we'll
known physician and made him spill
his tea. Never were ambassadors more
frolicsome at an official reception than
Roland and Franklin, the heavenly
twins of eighteen months. 1t did not
worry them q bit that they were being
carefully studied, and that in the gath
erlng were men and women who might
soon be their parents. They just Choir
tied happily and fell over any one who
got in the way of their erratic progress.
The girls took more kindly to being
cooed over and loved. Joan responded
vivaciously to the dozens of kisses be-
Valerie, frail and exquisite, lay back
and received attentions languidly.
Betty the tiniest of all, just blinked
and gurgled.
'Finel Splendid!" said one old
gentleman, pinching Valeria's cheek.
'Never saw better children in my life.
Seems to me few people are good
enough to have such lovely children as
these"
After the reception the babies we're
removed to the nursery. Here they
held an overflow meeting and were able
to exhibit their new toys. They are
the pets of all the girls in Miss Spence's
school One student wrote to her
mother: "Never mind about sending
me pearls for graduation, but do let
me adopt one of the pilgrim babies"
Three of the babies are at the Alice
Chaplin Nursery, 300 Lexington Ave
nue.. Eileen, twenty-six months old, is
considered the belle of the party. She
is certainly the most vivacious. Her
custodians think it is going to be a
dlfhcult matter getting Eileen settled,
Tor she has pronounced ideas of her
own as to what she wants AS soon as
man comes in sight she preens her
sen, plays with h;s watch chain, cuddles
up against his collar and mumbles bahv
talk in his ear. A woman does not in.
terest her. But the little firt cries
Justify when any of her masculine ad
mirers leave her.
Hannah, sixteen months old sits IN
a rocker and looks demure. She has
has not been known to crv since she
ieft England. Susanne, only two
months of age, is more interested in
her bottle than in the external thinrs
OF life. Her mother is alive and when
she was coming away the baby was
given hamper of clothes beautifulIv
embroidered by hand. All the babies
came with extensive wardrobes of thei,,
own. One baby is at the Free Svna-
gogue Child Adoption Nursery and
four others are at the Spence Alum
nae Adoption Nursery, East Sixtv-sec-
ond Street
Il presume that as the children
come to years of discretion their fos-
ter parents will tell them where thev
came from, and believe this is going
to be factor in bringing the twS
countries together" said Miss Plows-
Day, who is one of the originators of
the movement, yesterday
Requests for the babies are so mn
merous that more will be brought from
England shortly. The first contingent
was an experiment and results Rave
been so satisfactory that the commit.
tee is determined to go ahead with
the work