Show A humorists philanthropy the society tor for the prevention ot of cruelty to children hits baa been holding 1 a I fair in boston auti anil among its a attractions attract iona wits a largo journal journal culled called the ilia child hoods app appeal al the following loiter letter from charles dudley warner appeared in the first rin number niber editor of appeal Spinal 1 am sorry that I 1 have gothing BOl liing worth while ilia to to your jour columns lor for bour cause hits has my lay entire sympathy my afy expert once in in tile tho matter is a nothing I 1 have never hil auy any disposition to ablino chil children childred drea that Is 18 little children anti and I 1 have never had much opportunity or timo time forit lor it although children clil Hron seem to me to lo be 10 very plenty wherever I 1 RO go I 1 never mean to neglect them antl and I 1 think I 1 may guy any that some of my best friends aro are children whitt what nian man IA there n now 0 W who Is not cot movel moral by it A little girl giri a nj by a big one still more I 1 have hoard heard that ia the older girls girla are but I 1 hardly believe it or there would have been I 1 ft society formed to prevent such euch neglect you may inter infer from this that I 1 am far from regarding as man philosophers ers do tho the presence of OTAl children dreU in the world as an evil it is is true that thai there is ia a choice ia them and ana a great many of them under the most moat favorable circumstances circum circumstances cum stances grow up to do tho the world so no credit hat but low law ol of them aro are hero by their own choice as I 1 understand tho the doctrine of they came hero here if not unwillingly lit at least without forethought and not to be held responsible for the situation they are ara found in some of 0 them it is ia fondly believed como come straight out of paradiso paradise the appearance appo araBoo of others can only be ba so ao counted for on the supposition that a door was acel dently left open from the other place yet thoy they are all alike I 1 innocent a of th the a la to add to either tho the cheer or misery of this thin world wanderers and aad homeless home toss many of thom them will fco bo at the iho best it is a mystery why they aro are set drift here with lose lass ability to take care of themselves thau than au aut any T other animal that Is id burn bora or hatched hal but bat helpless help leaa they all are anti and handi capped of 0 them are from the start by adv orfio conditions it seems wholly therefore ore on the theory that man should 1 add hie hi inhumanity to the under which the little folk begin to feel around in this world for something to tal cang to and to grow by we ari and neg looted an enough afterpe aft after erwe wo grow up to satisfy mans n ua most depraved tasta ato for roven revenge gme heaven give the little ones iu in tho the to tender ader season when they aro are opening their petals and wo we canna 3 ot ol tell whether they thay will be violets or pig pigweed wool iu in the coaxing sunshine ami tile friendly dow daw it may not do the child nay any good but bat nay may be to bo be it brier without fr fruit R it but this care taking is ia very humanizing id ia tho gardener gurd you bee liy by those fow few linea lilies that I 1 am not able to copo cope with this topic it I 1 to prove tho the existence of human depravity as a natural tiling thing in in the world I 1 need only point to the abuse of ihil chil dron by those thosa upon whom they have havo natural claims nod their painful neglect by P A well todo to do society but bat I 1 merely want to siy any that your has taken hold bold of ono one of our oar social problems at the right end we havo have gone upon tho the theory that wo we could mend mead matters by waiting till neglected children ret got old enough to go to a reform school that was au an improvement on waiting till they were old enough to be hanged hingul before bu bat I 1 your plan ia the most moat us ui well us in moat mit human I 1 suppose sui that in time we shall all bu be so BO by the sweet of charity that wo shall be no moio liable to neglect a child than a morgan colt |