MEDICAL MISSIONARY RELIEF DEPARTMENT.
This department has been organized in the interest of young orphans and homeless children, an important part of its work being to find suitable homes for them. Persons who apply for children will be expected to accompany their application with satisfactory letters of introduction or recommendations. Address all communications to Relief Department, Haskell Home, Battle Creek, Mich. No. 728 is a boy eleven years old, of Irish descent, with blue eyes and black hair. He has been deserted by his parents, and the woman who has cared for him for several years is not able to provide for him longer. He is now living in Indiana. Nos. 744 and 745 are two brothers, aged ten and eight years respectively, whose mother is unable to provide for them. They have not been allowed to run the streets, and are children of good habits. The older one has brown eyes and light hair, and the younger, blue eyes and light brown hair. Is there not some good country home in Michigan that will open its doors to these little boys, and thus relieve the mother’s anxiety? Nos. 758, 759, and 760. Here is a group of three children living in Iowa who are greatly in need of a home. They have been deserted by both parents, and the grandparents, who have been caring for them, are not able to keep them any longer, as they are old and feeble. The oldest, a girl thirteen years of age, is in good health. The next is a girl nine years of age, and the youngest is a boy of seven years. These children have been somewhat neglected, but with kind and Christian influences may be brought up to become useful. Unless a home can be found for them right away, the grandfather will feel compelled to send them to the county house.