Kansas Children's Home Finder from Topeka, Kansas • 5

ly, and this is habit, one of the best allies in well-doing that any mortal can have. Take the habit of church going, for instance. If one begins in childhood, and keeps on steadily, it becomes such a matter of course that he will attend Sunday services, that the question does not come up each wreek to settle, according to the state of the weather or of his own feelings. The very best people sometimes fail to take pleasure in duty, but where cr.e decs r.ot step to consider preferences, or even to summon his principles, the momentum of good habit will carry him on the way that he should go, Young people who are forming their habits should keep this in mind. What a comfort it is that good habits as well as wrong ones are binding.

Keep on in right doing and it will become easier by and by. It is always easier to keep on than to make a start. Do you say that this is not a high standard or a lofty motive? To be sure one aught to do right for rights sake and for the love of it, but there is feebleness about human nature which makes it unlikely that such motives will always prevail. Then it is a fine thing to have the right re-inforced by a good habit that has a compelling power to it, and sets one in the way of receiving help when mere preference would not be strong enough to give the push needed. Be sure to count this momentum among your forces.

Young People. ft THE HOME A DEFENSE. A mighty defense for a young man is a good home. Some of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it.

But all the fresco on princely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted on fashionable country seat so attractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farm house and sang under the weeping willows. No barred gateway, adorned with statue or bronze, and swrung open by obsequious porter, in full dress, has half the glory of the swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There you bnilt the first family altar.

There your children were born. All those trees you planted. That room is solemn because once in it, over the hot pillow, flapped the wing of death. Under that roof you expect when your work is done to lie down and die. You try with many words to tell the excellency of the place, but you fail.

There is only one word in the language that can describe your meaning. It is home. Talmadge. cases, detaining the child in a temporary home for a while seriously impairs the pi ospect of a happy and contented domestic adjustment. The Iowa Childrens Home Society is second to none of the organizations within this country.

It has successfully solved the homeless child problem in more than two thousand instances, and is doing better work now and more of it than ever before. Dr. Slingerland is a man of method and his work in its detail gives evidence that he is the right man in thewigh place. God bless the Iowa Childrens Home Society and all who have a part in the great rescue work in which it is engaged. IP WELCOME CALLER.

Mr. Frederick King, Western Attorney and Agent of New Yorks Childrens Aid Society, has been in Topeka for a few days and made this office a pleasant call. Mr. King has been with our State Board of Charities arranging with them a satisfactory basis upon which outside corporations can place children in the state of Kansas. It will be remembered that recent legislation prescribed that no association which is incorporated under the laws of any other state shall place any child in any home in Kansas unless said association shall have fnrnished the State Board of Chati-ties with such guaranty as they may require, etc.

etc. Mr. Kings mission was to get the Board of Charities to fix that guaranty so that outsiders might know the terms prescribed and govern themselves accordingly. The Board after carefully considering the whole matter, fixed the guaranty at a bond of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars. Hereafter all societies, corporations and individuals desiring to place children in homes in the state of Kansas must first file with the Auditor of the state an approved bond of $10,000 and then they can place children in this state, but only in strict compliance with the law governing such placements.

Outside parties who have been placing children in this state will da well to observe this law in the future. The New York Childrens Aid Society will file such a bond in the near future. Others will probably do likewise. But all placed children will beheld strictly to the letter of the law by the Board of Charities. MOMEMTUM OF HABIT.

It takes continuons and often an increasing force to overcome inertia. This is especially true in human nature, and it makes what has been called the mo-memtum of habit, one of the essentials of good character. An act perpetually repeated gathers strength enough to repeat itself instinctively and involuntari the district, and the work consequently lags. It is expected that a new man will he put in charge of this district by fall, and then better things can confidently be looked for. WESTERN KANSAS.

There is prospect now that the western half of Kansas will be formally entered upon in the near future. We have two men who are thinking of taking up the work there. One in the northwest dis- trist and the other in the southwest district. This will be new work and is something of an experiment, but, from all reports, we believe the time has come to enter this large territory nearly two hundred miles square. Sparcely settled it is true, but there are excellent Christian homes in that part of the state wanting children and some of the largest contributions to the work have been made by just such homes who have lived for years in that part of the state.

We confidently bespeak for these brethren as they go into this territory a very cordial welcome and a very liberal support. A VISIT TO OUR NEIGHBORS. The state superintendent of the Kansas Childrens Home Society spent a couple of weeks the latter part of May in Iowa, and incidentally visited the headquarters of the Iowa Childrens ome Society, at Des Moines, had a very pleasant visit withBro.Slingerland and family, and learned a good many things of their work and their methods. The Iowa society, following the lead of some other states, has erected a large building, which to all practical purposes, is an orphans home. Not exactly be1 cause they were compelled to do this in order to provide temporary lodging for their children, because they have a great many more calls for children than they have children with which to supply this demand, but because, the public will contribute more readily and more liberally to the work when there is a building which can be seen, and they can visit it, and whose proportions commends the work to the pride as well as the confidence of its friends.

I somewhat questioned the supposed facts underlying the motives impelling the Iowa and ther societies to build equip and operate these large institutions. For my part I wishthatnoneof our state organizations had started this inovation and hope the day will never come when Kansas will feel called upon to follow suit. The family is the place for the child. When any child is found outside of a family home, we should see that it is re-established in that relationship as speedily and directly as possible. I am thoroughly convinced that while in some cases a child is benefited by being liJd for awhile before 4 placing it in a home, that in many other.