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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1914)
Onions Are Cheaper. Mrs. Hetty Green on her seventy eighth birthday anniversary told a re porter that she put more faith in on ions than in doctors. An onion was her recipe for colds, coughs, insomnia, nerves and many other maladies. "An onion," she added, “is a better friend to you- *jocketbook than a doc tor, too. "A yount tady was studying to bo a nurse, and she said one day to a popular surgeon: “ "What did you operate on Mr. Socis for?' " 'For *::,000,’ the surgeon answered. "The young nurse smiled. "‘No,’ she said; I mean what did he have?’ “ ‘Three thousand dollars,' was the surgeon’s reply." SCALP TROUBLE FOR YEARS 268 Harrison St., Elyria, Ohio.—"My case was a scalp trouble. I first no ticed small bunches on my scalp which commenced to itch and I would scratch them and in time they got larger, forming a scale or scab with a little pus, and chunks of hair would come out when I would scratch them ofT. It caused me to lose most of my hair. It became thin and dry and life less. I was troubled for over ten years with it until it got so bad I wa» ashamed to go to a barber to get my hair cut. "I tried everything I could get hold of,-and-, but received no cure until I commenced using Cuticu ra Soap and Ointment when the scale commenced to disappear. The way I used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment was to wash my scalp twice a day with warm water and Cuticura Soap and rub on the Cuticura Ointment. I received benefit in a couple of weeks and was cured in two months." (Signed) F. J. Busher, Jan. 28, 1913. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv. At the Boarding House. “It’s hard," said the sentimental landlady at the dinner table, "to think that this poor little lamb should be destroyed in its youth jHst to cater to our appetites.” "Yes," replied the smart boarder, struggling with his portion, "it is tough." Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invig orate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe. Adv. Looks That Way. “If we are good we will come back to earth a number of time.” “Some people prefer to take no chnnces on that possibility." “How’s that?” “They prefer to load double lives now.”—Courier Journal. Of a Wild Nature. Just outside the entrance to the yard at the Naval academy Is an apartment house where many young officers live, and baby carriages are a not infrequent sight in this vicinity. Not long ago the commander of the yard had a notice posted on one side of the gato forbidding automobiles to enter, because they frightened the horses. Shortly afterwards the fol lowing unofficial notice appeared on the other side of the gate: “Baby carriages and perambulators not allowed in this yard. They scare the bachelors.” DC51 Ol Mil UIT18. A little boy In a big metropolitan Sunday school listened eagerly while the superintendent talking of missions urged every one present to contribute to the cause. "Give what you can, not what you want,” he concluded his exhortation. "Give generously and of your best." Little Joseph, taking the exhortation literally and being penniless, wrote on the slip passed out for depositing in the pledge box: "Please, sir, I give myself." WONDERED WHY. Found the Answer Was "Coffee.” Many pale, sickly persons wonder for years why they have to suffer so, and eventually discover that the drug —caffeine—In coffee is the main cause of the trouble. “I was always very fond of coffee and drank It every day. I never had much flesh and often wondered why 1 was always so pale, thin and weak. "About five years ago my health completely broke down and I was con fined to my bed. My stomach was In such condition that I could hardly take sufficient nourishment to sustain life. "During this time I was drinking coffee, didn’t think I could do without ft. “After awhile I came to the conclu sion that coffee was hurting me, and decided to give It up and try Postum. When It was made right—dark and rich—I soon became very fond of It. , “In one week I began to feel better. I could eat more and sleep better. My sick headaches were less frequent, and within five months I looked and felt like a new being, headache spells en tirely gone. “My health continued to Improve and today I am well and strong, weigh 148 lbs. I attribute my present health to the life-giving qualities of Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well vllle,” in pkgs. Postum now comes In two forms: Regular Postum—must be well boiled. Instant Postum—Is a soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage Instantly. Grocers sell both k'nds. “There’s a Reason” tor Postum. JOHNSON, WOOD, WADDELL, JOSS AND WALSH CALLED DANGEROUS E2 I r" LEFT TO RIGHT—JOE WOOD, ED WALSH AND WALTER JOHNSON. Larry Lajoie, of the Cleveland Nape, In ranking the pitchers he has faced during the last 18 years, placet Walter Johnson, of Washington, at the top of the heap. Joe Wood and Rube Waddell are tied for second, and Addis Joss and Ed Walah are tied for third place. • -----————— ~ FEDERAL LEAGUE IS STILL AN UNCERTAINTY enjoy Just about as well Is playing single handed against the Harvard football team under an agreement that, if we win, we could play Notre Dame. With thoughts of colleges and