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Some of the members of these gangs never knew a home, were found perhaps as babies wrapped in newspapers, survivors of the seventy-two dead infants Riis says were picked up on the streets in New York in 1889, or of baby farming.
If I were to promise not to talk about anything but flannel bands " "Will you promise?" "No. But I'm going to meet you at the clock at the Grand Central Station fifteen minutes before train time. I don't care if every infants' wear manufacturer in New York had a prior claim on your time. You may as well be there, because if you're not I'll get on the train and stay on as far as Albany.
Julian had only a million dollars, but many individuals or families had, we are told, wealth amounting to fifty, a hundred, and even two or three hundred millions. We read of infants who in the cradle were heirs of hundreds of millions.
Those who attended the deceased were most careful not to handle food, and for days were fed by others as if they were helpless infants. Baldness and the loss of teeth were supposed to be the punishment inflicted by the household god if they violated the rule. Fasting was common at such times, and they who did so ate nothing during the day, but had a meal in the evening.
How many there were I cannot tell, and having taken no account of those I heard of, I cannot speak with precision; I believe, however, that I learnt through nuns, that at least eighteen or twenty infants were smothered, and secretly buried in the cellar, while I was a nun. One of the effects of the weariness of our bodies and minds, was our proneness to talk in our sleep.
"There isn't any more to tell," says Dicky, who is quite content with his success so far. "You haven't yet told us where you were all day," says Portia, lowering her fan to look at him. "In the village for the most part I dote on the village interviewing the school and the children. Mr. Redmond got hold of me, and took me in to see the infants.
I cannot undertake to relate at present one tithe of the precautions taken in the care of infants.
It is to him that I owe" here the doctor assumed a modest air "that I owe it that I have at last been able to found the Bethlehem Society for the suckling of infants, which a morning paper, that I was looking over just now the Messenger, I think calls 'the great philanthropic idea of the century." The duke threw a listless glance over the sheet which Jenkins held out to him.
Gerard threw her fur stole over one shoulder and linked her slender arm in her brother's. "You see, I'm not much of a mother," she said; "if I was I'd stay here all day and every day, week in and year out, and try to make these poor infants happy. I have no business to leave them for one second!" "Wouldn't they get too much of you?" suggested Selwyn. "Thanks.
What then was to be done? For the children, especially the younger infants, I felt deeply concerned, that they might not suffer, through want of warmth. But how were we to obtain warmth? The introduction of a new boiler would, in all probability, take many weeks.
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