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

I here. You will want to know about that dear child Stella. I am glad to inform you that she is well, and likes her new home. She says she will never go back to Kansas. She enjoyed the train ride, never got tired.

Everybody likes Stella and has a kind word for her. She is growing so fast. She goes to Sunday School and church and loves to go. It will be childrens day tomorrow and she has a little speech to say and I think she will say it Stella says to tell you she has a little kitty and a dog, and grandpa gave her a little white lamb, it is cute. She says she loves papa and mama.

She was sorry she did not get to see Mr. Anderson, before she left Kansas. She can sing well, I think she will be a nice singer. I will close for this time, Yours respectfully, Mrs. A.

F. Please send my paper here. I miss it, I like to read the paper. Do you think I would have any success to try and get money, for the Childrens Home Society. I have often thought about it.

Please let me know. I might try and do some good. I thank you for this dear child. She is a good child. Kev O.

S. Morrow. Dear Friend: I suppose you are anxious to hear from our little girl, since the flood. We took Gladys up on the hills and out to our folks when the water began to rise. Gladys is well and seems to be happy, she is in my lap now, Rev.

Sherman was to see us and baby not long ago and in the evening we took Gladys to church. He can tell you what a nice little girl we have. She only weighs 20 lbs. We will have her picture taken before long now and send one to you. Gladys has not been very sick since we have had her.

She is a very healthy child. We are beginning to forget that she is adopted. Well we must close now. Excuse us if we have waited too long before writing. We remain your friend, Mr.

Mrs THINGS TO BE REITEiTBERED. Families taking children on trial often make the mistake, when the child first comes into their home, of indulging it beyond reason. They think it is not necessary to insist upon obedience from the start, lest the child should not like them. A greater mistake can scarcely be made. Be firm, yet kind, and you will find the outcome satisfactory in the end.

Remember it is no kindness to indulge a child until it thinks itself master of the home and for that reason insist on returning it to the Society. Indeed, it is a great injustice to the little one. Every time a child makes a change, it is time lost in its life. Let it be remem CHILDRENS CORNER- Rev. o.

s. Morrow, My Dear Friend: I thought I would answer your kind letier I received sometime ago. I will have to ask you to excuse me for not writing sooner. I have been careless of late in my writing, but 1 wished to get you those subscribers before I wrote. I had my picture taken, and I also wished to send you one of those, but have not received them yet.

Will send it later on. I am getting along very nicely, and growing fast. I will be fourteen next September and Eva will be sixteen I think. I am going to write to sister as soon as I get my pictures. I was glad to hear from her and to get the chance to answer it.

I love all my sisters and brother. I would like to see them all. How is little Dewey getting along in his new home. We have about 425 little chickens. Well it is bedtime and I will close for this time.

I will send you the name of the subscribers to the Home Finder. Yuur friend, E. S. Mr. O.

S. Morrow. Dear sir: Just a few lines to let you know that Willie is well and doing fine. I may tell you he had the whooping cough quite bad but got over it all right. School has been out about five weeks, so he is at home all the time.

We have moved to our new home in and Willie says he enjoys living in town. We take him to Sunday School and church every Sunday. When it is very nice weather, he generally wants to ride horse-back, so we give him the family pony and he feels quite happy and delighted to get to ride horseback. He is quite smart in remembering his bible lessons. As this is all I will close for this time.

Respectfully yours, A. B. Krr. O. S.

Morrow. Dear Sir: The little girl that we have in our home by the name of Madeline, you wanted to be notified as to her welfare I will say that we are having good luck with our baby. She is well and very bright and sweet. We have not had her picture taken but will soon and will send you one to put on file. Baby was so small we wanted her to grow so she would look better in her picture.

We are well pleased with our little girl, and love her like our own child. Yours Truly, Alfred and Rev. O. S. Morrow.

Dear Sir: I have been thinking for sometime of writing to you. We like our new home. It is so pleasant to live bered that the consecutive daily life is what is making history, good or bad, in the child as well as in the adult. Now, are you going to make the life of the homeless child tell for good or evil? Children of your own have needed your guidance and earnest Christian care. Be more patient, more prayerfuLand then you will be able to: Judge the poor and fatherless; I Do justice to the afflicted and destitute; Rescue the poor and them out of the hands of the wicked.

iff HER OLD RAG DOLL. BY E. H. FOSS. Her name was Polly Susan Julie Ann Maria Jane, And she wore a wig of cornsilk, And she wore her dress en-train.

Her cheeks they were not waxen, Neither had she slippered feet; In fact she had no limbs at all, Yet she was just complete To the little girl that owned her, Who for short would call her Poll, And she loved the queer absurdity, Her Old Rag Doll. Its neck it was a corn cob, Broken ofi to be just so, And its head was made of muslin Stuffed with bits of rag, you know, Sos to bring it out in contour; But rough use had spoiled its shape, And give it the visage of an antiquated ape, And a good deal of rough handling Had caused its head to loll, Yet she loved the dear monstrosity, -Her Old Rag Doll. Since then shes had some fine ones, Brought directly from Paree, With, costumes of the finest cloth, As lovely as could be; And she called them high-toned cogno mens, Because she thought the name Polly Susan Julie Ann and so-forth altogether tame, Still shes never had the comfort That see used to take with Poll, When she never had another, save Her Old Rag Doll. Wilkinsburg, Pa..