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MISS L,U]\JS’rKAS’S JSABV-
liOUSE.
BY II. V.
It was a great big liouse with
nineteen little live babies in it,
and little Miss Lungstnis liv(;d
among them, and watched over
them, and took care of them just
like ii brown house sparrow. Her
liome is away across the ocean,
in Bonn on the Kliiiio, and there
she had lived many years with
her mother before she
baby-house. They
very happy together
time for her mother
began her
had been
until the
to live on
earth had passed, and Miss
Lungstras was left in this world
alone. She chose rather to have
little babies for pets, than oats or
birds or dogs or horses, for no
one can be happy to live quite
alone with nothing to love, d’hen
she knew of so many little babies
whose mothers were so poor tliat
they had to go out to work, in
stead of staying at home to take
care of them, that she couldn’t be
happy to think of their being
neglected and half starved, when
she had both time and money to
use as she pleased. But .she did
not have a great deal of money,
and though she had little cribs
and baby-carriages, there were
no pictures or easy chairs or
pianos in her house. Even then
she couldn’t take all the babies
wlio needed a place in the baby-
house.
Early in the morning Miss
Lungstras went to each little crib
with the morning breakfast, and
then by and by she and the few
mothers, whose babies were too
3-oung to leave, began to give the
morning baths. The babies kick
ed and splashed and cried or
laughed just as they liked, but
into the tub they all went, and
when they were all washed and
dried, and had had a funny little
flannel shirt on, they had another
milk breakfast, and were all put
to bed in the big nursery, wh.ere
nineteen little cribs stood in two
long rows. There the little things
lay, crowing and cooing until
they dropped asleep. The room
was seldom quite still, for it was
not long after tiie last one fell
asleep before one or two would
wake up and begin funny little
baby talks, while they waited to
be taken out for an airing, and to
have their early dinner. This
was about the time when the
doctors would come down for
their visit. Every day, too, a
batch of medical students were
sent in to learn how little babies
behaved, what they had to eat,
bow long they slept, how they
were dressed, and all sorts of
things that German professors
thought young men ought to
know before tliey should try to
make sick babies* well. So they
made Miss ljungstras help to] r.-
pare the J'oung men to be doc
tors, and theyr learned a great
deal from her, while she had a
great deal of fun all to herself at
the blunders they made, and the
odd questions they asked.
Each baby had a little square
feather bed laid over it instead of
sheets and blankets, and very of
ten a little bare leg would" be
quite uncovered ; but it it’,‘''the
old-fashioned way in Germany,
and seems to suit the German
babies, although I think Ameri
can ones would take cold if they'
were not snugly tucked into their
cribs.
When the babies were
very young indeed. Miss
Lungstras let the mothers
stay'to take care of their
own babies, and help her
with the others, but as each
cl ild grow to be six weeks
old the mother had to
leave it and go out to work.
As long as the baby stayed
at the baby-house, its
mother must give two-
thirds of her wages to pay'
for it, and w hen it grew to
bo a year old it must go
away to make room for
another little newborn babv.
So Miss Lungstras never
had anything but little biti
of babies who could neither
walk nor talk in her baby-
house, and had to do a great
deal more than jist p’ay
with them.
One little room in the
house W'as all filled with
the sew'ing that the babies
needed. T hero w ere
nightgowns there waiting to
be made, and socks to be
mended, and cloaks to bo
finished, and old clothes to
mend or cut over.
Miss Lungslras’s frien’s
would often go in for an
hour and sit down and s;w
in the little sewing-roo.r,
and perhaps pick up some
thing from the piled-up
shelves to take home and
make for her.
And sometimes some rich
THK MOTHER.
adv
would send in some money' which
w'ould be very gladly' used, for
the dear little lady' had not near
enough of her ow'n to pay the
rent of the nice sunny' liou.se, and
feed all the babies that she had
taken in. Whenever she found
herself running into debt, she
would be content witli fewer
babies, she said, but until then
she would bo happy taking care
of all her little nestlings, helping
the poor, sick, miserable mothers
to grow stronger and better in
mind and body', teaching them to
love Christ and try' to live like
Him. Then in odd corners of
her baby-house. Miss Lungstras
found room for some poor old
women, school-master-s’ widows 1
think they all were ; and there
they lived, and each one went
down to the kitchen to cook her
OiVn little messes as she liked
best, and wdien they felt lonely
they would go down to the luir-
seiy and help a little with the
babies, or talk to the mothers.
Miss Lungstras declared they
helped her a great deal and gave
her ever so much good advice.
Certainly the old ladies were very
happy tliere, and I have no doubt,
felt themselves very' useful and
important in helping Miss Lung
stras, who bad undertaken to take
care of nineteen little babies when
'B'EIE WOK't’SSY ’
no experience
she “ bad bad
herself.