bil liards rattling together, the question 1 bobs up: Why not an inter-cellegiate billiard tournament? Net a college In the land is without several dozen en thusiasts at the cue game. Let. any one who doubts this visit a billiard hall near any big institution of learn ing and take a look around. Generally there are three or four who outclass all their fellow students In prowess on the green cloth, and who can" play good enough billiards, representing their alma mater, to attract a gather ing which would All any auditorium where such an intercollegiate hlatch could be staged. Some booster ef the game In one of the big cities ought to get busy q.nd sound the sentiment on the question. Bet the students would be willing and eager to go to it. Mr. Bryan and Happiness. From the Washington Star. Introduced for an address at a dinner in Philadelphia Saturday night as “the next president of the United States,” Mr. Bry an put aside the compliment and gently chided the toastmaster. He characterized the compliment as mere habit, as, indeed, It was. So many times in the past 17) years has that compliment been paid! And many times it was agreeable. But not now. Nobody, sees more clearly than Mr. Bryan that If the next president of the| United States—the man elected in 1916—is* a democrat, his name will be Woodrow Wilson. He Is doing his best to bring thatj to pass. All that In him is—as executive and as orator—Is at Mr. Wilson’s service: and if the administration scores and has ltsMease of power lengthened, nothing will be more likely than the retention of Mr. Bryan in the state department. As to 1920 —but that is too distant for purposes of speculation. But if the toastmaster Jollied Mr. Bry an. Mr. Bryan retorted, and jollied the company Take this from his address: “I am happy, and I want you all to be lieve me when I say so, to see those things so near my heart being done by another—happier than If I were In that place. “I am happy to see a nation of people change its point of view and adopt those things which have alwayB been close to my heart.” We may believe Mr. Bryan Is happy. He ought to be. The country—although by a minority vote—did adopt last No vember many of those things which have always been close to his heart. More over. it elected president a man he had converted to an acceptance of those things. It was Mr. Bryan who, single handed, turned Mr. Wilson from Cleve landlsm to Bryanlsm. and then bestowed upon him the Baltimore nomination. And, so far, Mr. Wilson in office has been steer ing by the chart of Bryanlsm. But is Mr. Bryan happier In seeing Mr. Wilson thus perform than he would be if performing in the White House himself? He Is human. For 16 years he pulled every string he could reach In an effort to di rect in person the Inauguration and the carrying out of the Bryanite policies. The ambition was altogether honorable, and he appealed for aid to many quarters. He did not Ignore even Tammany, and Tam many responded. Under both Prophet Croker and Prophet Murphy, Tammany did all It could by Tammany means for the party ticket. Mr. Bryan must have been bitterly dis appointed at the refusal of the electorate three times to accept his policies from his own hands: and that feeling cannot have been transformed Into one of complete happiness by the acceptance of them from the hands of a substitute. He may be happy, but he cannot be supremely happy. At Philadelphia he simply “saw” the toastmaster's Jolly, and went him one bet ter. HERE’S NEW SPRING HAT FROM PARIS I_I A Outlaw Organization Is Not So Much of a Sure Thing as Some Would Believe. MACK’S SPORTING LETTER New York. Special: Information from an authoritative source is to the effect that the Federal league, despite high Bounding declarations and proclama tions, Is not so much of n sure thing as some persons would have us believe. The powers that be In organized base ball are better aware of Che real sit uation than appears pn the surface, which accounts for their failure to “worry aloud.” The fate of the outlaws hinges en tirely on the attitude of one man, ac cording to word from the Inner coun cils of the organization. His name Is Otto F. Stifel. This wealthy St. Louis brewer Is the one man connected with the league who has really opened up a purse of any considerable size, and last year he was “in up to his neck.” not only In the St. Louis club, with which his name was associated pub licly, but In nearly every other club of the circuit. He was the "life In surance” of the outfit and came to the rescue whenever first aid was called I for. Several names known more or less as those of men with money have 1 is .