Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1928, Page 26

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THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 15. 1928—PART 1. T TR SPRT ADSBABES Work in Behaif of Mountam Mothers and Children to Be Described. IT PAYS TO Select. Your Furniture Now Our Liberal Budget Plan Makes Buying Easy Buy on Our Budget Plan—No Interest “or Extras Added We Do Not Penalize Our Friends MER(”HNI)ISEADVERTI ED HERE ON SALE MONDAY AND TUESDAY How the spirit of the old “sky pilot” ' who rode horseback across tracts of wilderness to carry the message of the Gospel to isolated communities is being reincarnated in the work of a band of plonser woman nursss who are bring- ing medical attention lo remote homes in_the mountain regions of the South will be related to Washingtonians by Mrs. Mary Breckinridge of the Ken- tusky committee for mothers and babies. Mrs. Breckinridge will tell of this new | health program to cut the excessive infant and maternity death rate in mountain districts at a meeting Wed- nesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs George H Myers. 2330 S street. All those who are interested in the public health movement are invited to I bout the work that Mrs. Bi d onstrating witt he nurses in Leslie County, Ky Where Nurses Are Needed. Whereas the “sky pilot” who i important factor in the religious of trained One of the pioneer woman nurses working in the Kentucky mountains, ford- Ing a river as she goes about her daily tasi of ministering (o a people living under primitive conditions. A meeting in the interest of this movement. which is under the auspices of the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babics, will be held here Wednesday. BNESHENG T HOME OF YOUR O v of swollen fords and wind- ing mountain trails packs & well sections of thi . where there are no -phrsicians. and where the reg- That the opportunities for such serv- fce are vest and its need imperative is Detroit Jewel are lifetime Gas Ranges, Through With Oven Heat Control-on a Detroit Jewel Gas e g o Range it systematizes and simplifies cookir Fifteen Tegistration area of the United States | kitchen. Saves foad from underdoneness and over- In 1923 of 6.7 per 1.000 live births, it is | doneness and spoiling. ' of the Southern mountaineers, packs s Bit'e in his saddlebags. the re equipped medicine kit. Mrs. Breckin- - e e o has und to introduce this J istered nurse must be able to_ handle T O E EL not only the usual which com indicated by the fact that America is sull a frontiersmans country for 30.- and, and on isolated minutes at the most, and the greatest cooking help of eat plains and forests. the age’is any cook’s for a lifetime. Saves time in the esumated as much as twice t " : N Tural sreas among old Am"’;‘;“mf“;w‘;‘ Big l’.n:mwl-hnul_ Ovens. Rig Cooki Fops, Warming Closet and Service Compartinent who rides forth to meet th frontier nu ice in other remote under her care but i absence o doctors. must be a trai midwife as well i being sought for this movement their use you can bake better the bals [ vour li 000 people. These people live in the . With a death rate of mothers in the | Fibre Rockers A th: mountaincers of the South, who | &r> among the greatest sufferers. come from a stock that dates back to earliest | eolonial days. In striking contrast, the death rate for England and Wales was 3.8 and that of the Queen’s nurse-midwives in 54.554 - New Sellers coninements attended by their fam 153 l organization in the same year e | =t Klear Front Studied English Methods. To afford some degree of medical - K' h C b' s itchen Cabimets mfl:m«d nurse and has taken | N SaNGas, m"h“fie‘"mz:fld:fi See the New and Beautiful Klear Front, an ex- in the Hebrides in orter to get a com- | clusive Sellers creation. 42% more white porcelain ing Service of England which emplou r ~'stered trained nurse-midwives to! care of mothers and babies in the | s and islands of the British | Isles. Mrs. Breckinridge is herself Fibre Rockers, Baronial Three-piece Bed-Davenport Suite, overstufied, with Willow Chairs, of white plete knowledge of the special nursing technique ‘required and of the methods | of administering. this service. | Mrs. Breckenridge justifies tne | i%er nirsing service of her commi:- by the following statement: “Our “reason for existence is tha Ameriea "z still a frontiersmen’s co try for millions of citizens of the old stock. and because of that she has the death rate of mothers in child *he civilized world. Pifteen other nations have a lower rate than oun We lose approximately 20.600 every vear in childbirth. -more Itan fro~1 any other cause except to- “Wethave lost more women in child- birth in our history as a Nluon thian of good to the Nation? birth is the one basic fact underlyin2 the next generation, it must fir born, To be born successfully is a ite of any career. To survive the birth of her ehildren is the right of everv American woman. “What of the babies themselves; for | whom $o much danger and suffering is | 27 We Jose in America every | spproximately 100000 infants in | y of the old stock chance of Jfe than a is no more oceupetion than just being born an Amerjesn citizen.” NOBILE POLAR SHIP OFF FOR GERMANY Dirigitle Imvu inln at 2 0'Clock This Morning on First Leg of Exploration. Br the Assaciated Press MILAN. April 15 (Bunday)—The Talian dirizivle, Italia. Jeft Baggio air- drome 21 2 o'rlock this morning for Swlp, Germany, the first stage of i's Transpolar fiight A more ambitious program than that of the “Norge” 1 hich Nobile went o the North Pole in 1926 has been mapped out for the present trip, Nobile bas made drrangements 1o stay in the Poler regions through the remainder of Spring end well into the Bummer with & bese 2t King's Bav, Spitzbergen Nobile plaps seversl flights, one tn Qscertain whether there is more land on either gide of the route folloved by Pen A party of 200 made up of selentists officers, mechanic: and soldiers v il directed by WNobile. An osken er presented No by Pope Plus will earried 1o the Pole and dropped tiicra. from the dirigivle JUSTICE WILL SPEAK. Member of Bupreme Court to Talk st Lew Club Banguet Announecemen! ver made by the Bt ler Lew Club of the Georgetown Uni versity Law f that Justice Pierce Butier of the United n' Court would be th Snd priacipe) speaker at is {ourth wpe nusl benguet Thursday night st the Ceriton Hote! Rev, Charles W 0, of Georgelows 1y e 8 epeaker, as well us Dean George Hamilton snd Assistant Desn Hugh . Fegan of Law Behool and Prof Hlem Jen s Price of the law feculty Robert ¥ Pontzer, 28, of Pennsy 10 be tie tomstmaster and the e i chusge of Arrengements oonsists of Blanley J Kaps, 28, of Pennsylvenia, cheirmen Jobhn ] Buecher, ‘26, Virginia, end Merk Wil mer. 28, Wisconsin An up-to-dete hehy exih hes 8 loud opesier telephione ettachment, & that i the baby rries the mother can hesr Eim from snolber roon working surface. More working space. Built like fur- niture. Many famous time and iabor saving devices. 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