Eureka Reporter | 1905-12-01 | Page 6 | The "Little Father's" Work

THE LITTLE FATHERS WORK youngsters tender solicitude for H s baby brother you see and hear a lot about child mothers in the tenement house dis tracts said a gas collector yesterday but nobody seems to notice the child fathers there may not be so many of them but there are some and they should get due credit I 1 saw one coming down town in a sixth avenue L car the other day there was a woman a foreigner I 1 suppose tor she wore no hat one of those pale half fed looking women who had with her a fat babe in arms and this boy this child father he was a black eyed little chap of nine or ten years and the interest h took in everything around him was in strong contract to the 1 teless look and man ner of the woman every once in a while he would look to see how the baby was getting along it was sleeping and he seemed satisfied the woman appeared anxious about her station and with a few words the boy calmed her then before the train got to bleecker street it stopped and she apparently thinking it was at the station started to leave her seat the boy laid his hand on her arm and she sank back then when they came to the station he spoke to her and they left the car he seeing that she got out without being jostled on the plat form he put up his hands took the baby and started away the pale worn an following if you ever saw any achl d mother more solicitous for a baby and a worn an than that boy was I 1 d like to know it new york press