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Show THE STORY OF A BABY. How Miss Bath Jones Found and Lost a Little Waif. From the date that babies were first discovered dis-covered up to the present time they have been a source of annoyance and discomfort. Temporarily of course for babies either die or grow Up jnto men and women. Here is'a story of a baby that proves the above assertion. On January 11 Miss Ruth Jones of Sugar House ward, a very pretty young lady by the way, awoke from her pleasant slumbers to tiud in a basket on the front door step a neat little kid, apparently on earth but a short time. There being no one in sight who could have, possibly dropped a baby and a basket Miss Jones concluded that the placing of the wee bit of humanity there was premeditated. She was right. Miss Jones was sorry for the baby as any good woman would be. She took the little stranger in and after purchasing a nursing bottle and securing the services of a cow began be-gan the task of rearing the kid by hand. She was progres.-lng finely and the baby was getting interesting when a shadow fell athwlirt the threshold of her's and the infant's in-fant's happiness. The shadow was cast by Mrs. Pratt, the resident physician of the Deseret hospital. The lady M. 1). followed closely upon her shadow. According to Miss Jones' statement Mrs. Pratt informed her that she knew baby's mamma, also baby's papa. The latter was an engineer who had deserted his wife prior to her confinement. Miss Jones says Mrs. Pratt told her the mother had never seen the child else she would not hare parted with it. And then Miss Jones sat up at nights and crooned the kid to sleep and crocheted little shirts, and made laee for skirts, and did all those things that mothers usually do. She and baby were getting to be fast friends, when, one day, Mrs. Dr. Pratt's shadow loomed up again. She, according to Miss Jones, asserted that the mother of the little darling wanted to see it. Thinking that everything was all right, and picturing to herself how she would feel were she the child's mother and similarly situated, Miss Jones save the keeping of the little one to Mrs. Pratt. By so doing she says she made a fatal mistake mis-take for instead of the babe being ic-Uored to its fond mother Mrs. Pratt turned the child over to a family named Peck, whe live at Sixth North and Fifth West. They at once began proceedings before Judge Barteh to adopt the child as their own. Miss Jones contested and the result as announced in yesterday's Times was in favor of the Pecks. An effort was made by the parties who won the suit to show that the child was not protierly cared for while in the custody of Miss Jones. This was promptly squelched by Judge Bartch much to Miss Jones' satisfaction, satis-faction, and was in all probability eminently correct. When the child was turned over to Mrs. Pratt, Miss Jnes asserts that it was neatly and comfortably attired. Whereas when in possession of the Peck?' eho says its clothing was not of the best. The prime reason for giving the child to the Pecks is a cow. Peek's have a cow and from bossy the kid derives nourishment. Evidence was adduced showing that to switch cows would be injurious to the kid's digestion. In deciding the matter Judge Bartch said that he would omit all legal points, and as he had no jurisdiction over the cow would award the custody of the child to the Pecks. Miss Jones wiil doubtless appeal. . . |