Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Havana’s Orphans. [ARTICLE]

Havana’s Orphans.

A whole series of romances could be written round the strange little opening In the wall below the ironbarred window through which infants enter Havana’s great orphan asylum at La Beneficencia, says a writer in Wide World Magazine. Parents, guardians, and others desirous of getting rid of infants place them within the boxlike compartment, which is really a stile. They then give the stile a turn, which has the effect of ringing a bell in the building, announcing to the sister on duty the advent of another little foundling. The identity of the person who brings the child is never known, and every Infant deserted in this way is nourished and cared for by the kindly sisters. Some of Havana’s most prosperous citizens were brought up in this institution.