My Russian and Turkish journals . ral of the Annunciation, where the Em-perors are married and baptized. When John theTerrible married a fourth wife he underwent a sortof excommunication, and the place is shown where helistened to Mass outside the sacred precincts. Thereis also a little seat in the wall where he used to sitin this church. There are holy pictures here too,but to us, who have no personal religious feeling aboutthem, one looks very like another. Often one canscarcely see the painting at all, as the head-dressand garments are laid on in gold, and ornamented withjewels. We returned
My Russian and Turkish journals . ral of the Annunciation, where the Em-perors are married and baptized. When John theTerrible married a fourth wife he underwent a sortof excommunication, and the place is shown where helistened to Mass outside the sacred precincts. Thereis also a little seat in the wall where he used to sitin this church. There are holy pictures here too,but to us, who have no personal religious feeling aboutthem, one looks very like another. Often one canscarcely see the painting at all, as the head-dressand garments are laid on in gold, and ornamented withjewels. We returned home to lunch, and, after havingrested a little, four of us went to see the FoundlingHospital. The irreverent Archie afterwards remarked thathe would as soon have seen a collection of youngmice ; but it is really very interesting, though (Ithink) a most immoral institution, as any suchestablishment must be where babies are taken inwholesale, without any sort of investigation, andwhere even married people can get rid of their en-. 94l THE SACRED a photograph by Major Albemarle P. Blackwood. i88o] THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL 95 cumbrances without straining their consciences toofar. We saw the whole thing from beginning to we saw an infant arrive ; a poor woman broughtit, handed it over, was asked no questions, exceptwhether she wished it to be given any particular name. Yes, Pauline. It was taken out of her arms, andout of the very scanty clothing which covered it,was put into a Foundling cloth, popped into thescales, had a number tied round its neck, * 749, asimilar number was given to the woman, who thendeparted. The baby was taken straight into thenext room, where we followed it, and in two minutesafter its entrance and desertion it was in a bath,being washed and talked to by a woman who forforty years has done nothing but wash babies ontheir first arrival. We also saw, in this department,peasant wet-nurses arriving to take infants into thecountry, for they are
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