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* Qmumfl. DECEMBER 16, 1948 he ran next door to the home of Mrs. Jack English who returned with her and assisted in rescuing Mrs. Thomas‘s three children who were trapped in the upper rooms of the house. Ernie five, Beverly three, and Donna one were carried to safety through the back door by the two women, who then returned to try and save some of the family‘s personal belongings. Jack English, a paraplegic, teleâ€" phoned Weston Fire Department, and then wheeled himself to the Thomas house and helped take the youngsters into his home, Mrs. Thomas was at work in the cellar when she esmelled smoke, but when she went upstairs to investigate she could see no signs of flames. Thinking it was the furnace that was smoking she started to open the windows and it was then she noticed fire eating at the couch in the front room. Fire of undetermined origin which started in the chesterfield, gutted two rooms in the home of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Thomas, Cheswick avenne last week, causâ€" ing an estimatJ::le $1,800,00 damage. Five Rescued From Blazing Weston Homes Constable Wilfred McCarthy rescued Mrs. Bert Wood and her dqn&!!fi;l‘. Joan, from their secondâ€"storey avartment above a warehouse on y Crescent last Monday morning, when fire and smoke blocked the stairâ€" way leading to the street. Mrs., Ernest Thomas (mt) of Cheswick Avenue is shown with her three children after a which gutted two rooms of their wartime house last week. Mrs. Jack En(ll.o: (top) a neighbour, helped Mrs. Thomas save her three children, oneâ€"yearâ€"old Donna, Beveriey three, and Emnest five from the fire. /w\égsl (AstS‘ / E Constable Saves Two From Apartmentâ€" Three Children Rescued 61 MAIN ST. N. For JuAN WOOD CHILDREN 69¢ to $2.49 | 7 = * e ())\Â¥â€"z] dfi c 9 CC f SUIPPEKS REWARD SHOE STORES ‘Friendly Service In A Friendly Store" â€" Remember You Will Save With Safety At PRICED FROM wWOMEN 79¢ to $3.49 PC McCARTHY MRS. BERT WOOD PC McCarthy said he was on patrol when he received a call from Bert Wood owner of the wareâ€" house, telling him of the fire. The constable tried to make his way upstairs but dense smoke drove him back. Obtaining a ladder from nearâ€"by, he put it up to the secondâ€" storey window and carried the two women to safety. Weston‘s Volunâ€" teer Fire Department had a threeâ€" hour fight on their hans before they were able to bring the blaze under control. Damage was estimated at $2,000. § In Peru on the west coast of Sbuth America there is not a drop of rainfall for six months at a stretch, January through June. Artificial irrigation keeps flowers in blossom year around. PC Wilfred McCarthy of the Weston Police Force rescued Mrs. Bert Wood and her 16â€"yearâ€"old daughter Joan from their secondâ€" storey apartment, when fire swept through a warehouse on Wilby Crescent early Monday morning. The Woods live immediately above the warehouse and the fire had cut off the stairway leading to the street. Two men passing by entered the home and tried to push the burning couch out through the front door, but it became wedged in the doorâ€" way, and the draft from the open door blew flames to the walls. When the Brigade under Chief McGinnis arrived on theâ€"scene, the fire already had made headway. Neighbours came ta the aid of the Thomas family, replacing clothing lost in the fire.‘ 99¢ to $4.95 ‘ Nevertheless I have heard people question extreme caution exerâ€" cised by ocieties in adoption. They point out that the conditions inâ€" sisted upon, both with regard to the child and the adopting parents, are too ideal anddo not conform to the average in normal family life. ‘That is quite true, but the circumstances are entirely differâ€" ent. In the case of adoption the society, knowingly, stands in the place of destiny,. It is a treâ€" mendous responsibility and the Because the society will also be anxiqus to know something of the background of the family in which ‘the child is being placed. This is & responsibility it has to the child. ‘Be assured that any society that looks carefully into the suitability of a prospective home for adoption will quite probably be just as parâ€" ticular in regard, to the suit:?)ility of the child to be placed in that home. In this way, couples desiring & child may secure one for adoption with the utmost confidence. The twoâ€"year period of adoption proâ€" bation is a further protection to both adoptive parents and child, It is the "easing in" safeguard. Because no society will offer a child for adoption unless it has wfhrdg a complete investigation as to his or her background and suitâ€" ability for placement. â€" \ But. if th!sg demands were as easily met they think they should be theie would have to be far more little ‘pnes wfi;out their own mothers fathafs to love and care for‘ them. See what I mean? ‘The fact is, of course, that the children are in the minority group of all children who co into care of Children‘s Aid Societies.. Why? Let‘s list some of. the reasons: 6 Because many children are only in temporary care of the society during a period requiring some family adjustment. _ Because many children who come into permanent care of the society are, unhappily, beyond the popuâ€" lar age for adoption. (You might thing about this. Manyâ€"a fine little girl or boy from, say, three to six years of age or older never has the chance of an adoption for this reason alone.) There is the ironic side to: the impatience and~quite understandâ€" able and forgiveable unreasonableâ€" ness of wouldâ€"be adoptive parents. ‘Thank goodness they are impatient and unreasonable, the dear good péople! 