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Show WORLD'S BIGGEST BABY FARM Wonderful Foundling Asylum In Moscow Mos-cow Started Originally by Empress Catherine II. The biggest baby farm In the world, known locally as tho "homo of the playing card babies," Is situated In Moscow This wonderful foundling asylum was started originally by ths Empress Catherine II , and Is maintained, main-tained, oddly, by a tax on playing cards. In all soma 14,000 babies pass through the Institution every year. The asylum, which Is under the patronage pat-ronage of tho royalty, consists of an institution standing In a hollow squaro round a gurden, with lovely trees and lawns, whero tho children play. A great fcaturo of this asylum la that all the servants thoro wear tho rod livery liv-ery of tho royal family, and Its accounts ac-counts aro audited and kept by tho Russlnn treasury department. Children Chil-dren of all sizes from wco babies are tended hore, and they havo tho best attention and good, wholesome food About nfty babies are received here every daj and after a sojourn of a month nurses take them to their own homes |