ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 299, 11 September 1908, Page 5

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Wealthy London people living at Blackheath have, adopted a bright little orphan girl-of Hull.)n,circumstances, says "Lloyd's Weekly New?;" that read more like an oldfashioned' romance than 1 -a real life - story of to-day. . Brought up in'poverty, the child in qucstibri is now ' surrounded fcy every liixuryj aiiu will most likfely inherit the for-tune.-of its benefactors." Some time ago Dr. Hartley, who is associated with the orphan homes at Newland, Hull, received a request for a little girl, , about three years old,! for adoption. The inquirers wero wealthy married people, who were; childless, and they- were desirous' of making tho adopted little. one' their very and to, give' it' the parental'love and ease it/would receive had it been born to then).'' There'did not happen "to bo a suitable child in tho Home at the time, but Dr. Hartloy made inquiries,'. and came across tho fortunate little one in a poor street off the Hedon Road. The fathor had been accidentally. killed, leaving a motherless family of ten children, the youngest' being a pretty little girl of three. . • ■ Dr. Hartley came to the conclusion that this child was just the one required by the good folks who' had written to thim. So he had tho child taken away from her. sordid surroundings, washed, and nicely dressed. •* Then he had her photograph taken, and this he sent to London. Quickly ho received a reply to the effect that the little girl seemed in every way the one that was wanted, and the next incident was the arrival from London of the childless couple, who wero anxious . to become its foster-parents. When they saw the little girl they wero delighted with her, and without further .ado she was taken in Dr. Hartley's brougham to one of the leading outfitting establishments in the city, and there dressed up like a little princess. Later in the day they carried her off to London. Just recently the lucky mite has been visited in London, and was found very happy with her nurse. Everything she can possibly desire is now hers, and with the bitter days of poverty forgotten she looks and acts as if she had been born to the luxDry and wealth now surrounding her.