Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 9

By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D. Most of our ideas about bables are al- | most as infantile as their subject. If it wasn't for the fact that bables know more about themselves than we do, half of them would never grow up. Just because bables are tiny and pink and fragile looking—and, Indeed they break very ecasily if you drop them-we fmagine, that it is as natural for them to sicken and die as for flowers to fade, and remark, ‘The Lord gave and the | Lord hath taken away,” or other idiotic drivel of that description, over every tiny coffin, Forgetting that flowers fade only be- cause the purpose for which they bloomead been acocomplished, while bables come %0 the world 1oaded for fifty years, and if they fail to accomplish that destiny, it is usually our fault, either as individuals | or as a community. All they need is a fair fleld and no | handicaps, and they will finish the course #even times out of ten. Yet we will listen | with complacency to the self-confident | clatm of the mother of Israel, that she knows all abput babies, “‘mor'n” any doctor, 'cause she’'s had ten of them her- #elf and buried six. New Zealand, for instance, as has al- ready been mentioned, has brought down the death rate for its entire population of over thres-quarters of a milllon to one-third of the general average, and | Canada and some of our Pacific coast states do not fall very far behind. In fact, we have had practical demon- stration of the feasibility of this life- saving under our very eyes right in New | York City ftself. Some three years ago the children's bureau of the Association for Improving 'the Condition of the Poor decided to make a test of the actual in- fluence of flies upon the prevalence of children's diseases in summer. For this purpose, they selected two nefghborhoods of the same size and pop- | s & ulation, oceupiéd principally by a for-| ¥ egn-born’ population, ‘which were s | 4 nearly 4s possible identical In housing, | 4 nitary conditions and average income. | L One of thése was placed ia charge of a corps of nurses and physicians, and made | the subject of & thorough and persistent | anti-fly and anti-dirt campaign, teach- ing the mothers, working with the fathers of the families, supply'ng mos- quito bars for the windows of those who ‘were too poor to pay for them, and fur- | nilhing it at cost to the others. Every | baby in the district was visited by a| nurse at least once every week, who en- | deavored to main the confidence of the mother and teach her how to care for and protect the safety of her family in every way. The result was a distinct sur- prise to even the enthusiasts who had inaugurated the campaign. Not only was the disease rate trom what are usually regarded as fly-borne diseases cut down mnearly ome-half, and the dfath vate two-thirds, but the ‘gen- | eral death rate and disease rate of both | infants and children from all causes | was reduced tar helow the level of that | of the adjoining neighborhoods, and, in- | deed, of the average of the entire city, | Including the upper residential and the suburban districts. Even more striking and conclusive wers the results pf a somewhat similar cam- paign, or group of nelghborhood cam- paigns, carried out by the health depart- ment at the suggestion of Dr. Goldwater during the last summer, report of which has just been made. Partly to see what could be done to- ward saving children's lives by a thor- ugh and adequate house to house visit- | ing and follow-up campaign of nurses, inspectors and doctors, and partly for the purpose of fnaugurating the neigh- borhoad idea in health work; that is, & series of small districts, each of which | should have its central health office with | a small staff of nurses and inspectors, a number of districts were selected scat- tered ‘all over the city. In each district was placed a corps of nurses of sufficlent size to insure each family containing young children a visit every week, with a supervising physician or physicians, and a sufficlent number of health inspectors to promptly take steps to remedy any sanitary nulsances discovered, Little or no milk or ice or food sup- plles of any description was given away or distributed, but the local milk deal- ers and food stores were given unusually rigorous and thorough supervision, and parents were told where they could se- cure pure milk and clean food at reason- able prices. It was simply a matter of endeavoring to ralse the intelligence of mothers and fathers and awaken the conasclence and enlist all the forces of the community for the protection of the health of fts children, The results are gratifying as they are striking. Although the general health of mow York City is good and its average infant