doctor's science will accomplish that.

One of our most pressing INTELLIGENT needs just now is to get
our records into coherent form. The books have been most
outrageously unkept. Mrs. Lippett had a big black account book
into which she jumbled any facts that happened to drift her way
as to the children's family, their conduct, and their health.
But for weeks at a time she didn't trouble to make an entry. If
any adopting family wants to know a child's parentage, half the
time we can't even tell where we got the child!

"Where did you come from, baby dear?"
"The blue sky opened, and I am here,"

is an exact description of their arrival.

We need a field worker to travel about the country and pick
up all the hereditary statistics she can about our chicks. It
will be an easy matter, as most of them have relatives. What do
you think of Janet Ware for the job? You remember what a shark
she was in economics; she simply battened on tables and charts
and surveys.

I have also to inform you that the John Grier Home is
undergoing a very searching physical examination, and it is the
shocking truth that out of the twenty-eight poor little rats so
far examined only five are up to specification. And the five
have not been here long.

Do you remember the ugly green reception room on the first