> coupled publicly with the outlaw league but It Is now learned that in v . ri case one or two conditions exist. I :Uh; r Mr. Interested Party has not as m u. li coin as ho gets credit for hevh-g. ci he refuses to open up to nri e-t-in pic , •ssary to make things go propi-rlv. I hi’ ; Stifel has "produced” in the past, tils' the conditions are such now that if he does not continue to pour out lb golden stream, things will go to smash with the Federal^—either the league will go out of existence entirely, or It will subside to the low grade affair (t was In Its Infancy, to stay there un til It dwindles to nothing. | When baseball men not in the know wonder whether there is enough money behind the out laws, all they need to do to set them selves right Is to take a look at the procession of wagons carrying bottled and keg beer from Stlfel's brewery In St. Louis. Enough money Is earned by that one venture alone to finance the entire league, which was just what . happened Inst year. | Now comes word thnt Stifel Is thlnk I ing of quitting the Federate. It Is de clared he has lost his enthusiasm In the affair and that he has changed from an extreme optimist into a rank pessimist. As a matter of fact, he made up his mind at one time during the recent meeting of the league in St. Louis thnt he was through and would get out. The other “magnates” of the league talked to him until they were blue In the face. They could not per Buade him to promise he would stay In for good and all to the bitter end, but he did agree to reconsider. He has been reconsidering ever since, but just now his intentions, it can be stated positively, are to quit. Ho may change his mind again and decide to stick it out, and It Is a sure thing that evehy effort will ho made to keep him In line. But he has arrived at the point where he has to "be shown,” having been born and raised In Missouri. A tip from Ed Barrow, president of the International league, is to the ef fect that Hugh J. Borty will be a big league umpire by the middle of next season, or 1915 at the latest. Rorty officiated In the New England lenguo lust summer and now Is signed to work in the International during the coming campaign. Rorty Is unusually well recommended, and Barrow Is giving him the International league job to school him a little more In the duties of an umpire until properly primed for service with the mayors. Accord ing to reports from New England way Rorty looks more efficient now than Klein and Evans did when at a like stage In their careers. It seems ridiculous to speak of Connie Mack's bashful and retiring disposition when one thinks of Johnny Kling. Kllng is about the most re tiring man In baseball history. His announcement a few days ago was his seventh annua! one. A glance over tho official averages of the American association reveals the fact that Jack Powell, the former star of the American league, has not lost his speed as a baserunner. Powell, who was with Louisville last year, stole his annual base just as he had done for many years. His batting eye also was about as good as ever, for he hit .181. Probably one mistake was made in the averages, however, for Jack's name couhl not be found in the list of the 10 leading sluggers. Still Powell always could pitch some and is a mighty valuable man to have hanging around. After being called the Clark Griffith of the Southern league, Otto Jordan has been fired by the Atlanta club, tc take hold as manager of the Dallas clut of the Texas league the coming season. Jordan, like Griffith in the big leagues, always has been able to keep his team up near the top, but never could pilot It Into a pennant. The eyes of the fight world will be turned westward next Wednesday when Jess Willard, the Texas heavy weight, Is placed on trial for the death of "Bill" Young, who died In the ring after being hit by one of the cow puncher's blows. It is the second sensational affair of the kind In a year, the other being the trial of Arthur Pelky for the death of Luther Mc Carty In Alberta last May. There are very few men In the east who can figure out any way that Willard can be called guilty on any legal charge, for, they say, he surely was not trying to kill Young or even to do him real bodily harm. Also the condition of Young when he entered the ring is likely to be taken into consideration. From a distance it looks to boxing fol lowers as if the same kind of defense that won for Pelky in Canada would clear Willard and absolve him from blame. Tuesday nights now are the popular one for the staging of bouts in south ern California, particularly by Tom McCarey, the Los Angeles promoter, who puts on all his big shows at the Vernon arena, just outside the city limits. Uncle Tom now has set Jan uary 13, which is a Tuesday night, as tlie time for the start of Ills middle weight championship tournament. ’Imaiy Clabby and Jack Dillon will start the ball rolling, and a month later the winner will he pitted against '"oh McAllister of San Francisco. These fights will develop. It is hoped, a worthy opponent for George Chip, who has twice decisively beaten Frank Xlaus. It ?Ike Gibbons has also been Invited to titer McCnrey's tourney, but not a Min from the St. Paul shadow In •epiy. Word from Australia telling about effort* to match Hurry Stone of New York with Matt Wells, the English lightweight and former holder of the I oicl Lonsdale championship belt, re inlls the meteoric career of the young Gothamite since he entered the game. Less than three years ago Stone was a preliminary fighter. The writer had the good fortune of witnessing his first ap pearance in a "star" bout when he hooked up with Benny Franklin of the lower east side in the Olympic Athletic club, In Harlem. Stone showed crudity In some of the stereotyped things that a man must learn by practice and being told, but he had a remarkable resource fulness and appeared a natural born boxer. So that now, though practically an unknown in his own country, he has set