From: Pollinger <to...@im...> - 2010-03-21 17:45:53
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Hed nurse with the employment bureau of New York. Wanted! A nurse maid with an ample lap suitable for the accommodation of seventeen babies at once. She came this afternoon, and this is the fine figure of a woman that I drew! We couldn't keep a baby from sliding off her lap unless we fastened him firmly with safety pins. Please give Sadie Kate the magazine. I'll read it tonight and return it tomorrow. Was there ever a more docile and obedient pupil than S. McBRIDE? Thursday. My dear Judy: I've been spending the last three days busily getting under way all those latest innovations that we planned in New York. Your word is law. A public cooky jar has been established. Also, the eighty play boxes have been ordered. It is a wonderful idea, having a private box for each child, where he can store up his treasures. The ownership of a little personal property will help develop them into responsible citizens. I ought to have thought of it myself, but for some reason the idea didn't come. Poor Judy! You have inside knowledge of the longings of their little hearts that I shall never be able to achieve, not with all the sympathy I can muster. We are doing our best to run this institution with as few discommoding rules as possible, but in regard to those play boxes there is one point on which I shall have to be firm. The children may not keep in them mice or toads or angleworms. I can't tell you how pleased I am that Betsy's salary is to be raised, and that we are to keep her permanently. But the Hon. Cy Wykoff deprecates the step. He has been making inquiries, and he finds that her people are perfectly able to take care of her without any salary. "You don't furnish legal advice for nothing," say I to him. "Why should she furnis |