| Show Fil house of 90 perhaps the institution in which Pa blanos take particular pride is the house of maternity existing not as so many of the public institutions in nn an old edifice diverted from church or convent uses use q since the reform laws were issued but in a handsome structure specially erected for its purpose the history of its origin is somewhat somewhat striking don luis haro a wealthy bachelor of puebla was a ca laveron BS as the spanish hath bath ita it a profligate a rake ona night from his everyday debaucheries debau cheries he stumbled over some swine greedily feeding in a narrow byway and clutching at tile the ground in ill his scrambles to arise he be picked up tile tha mangled dangl ed arm and hand of a no new v born baby carrying his ghastly find away with him he be mused and mourned over the pitiful sight of those tender fingers and there seemed to fall across his bis mental vision a light that showed him all tile crime and baseness to which his immoralities contributed contribute ii he reformed and died in the odor of sanctity leaving for the founding of a house bouse ot of maternity the will was contested long by haras relations but the charity finali finally triumphed and the hospital has been opened about two years it is maintained by its endowment and its administration is conducted on a very economical yet far from niggardly basis there is room for forty patients and the qualifications are the approach of maternity and inability to defray the expenses of the occasion the patients are sheltered and quite restored to health and their infants are given one full suit of apparel on leaving puebla cor san ban francisco chronicle |