Australia afire by his clever work, beating the favorite, Hook Keys, and Johnny Summers, the English welterweight champion, twice. When Stone comes back home, If he owns a victory over Matt Wells, too, by that time, ho must be rated nmong the very best of American welters, de spite the small amount of publicity that has been given to his name. And he is Just the type of boxer to become pop ular with the fans here when they learn to recognize him. He is a typical Joe Gans In practically everything except in complexion, about the same height, has the same long arms and legs and boxes in the same general style—which In Its last analysis means every style. If Stone has a weakness. It has not been discovered In Australia yet. If you should happen to feel the earth trembling, as if the old planet were un balanced. don't worry about earth quakes or such. It will be only Jim Jeffries going around the world. Some one should take Bob Fitzsim mons by the hand and lead him away from temptation. The other night at a local club he watched several pairs of "white hopes" perform, and Imme diately announced that he would start training again. Bob was a great fighter. Everybody knows that. But he would last maybe part of one round against any of the present crop of huskies. Not that they are greater fighters than Bob was— spare the thought—but simply because Fitz Is all In. He should have bet ter sense. One never hears of level headed fellows such as Jim Corbett talking that kind of nonsense. Yale and the Carlisle Indians offer quite a contrast in a football way. The Blue will play only one game away from home next season—that with Princeton—whereas the redskins have played and always will play every game of any consequence abroad. There is a beautiful little prospect confronting Charley Morin, of Chicago, who battles Alfredo DeOro, the cham pion, for the three-cushion billiard title in Chicago on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Whichever one wins will have to meet Willie Hoppe later on, the balk line king having made up his mind to ge out after the new honors. That is our idea of nothing to cheer about—having to meet DeOro. and the reward offered a chance to meet youthDil William. Another little pastime trait we would This photograph, the first to be received from Paris, gives an idea of what the creators of fashionable spring millinery are showing now in advanced spring hats. A model cf black straw trimmed with a cocarde of black taffeta and two large jet pins RIGHTS OF CHILDREN Mary Mortimer Maxwell Tells in London Chronicle How i Hungary Cares for “Forsaken Ones—Humanity j "*• Nation’s First Concern. 1 ! BY MARY MORTIMER MAXWELL A baby lay In a little white box-bed, Its blue eyea lighted with one of those wonderfully beautiful smiles which sometimes take us by surprise in an Infant so very young, for this one was but 2 months old. It smiled and smiled and smiled, it seemed, for the very Joy of having been born, and its tiny Angers clasped and unclasped them selves over little drops of water that trickled down upon them. What a jolly game was this—these little spatters and splashes upon the baby’s hands, and the baby couldn’t seem to catch a single one of them as it fell. A girl of 17 or 18 leaned over the baby in the white box-bed. The baby was pretty, but the girl was not. The baby was fair, and the girl was dark. The baby were dainty white and the girl wore coarse pink. She was an ordinary looking little Hungarian peas ant girl, and mother to the baby. The drops of water that fell upon the baby’s hands, that made such a game for the bay to play, were tears wail ing from her eyes. What a sight—the baby so brimming over with jollity, the mother so full of sorrow, that while she wept above the baby, her lips were moaning and her shoulders shaking. I could not speak to the girl In her native Hungarian tongue, so I asked her through an interpreter why she was so unhappy with such a wonderful baby for son and for companion, and the interpreter answered: "She says she has no milk and can not suckle the baby, so they won’t take her to the colony with it. She’ll have to let it go without her.” The State and the Child, It was at the Budapest State asy lum for forsaken children that I saw this mother and her baby. If you know nothing of the state's care for children in Hungary, you will won der how a child cared for by its moth er in this way could properly come under the descriptive term “forsaken.” Well, in Hungary, where the chil dren of the poor are better cared for than in any other county in the world, the term "forsaken child” includes the following: The child of a poor widow. The child of a forsaken wife. The child whose mother is dead and father unable to provide for it. The child of parents who cannot work or who will not work. The child who is uncontrollable by parents or guardians. The child of a poor unmarried mother. Under the latter description came the smiling, blue eyed baby, beloved of Its mother, unrecognized, perhaps even unknown, by Its father. Through the interpreter the peasant girl told me that she had hoped to keep her baby and feed It by the bottle. She herself lived with her mother, who worked by the day. but now both she and her mother were out of a situa tion, and she could not tell if she could