THE ORPHANAGE NEV/S LETTER.
GETTING ACQUA1NTLD.
awful travji.lv occurred. A few
months l iter he came to the mission.
From the first he has been a good
l-»'v -bout his work t home, and is
doing excellently in school. He is
about the average si/t* for a boy of his
aje His hair is black, ami his eyes
dark and pleas.tnt. Ife is a boy any
one would look at a second time.
it is said that the Lowell < hildren
who are with us, .re relatives of James
Russell Lowell. However that may
be they certainly are energetic
whether they have inherited that
*: .it from New Fngl.u: 1 ancestors or
! hey wen* bmn in Seward, five of
ihr n. ']•!■[ mother i native
woman. was ill ,vi h tuberculosis tor
« long tune. .• i» ! died shortly after
the hirth of t he las ■ ddld The baby
lived about seven months. The
father !s a prospector, and w.t unable.
>’f course, to go out to work and at the.
• ante time care tor the children, so
they wete hi ought to the mission,
t w * hivs an l two girls with the >gree
uient that trie father would pay for
their support. About two scats ago
tile youngest of the girls died of tub
• ClllwMS
Johnny the oldest boy is now i\.
Ove four ve us ago he had the mis
'-iMic to get a briused leg. which
•lev*- oped into an .ibiess, which has
ht:d to t* treated with peroxide of
hydrogen, irrigated with a solution
carbolic ur id and packed w ilh i<*do
iorm gauze every day to. foui year-'
Ill-, month he h.is had to have an ah
• * * open.nl on tilt- oilier side of the
suihc r.L' He has suffered a great
dui. with it. hut is about well avails
iud is* .. lively .. a cricket.
i.tke the maturity of the hoys he
k*t tu-Ni^ht black hair, and dark
brown eyes He is very faithful
his work, doing it well.
David l'orstnan came into the in:
sion when he was about 5 year* o.
11is three sisters came at the sat;
time. Their home was at Afogn
where their mother died.
There is one characteristic wh
this David has like that *>t the 1-i
David, he is “a man of war”. No l
iu the mission has such a pugnatu
disposition as our David. We h«
that Some day he may exercise .
some worthy cause.
He is rather a small boy for 1;
vests. He has brown hair and •
and t ready tongue wept in ;
c)a<ifcs. There a: e g;cat possibiii.
of his making a good and useful u
if he will wake up to his privile.:
1 le > 'll do good mat faithful w» : k
he has a mind t«>, no boy will g"
ther out of >1 is way to do a t o
when tlie notion takes him.
Phil Dobrowolski comes next. 1
came to the mission foget hei with 1
sister Alice at the same time wh
Hen:’- and Nancy Matbisou c
He was about four years old nud w
die «es and long curls. It v
question in the mind of the i
when they first saw him wheth
was a boy or a girl, lie h. * a
skin, ligkt hair and brown eves. .
a nice face. In general l hil ►
the disposition to do things, eve
tic his shoes. When he does v
he is quick in hi* movements
tongue sometimes gets iwisieti
his own confusion as well as tl
other people. *sot lung ago w.
sailing his Ik at he got liis fee*
wit almost lip to his km
(•ramlniu sent him to the oIm
th*' Supt , amt tin* is the r.i •
he leiivered: "Grand Min said
should show me your legs.”
( To be c.miinued)