Show A Year Ago Ag He Had No Mama Now He Has Lots of Them 7 p i j d dJ J r SA S- S A 4 cr 4 j 4 r fl kr k- k S1 i t tJ J RICHARD P. P HOUSE University of Tennessee Coeds Adopt Baby to Get Experience Now v Campus Pet KNOXVILLE LE T Tenn nn Nl NEA-A NEA A AA A A year ago Richard P. P House didn't have hav any mother at all but all but to today nr ho Ito has just lots Jots of oC cm em m A year ago 1 0 Richard was waR a puny pun infant lying listlessly on a cot In Knoxville's Homo Home for Friendless Babies lie He was just jUt one one o of lh the tho ei eighty ht waifs In fri th the Institution T There cre was as little that Richard could claim as Ills hits own except hl his name hl his tag and his record f lot for r hiving pulled pulle I through a a. mighty b ba bad ca caO castor cast O of or pneumonia Just Junt about that time girl students In the home economics department of ot tho the University of ot Teno Tennessee lIse here decided the they wanted to adopt A of or Jive lIn flesh and I h baby a a sort ulo blood textbook textbook- for or their lessons In lii Inchild Inchild child care cams and home m ln- ln With their the went baby chopping hoppin to the where h re Richard ha lay WE TOOK HIM BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WANTED HIM We Wc sa saw a a. lot of ot smiling S sr- sr checked checke youngsters says a g Miss 1185 Clarice Strickland one of or the thc students stu students dents but Richard was avas po SC o peaked kd and sick looking that we ve were afraid no on one else would take toke km him and he would die So we decided ed to la take e him ourselves So the they took look Richard to live li at atthe atthe atthe the un university's s practice hou house e wh where ro tho the girls take turn about liv- liv In there and doing practical house house- keeping Now ow at al 17 months Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard would hardly know himself Heis Ho lIe Hola lIeis is la a n robust with fat tat cheeks that are as 8 ro an HI apples I and a good natured d gnu grin that's amile a 3 mile v VItic J His cloth clothes nr are nrc made by the th co ro- ro cd cds eds who keep 1 him dressed Ire 8 d in th time the hel height ht of oC collegiate f tyle t If Ills His food foor is lr prepared l h by them anti and the thiea I hr a a girl irl to be his nursemaid Irl HELPS HELPS ENTERTAIN ENTERTAIN WHEN COEDS HAVE COMPANY When hien hell a ho boy friend calls at nl tho time practice house Richard drags out his dolls dolls' building buildIng- blocks anti and other othet toys toH and helps help entertain He lie goes ONI TJ Tiding ridIng with the teachers an and other admirers and is 15 a 3 regular young oun man nian about aboul the time Rumpus c-Rumpus I His Ills adventures In t teething the first time Um he lie crawled those nights with the time colic his daring first step that awful da day when he lie fell Cell and skinned his n rinse nose sc his Initial efforts to talk taik hii his diet hi his bath bath all all these these- lw liars have been hen lessons as He w well 11 as na motherly moth moth- erl erly joys jOS to tho tim college girls A A new room lw ba has been built buill to the practice house as 35 Richard outgrew out omit grew his hula first nursery Ir His man many mothers refuse t to think of or the time when he Jle ie will 1 no lon longer Pl occupy it it DOES HE BELIEVE IN FAIRIES ABSOLUTELY But the time will wm como comae when Richard wilt will be a bo boy instead of or a bab baby and wh when n that da day arrives es he will he be adopter adopted b by a worth worthy fam fani- tI ii ily University authorities are ale de determined tie de- that no one but those who will give gl the best possible care shall have ha him F. Everything Richard has his has his carnage carriage car car- na-ge na toys clothing medicine etc has been given l cn him ibn bv by the university sit sity it all aU except third one of of his name He lIe came caine to the university with only the name namo of ot Richard d nothing more being known n The P I House was Mas added meaning the house hous nl hl h believes in f f iries now and always will Even after hm h he grows up to be a man ho lie will al always always always al- al ways know that when the college girls visited the Home for l Friendless Friendless Friend lIend less DahleR that day a 3 good hood fait fairy aIry tool stood over o his tot cot and waved wa her and |