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    LA SCEini KOSALIE. 231

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    _fcion for babies whose motliers went out to work . Objections were raisedto whichhowevershe did not pay attentionas it seemed

    , , , , to her unjust to reproach charity with tempting mothers to neglect their duties ; since they were required to come several times a day

    to nurse the little ones , and were only _allowed to leave them when obliged to do so by the imperative summons of necessary labor .

    La Sceur Rosalie asked the objectors why they reproached poor mothers with doing from necessity what rich mothers constantly do

    from choice . The rich mother in France often sends her nursling away to a foster-parent ; the poor mother of the Faubourg Saint

    Marceau keeps hers at home , and -watches by it in the nights which succeed laborious days ; she does not part with it except during

    forced absences , and then she hands it over to an enlightened and ¦ womanly care . As to the danger of bringing together a number of

    children , and thus exposing them to catch infant maladies from each other , La Sceur Rosalie found by experience that her little guests

    had better health than those babies which remained at home , even taking this undeniable danger into account ; she had them washed ,

    and dressed in clean linen , and put into comfortable cradles ; she made a pleasure and a pride of her nursery , and showed it to friends

    and strangers with delight in her leisure moments . When she entered , the little folks all began to stir ; those who were old enough

    to walk , trotted up to be kissed , or rolled and crawled up to her feet and pulled her gown as babies will ; she bent over the cradles

    of the younger infants , talking , laughing , coaxing , _caressing , comforting all their little troubles , and cheering all their little hearts .

    One day she saw in her creche a foundling just beginning to talk , whom the attendants were about to take to the Foundling Hospital .

    She kissed him as she kissed all the others ; the wee fellow threw ' his arms round her neck , crying " Mamma , mamma , " and would not

    let go his hold . " He calls me Mammaand I cannot forsake him , " said La

    , Soeur Rosalie , and he was not sent to the Foundling Hospital , and so long as she lived he never wanted a mother ' s care .

    To the _crkche , this indefatigable woman presently added an asyle ; very much what we call an infant school . In a short time the

    . . municipality employed Sisters to manage it , and all the children of the quarter were taken from under the wheels and from out of the

    gutter , and kept good with little songs and exercises and games , instead of wandering in the streets at the risk of their lives and

    their morals . We would fain say a few words about crhches in general , since

    they have been much discussed in England , and attempts have been made to establish them , which , so far as we know , have failed .

    Undoubtedly a young child ought to be with its mother , and the delicate brain of a baby is best suffered to develope in the quiet of

    family life . The whole question is , whether , having certain

    inevitable evils to contend with , such , as the labor of married women

    La Sceini Kosalie. 231

    LA SCEini KOSALIE . 231

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/15/