Baby Found in a Waste-Basket
It would seem that a mother is "without natural affection" who would, amid a number of parcels, forget her child. She had numbered the little one among the bundles, found one missing, and by sufficient thought found it to be an eight-months baby. All the officials and helpers in a large department store were questioned in vain. She looked about the store but could not find it. She finally gave her address to a policeman, and coolly said: "You have my address. If you find the baby, let me know and send it to me." And then she went home. It was by accident that the youngster was found. Cleaning out the waste-baskets which had been taken into the cellar, a clerk came across the infant in one of these depositories, sleeping peacefully. But for this discovery the child might have been carted away and dumped into the river. The incident, which occurred in St. Louis, bears its own lessons.