To see Miss Lnngstras’s baby-
house, you must go away across
the ocean to Bonn on the Bhine,
and there in Weber strasse you
will find her with her nineteen
dear little babies. Tliey are muob
nicer and funnier than any' doll
babies vou ever saw. But tbeii
they' are a greft deal harder to
take care of, and need a great
deal of patience and love, so you
must be contented with common
dolls and little play baby-houses,
and have kittens and puppies for
pets until you are quite grown
up, and then you can have a
baby-house like Miss Lungstras,
and plenty of babies to put into
it too.—Yoitii(/ Chyhtkm Soldier.
BY MARY YIAPES BOUGH.
SPiiAK K».\1>EV.
A young bidv bad gone out to
A (toil' of morals, firm ami .sure, take a V'alli. Bbe forgot to take
Woiit out to,.seek the‘Avoflliy poor,” Aiei- inirse with her, and had no
“ Dear things!” she said, I’ll timl them | Presently
out,
Anil 011(1 tlieir woes, without a doulii.”
She wandered ea.st, she wandered we.st,
And many do.gs her vision blest,—
Some-weli-to-do, .some ricli indeed,
And .some—all! very much in need.
vSo ]ioor they wori*!—witltont a boin*,
Itnttered and footsore, .sad and lone:
Xo friends,no lielp. “Wliat lives they’ve
led,
To come to this!” onr doggie said.
"r onglit not to give to+liem; I’m .sure
The.v can not lie tlie wortli,(' jioor.
They must liave fonght or been dis-
.graced;
My elun ity must be well jdaecd.”
Some dog.s she found, quite to iiev mind;
So thrifty tliey—so .sleek and kind !
('Ah nu'!’’ sliesaid. “ wi're the,\'in mssl,
To help tlicni would he joy indeed.’’
’Twas the same, ihi.i' in, day out,—
The poorest do.gs were ]ioor, no doubt;
But they wm’o neither clean or wisi',
As .slie could see with half Iior eyes.
’Tis strange what faults come out to
view
'tVlien f Ik.sarc poor. She said,’Tis true
They need some help; but as for me,
I must not \vast(5 my charity.”
So home she went, and dropingla tear.
‘‘ I’ve (lone mv diit.v, that is clear:
I’ve searched and se:u'c.hed the -cillage
. round,
And not one ‘ worthy ])Oor’ I’c e found.”
And :ill this while, Ihe sick and lame
And hniigvy suffered id! the same.
Th(‘y were not pleasant, were not neat—
But she liad more than .she could eat!
And don’t yon think it was a. sin?
YVas Iku's the right w'ay to hegiii.’
Xo, no!—it w;[s not right, I’m sure,
For she w;is licli and they were poor.’’
O ye who have eiiongh to siiare!
To suffering give your ready (sire;
Waste not your charitable mood
Only in sifting out tlie good.
For, on tlie wliole, though it is riglft
To k(H‘p file (( worth,!' poor” in sight.
This world would run with scarce :
hitch
If all could liml tlie ‘worthy rich.’
Ax Exchange say's fasliionablo
y'oang people are calling upon
somebody' to invent a new dance.
Suppose ‘‘somebody” invents one
wherein the young lady dances
around the liouse and looks after
e.'ery thing.
she met a little girl with a basket
on her arm.
“ Please miss, will vou buy
something from m\' basket?” said
the little girl, showing a variety
of book-marks, watch-cases, nee
dle-books, etc.
“I’m sonw 1 can’t buv anvtliing
to-day,” said the young lady. “I
haven’t any money' wifh mo.
Your things look very' jiretty.”
Slio stojiped a moinetit, :nid spoke
a few kind works to the little girl ;
and then, as she passed, she said
again, “ I’m very sorry I can't
buy' afiv tiling from voti to-day ”
“O miss!” said tlie iittle girl,
“you’ve done me just as much
good as if yon bad. Most persons
that 1 meet say', ‘ Get aivay with
yon !’ but yofi liave spoken kindly
to me, and I ieel a liefip better.”
Timt was “ considering the
poor.” blow little it costs to do
that! Let us learn to speak
kindly and gentlv to the poor and
the suffering. If wo have nothing
else to give, let ns, at least, give
them our sy'mpatliy'.
•‘ Speak geiitl.y, kiiiiU.v, to the poor;
i.(‘t no hrir.sli tone be In'ard;
TIh'v have eiiongh the.v must endure,
M itliout an unkiiiil word.
Spealc gently ; for ’tis liki‘ the Lord,
M'ho.se aeeents meek and mild
Be.spoke him a.s the Bon of (lod,
The graeious, liolj' child.”
NO'l' Sitl.AK'l' EAOUfciH.
Some wags were walking a-
ronnd an agricultural implement
store, and tiiey chanced to see in
the rear a dressed bog Langing bv
a hook in the wall. “Ila! ha f”
cried they' to the young man in
attendance, “what sort of an agri-
c iltural impleinent do you call
that?”
“ That,” said he, “is a patent
combined root grubber, corn sliel-
ler, apple grinder, g'ate lifter,
double action, back spring, sod
plough; but I guess you won’t
want one, for it takes a mighty
smart man to manage ‘em.”
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