5 ’n.n the C‘s had got their baby, apparently, overnight; These hâ€" foore loet Hight of ins Ti tat ‘th_o C‘s had waited a long time in theflixl'lt lace. luledt:‘uethe coune at t street Ecomor, ixm the Jexfhh mothersâ€" pouncing .onâ€"Mrs:.C. when she wheeled Bobby out in the afterâ€" noon. I am pleased to report that all three sets of importunate parâ€" entlmnowtobonemyoumbn- lating their respective " adoptive babies on the street and<we have peace (of a kind) once again. one too, Also %.l’l and a month later the W‘s, adoption ‘staff of qur Children‘s Aid Society nearâ€" ly lost their reason Uuring the riext two and a half yearsâ€"because the D‘s, the: M‘s, and the. W‘s couldn‘t éee why they had,to wait so long There was a regular epidemic of adoptions on my street three or four Â¥:T.d n"o“ "l.‘:o ;;ouple who # h+ ts .. Tor neatly tno Wkiniant shey han kept their eolh%hl this time. The arrival of the baby boy at the C‘s‘eaused a furor throughout the in Phng l ons arid 10 children having come, imâ€" mediately decided they would &dopt Your Children‘s Aid Society VEF T anome t srnar P ut imenal n one t Eit ns 0 c toin OR . j Article 5 And if you are interested, buy Frances Lockridge‘s book "Adoptâ€" ing a Child" or ask your. lending library if it is on the shelves. A very comprehensive summary may be secured for 25 cents from the Canadian Welfare Council, 246 Cooper street, Ottawa. This is an American publication and refers to laws and procedures andstandards sought in the United States, but you will find ths the best child welfare agencies eterywhere agree on th§ basic procedures necessary when men and women step in in the place of Mother Nature. "What are all these quotation marks on your examination paper, Jones ?" Don‘t shortâ€"cub or advise any friend to shortâ€"cut the protective machineryâ€"set up for adoption in this province. It does not pay. It has been built up and strengthened and improved by earnest, experiâ€" enced‘md competent: people. . _"Courtesy to the boy on my right, sit," Sometimes & couple who have seâ€" cured a child outside of the approvâ€" ed and safe processes and who have never applied for legal adoption papers have died intestate and a relative has been able to claim the estate which they fully intended would go to their adoptive son or daughter. Sometimes such "adopting" parâ€" ents who secure children "privateâ€" ly" find to late that.the natural parent or parents‘ consents have not been secured in the first place _ I presume you know that in Onâ€" \urlo, as in most of the provinces, an adoption cannot be completed, by ljud.icill process without a recomâ€" Lmendnion from the Provincial ‘Welfnre_ ‘Authorities. This is the safeguard to the child and the adopting psrents and it‘is an illâ€" advised couple who, because they become impatient of the timeâ€"conâ€" suming procésses I have: touched on, short circuit their society. The great majorit loctors and lawyers coâ€"0 te with the society because they understand, one from the medical and the other from the legal aspects, what dangers lie in the paths of those who are able to get a baby quietly with no red tape and no questions asked. Inone case Miss Lockridge cites a baby girl "adopted" in this way who was later discovered to have a congenital heart condition with no chance of living more than & couple of years. _. |_ ! 6 "After two years of parenthood this couple dropped into a chasm of despair far deeper than the loneliness before she came," comâ€" ments this writer. and the child they thought was now their own sfill legally belongâ€" ed to the real parents, I guess we can take a paragraph off for a laugh,/ so let me. tell you of an instance cited by Frances Dockridge ‘in‘ her. splendid book "Adopting. a Child." A prospective adoptive â€"mother â€" was <discussing with an‘ ageney the adoption bl'nl ce mp es o in Qovige parents‘ en born in Europe. "But," .‘3?: the ‘adoptive mother doubtfully, "won‘t she grow up to speak with an accent?" ‘ who some fine mio little adopted son \id.dmmulubomhd!w. Our first responsibility is to the child because we are Children‘s Aid Societies, but we must protect the mdopting parents too, 'fu‘uu.. safeguard that is hcm valued and i# steadily any shade of embarrassment or apology in the attitude of gouples (To Be Continued) TIMES AND GUIDE, WESTON { t a CC wÂ¥ fâ€" . : # P j s t " C un 00 o s 3 R 5}..\, 4 \ "" . 5 e ho $ ds °e # :“"%f. if ,‘;: * ie 9 j â€" Te @, m § BEAUTIFUL FRAMED PICTURES From $2.25 pair EXTRA SPECIALS IN LAMPS OCCASIONAL CHAIRS . From $19.95 BOUDOIR LAMPS From $4.95 pair CARD TABLES $3.95 up TRIâ€"LIGHTS From $14.95 D. "#h SMOKER‘S STANDS New low priceâ€"$8.95 TO SUIT YOUR BUDGET 4120 642 t hP