Like the wise people we are, we shall, instead of preparing too well for death, try and do what we can for the living, Lots of little boys and girls, who insist upon thriving despite the hardness of the world into which they have been thrust, find themselves without either parents, or any means of subsistence, but cold as is the World, there are kindly folk who give attention to the succouring of {ittle orphan waifs, and among these philanthropists are the Shanghai women who help to support the Cradle in Route' Winling, and the orphans at St. Tichon's.
Tneidentally, if it is one's wish to increase one's family without going through the usual preliminaries, one tean do this by adopting a child: from the Cradle, I'am told. This matter fof adoption has more than one thing to recommend it: one can choose the Sex of one's "offspring" and likewise See what it looks like before taking delivery. Most of us have to take what comes, and have the pain of hoting our snub noses and freckles Tepeated upon a suffering descendent, (Who was it said something about," The tenth transmitter of a foolish face?"), Not so the parent of the adopted. Those interested might like {fo take a walk to the Cradle sometime and see the attractive children who really have "no mamma, no apa, no whiskey soda."
Pastel-tinted wool frocks are bolted Jand finished with big pockets so that they look like suits. Contrasting capes, lined to match, accompany them—pale turquoise " blue with tobacco brown; drage pink with granite blue; bottle green with ivory.
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