even continue to buy milk for the baby’s bottle. She would like to go to the colony with the baby. The state was good, and wished very much that she could. So much did the state wish this that it would provide both her and the baby with a nice home for nine months till the baby could be weaned. The state would pay for her board, and lodging while she nursed the baby and made it big and strong, but alas, it was a bottle baby, and the state could not be expected to pay for mothers to go along with their babies just to fill and wash out their bottles. The little peasant mother did not complain. The state, indeed, was good to her. It would pay her expenses to accompany the baby to its new foster parents, so that she could see what sort of people would bring up her baby; the state would allow her to visit the baby at her own expenses as often as she could do so, and when she was able to provide properly for the baby, she might have it back for the asking. Yes, the state was good and kind, but still the little peasant girl dropped tears upon the baby’s hands, and the baby went on smiling. sent to the higher schools to continue their education and the girls to board ing schools. Thus the right of forsaken children to rise even to heights of fame is recognized by the state. Sixty per cent of all the children are boarded in the home ef small farmers, 20 per cent with artisans, 11 pjer cent with agricultural laborers, 3 per cent with small shopkeepers, and the smalj remainder with people in other trades* The majority of the boys stay on the farms or become artisans, while many of the girls remain for years with their foster-mothers assisting in the house hold work. Some of them, however, take situations as domestic servants in the hemes of the well-to-do Hungar ians. Refractory boys and girls are put in reformatory or Industrial schools. It will be seen that almost every con tingency has been considered and pro vided for. The various homes to which the children are sent are chosen by a state official and a physician, while in each colony there is a state physician and a state nurse to care for the chil dren in times of illness. It is also the duty of the state nurse to visit the homes where the children are boarded, to give instructions in the matter of hygienic feeding and cleanliness, and to see that the children are not kept from attending school and do not play truant. This nurse must also see that where the children are given tasks to do their strength is not over taxed, for it is the desire of the state to father healthy, strong, able bodied boys and girls. This state nurse also studies the child's aptitude for any special trade or avocation, and reports to the state upon it. Where young Infants are sent to these various colonies, in 57 cases out of 100 during the year, the mother went with the child and suckled it. and it has been noted that under such cir cumstances only 16 per cent of the chil dren have died. The state, therefore, makes strong inducements to the mother to remain with her child, pro viding her not only with board and lodging, but sometimes even paying her for her services as nurse to her child, and in the asylums where she remains with the child for some time, she is hired to suckle another child, if her strength and health permit of it. The feeding of any babies by bottle is only tolerated when it is absolutely es sential. When the mother does not ac company her child during the early months, then care is taken to place the child in the home of a woman who has a young child of her own and is willing to nurse both her own child and the foster child. Amongst those who study the Hun garian state system of providing for forsaken children there are, of course, some who. while admiring it yet shake their heads over its possible result in encouraging the propagation of the un fit both amongst married and unmar ried parents. Certain it is that large numbers of mothers return again and again to the state asylum, bringing with them newly born babies for which they declare themselves unable to pro vide. “Why are you doing all this?” I asked an Hungarian who was speaking' with pride of the state’s care of its for saken children. His reply was frank in the extreme. “Because, said he. "Hungary wants pebple and people and more people, most especially men to become soldiers to fight. Shall we ever be free from Austria without many, many soldiers? So we take care of the children that the boys may be soldiers and the girls breed more soldiers." "But what bout the unfit children, the weak and diseased ones?" I asked. “Oh,” he said with a shrug, "some of the weaklings might be geniuses, and the other weaklings will die off, and the rest will bo soldiers and breed soldiers!” - After all, an investigation into this question gives one most furiously to ponder upon certain aspects of it. Busy Railroad Terminals. From Engineering News. The busiest railway terminal In this country is the South station of Boston, which handles more trains, passengers, baggage and mail in a day than any other station. The largest railway sta tion in this country in point of size is the recently complete Grand Central terminal in New York city. These two stations are at the termini of the New Vork. New Haven & Hartford railroad, which railroad shares the former sta tion with the Boston & Albany rail road, and the latter with the New York Central railroad. The total number of passengers in and out of the South station from July. 1912, to June, 1913, exceeded 28.000,080: the number in and out of the Grand Central exceeded 22. 