hing he could do--he
could turn to his huge photographic album, and show her the faces of all
the children who had been received within certain dates. This was done,
and in the course of turning over the pages the lady's eye fell on the
face of the little girl waif received from a Lancashire workhouse, and
with much agitation declared that she was her child. The girl was still
at Ilford. In an hour's time she was fetched up, and found to be a
well-grown, nice-mannered child of eleven years of age--to be folded
immediately in her mother's arms. "There could be no doubt," the Doctor
added, "of the parentage; they were so much alike." Of course, inquiries
had to be made as to the position of the lady, and assurances given that
she was really able to maintain the child, and that it would be well
cared for. These being satisfactory, Dorothy changed hands, and is now
being brought up under her mother's eye.

[Illustration: FRANKIE'S BOX, EXTERIOR.]

[Illustration: FRANKIE'S BOX, INTERIOR. _From a Photograph._]

The boys and girls admitted to the fifty Homes under Dr. Barnardo's care
are of all nationalities--black and white, even Hindus and Chinese. A
little while ago there were fourteen languages spoken in the Homes.

"And what about naming the 'unknown'?" I asked. "What about folk who
want to adopt a child and are willing to take one of yours?"

"In the naming of unknown children," the Doctor replied, "we have no
certain method, but allow ourselves to be guided by the facts of the
case. A very small boy, two years ago, was discovered destitute upon a
door-step in Oxford. He was taken to the workhouse, and, after more or
less investigation to discover the people who abandoned him, he came
into my hands. He had no name, but he was forthwith christened, and
given the name of a very celebrated building standing close to where he
was found.

"_Marie Perdu_ suggests at once the history which attaches to her.
_Rachel Trouve_ is equally suggestive. That we have not more names of
this sort is due to the fact that we insist upon the most minute,
elaborate and careful investigation of every case; and it is, I think,
to the credit of our institutions that not more than four or five small
infants have been admitted from the first without our having been able
to trace each child home to its parentage, and to fill our records with
incidents of its early history.

"Regarding the question of adoption. I am very slow to give a child o