000,000. Almost twice as many trains are handled each day at the South sta tion as at the Grand Central, but the number of cars a train is greater at the latter. In spite of this tremendous traffic, the passenger facilities of the Grand Central are far from taxed; al though at the present time about 62,000 persons use it daily, when completed the station will have capacity to handle 70,000 an hour. Twenty-one tracks have still to be completed at this sta tion, whereas at the South station In Boston all the tracks are now in use, with the exception of the twi« suburban loop tracks, whose operation must await electrification. Re-Educatina the Subconscious Mind Walter De Voe, in Nautilus. The practice of writing out one’s thoughts daily is a splendid means of psycho-analysis whereby one can dis cover many things that are hidden in the sub-conscious mir i. and uncover hidden talent as weT as the morbid things which must oe traced up In order to be dissolved. The process of writing holds the Attention to the sub ject, and thus develops mental concen tration and ovotcomes mind wander ing. If one usee it as a means of form ulating original thoughts, he can give a deep realization of the conscious wis dom of his soul and uncover talents which antedate his physical existence —memories of soul powers developed In former lives. But Its greatest use fulness Is as a means of developing the mind to think Into clear expression those qualities of the supra-conscious self which lie latent and ready to spring forth through all the sub-conscious and conscious channels of the nature as a. mighty healing vitality, fresh from th» eternal source. Stepping Oft Car Backward. From the Electric Railway Journal. In a Kansas City court Judge Bird held In the suit of Alice L. Hulen against the Metropolitan Street Rail way for $20,000 that she can collect no damages because she stepped off a street car backward. The court stated that there was ‘no excase for tha woman’s act In view of the wide pub licity which the correct methoda of alighting from cart had received. tiaoy woiomes. Yes, Hungary Is kind to its forsaken babies, and In that country there is no talk of "charity" In regard to the care of the children. They talk there of “children’s rights,” and this system of looking after children’s rights was es tablished In 1899, the idea being orig inated by Szell Kalman, minister tot what we would call home affairs. Be fore the year 1899 there were many child-murders in Hungary. Married parent who either had not the means or the will to provide for their children, murdered them, while unmarried moth ers, to rid thmselves of both the In convenience and the shame, killed theirs also. Now, 1 am told, child-mur der is almost, if not entirely, unknown In Hungary, fcr to all Its forsaken children between the ages of one day and 15 years the state has become a provident father. At the present time 60,000 children are being cared for by the state, and during the past year 8,000 were received Into the Budapest asylum alone. This particular asylum is na-re of a receiv ing station than anything else. The healthy children come in one day and are sent away the next, some to cer tain other asylums which are not over crowded, and some directly to the fos terparents who are waiting ready to take them. Scattered throughout Hun gary there are 17 of these asylums. From these asylums the children are sent out to the various villlages, where special arrangements have been made for their reception, these villages being known as "colonies.” When a (faby or child of any age is brought,ft, an asy lum It Is first weighed tfld measured and then given a bath. If accompanied by the mother she also 1( given a bath. If the child Is an infant \jnder the age of nine months, every eff ort Is made to Induce the mother to accompany It to its new home In order that she may suckle It, and during the period of her nursing the child the state pays out for her maintenance ai^a that of the child, from 18 to 20 kroners, or about 17s per month. For the child alone 8s 6d Is paid per mo jth until It Is two years old. Children from two to seven years of age are paid for at Rbout the rate of 7s. per month, while those from seven to 12 return to the old Infantile rate of 8s 6d. The Right of the Child. In this way the state provides for the child up to the age or 12. after which he or she Is supposed ta earn board and lodgings by the assistance rendered the foster parents. Yet tne state keeps a fatherly eye of supervision upon each girl and boy till the age of 15, and dur ing all these years inspectors from the state are specially sent out twice year ly to visit every homo where a child has been taken to sae that it is well and kindly created, and '.Oat its education (for it Is stipulated taat the child shall be sent to school) eg progressing. If a child, either boy or girl, shows great talent or gifts of an extraordinary na ture In any direction, the state con tinues to pay for it even after It has passed the age of \2, the boys being