mortality below that of most metropolitan centers, the districts given this Intensive hygienic cultivation were cut down in a ringle season to something over a third of the general average of child mortality Reglons on the lower East Side and in the crowded new slums of the upper West Side actually saved nearly twice as many of their bables as did well-to- do suburban districts in Harlem and Brooklyn and the Bronx. Here is & way to check race suicide 0 La.Grippe and Colds 1= "a@rippe and Oolds, Anti-kamnis(A-K) #ublets are unexcelled, as they stop the pains, soothe the nerves, and bring the rest #0 greatly needed by nature to restore the tem to heaith. Physiolans bave used ":uum‘lorov" twenty years, wm ) in ese conditions. Anti-knmunis Tablets are : ive, 8¢ pleasant to take, 80 sal- Istastory in thelr results, and so useful jo all conditions where there is pain, that A-K Tablets should always be kept in the house for the time of need. Many ¢f our ablest physicians obtain perfeot re and oolds, b, ¥ & the patient , puLting: ll-.l:hhfll( one A-K tablet every two or three hours. This treatment will ususily break up the Worst case in & day o two, while in milder cases, ease and comfort fol- tablets are which nobody can take exception to, | nd all must admit not merely the hu- value of it. And the only magic used is simply to spend a litle more money upon nurses and health Inspectors and to raise the standard of the hygienic intelligence of the community four or five notches Some ten years ago the mayor of n large English manufacturing town, Hud- dorstield, offered & bonus, or |terally a birthday present, of $10 to overy bahy born during his term of office In order that her child be aligible for the it Erize, was necessary that the | Mmother should report her condition to the district nurse or some hospital physiclan at least a month before it was horn. Then to see that the money was judiciously ex- pended, a visiting committee was organ. ized of prominent women and welfare workers and nurses and physicians, who made it a point to see that the mother was at least shown how to provide her- self with every proper requirement in thoe | way of food and clothing for the new comer, and to give it the best of care when it came. The scheme grew upon, not merely its phrewd and kindly founder, but upon those who had volunteerd their assist ance, as its wisdom and reasonablencs: became evident. And before it was 2 months old it had dgveloped into an ad- nity but the imense racial and social | | world to a girl is clothes. mirable and smooth-working scheme for | securing proper exemption from labor for the mother, both before and after the birth of the child, if she were mill hand, and sanitary confinement in a well-managed hospital, improvement in housing conditions if these were bad, and a well-managed baby-saving campaign in general. The result was that the in- fant mortality of Huddersfield was re- duced more than one-half within the first year. A result pointing in the same direction, which provokes certain ironic reflection, was obtained in & large manufacturing town In gouthérn France. Some public spirited individual, in looking into the vital statistics, unearthed the fact that the infant mortality among illegitimate children was, as is usually the case everywhere, exceedingly high. This pitifyl fact appealed to him, and he thereupon donated a considerable sum of money to be used for the care and nutrition and protection of illegitimate children in his city, with the distinctly unexpected and almost scandalous result that within a year the mortality of fllegi- timate children fell below that of the legitimate and respectable bables of the town. Something of this sort of thing seems to have cropped out in the recent rather humiliating finding of the bureau of vital statistics that children of American born parents, born in New York, actually show a slightly higher death rate than the children of forelgn born parents. It looks as {f-our €nergeti¢ and enthusiastic children’s bureau of the health depart- men was actually giving such exocellent hygienic care to and improving the in- telligence of foreign parents to such a de- gree that they are beating the native born parents, who are left more to follow their own unaided intelligence and enter- prise, such as it is, at the noble and ex- citing game of baby saving. The safest place for a baby to be born is in a well managed hospital, and it really has come to a point where those classes which resort to the hospitals and thelr advantages most freely and fre- quently are beginning to show the lowest death rates in the community. When will the rest of the community wake up and proceed to organize for the manufacture of infant health and the re- duction of the demand for short coffins? a THE BE E: OMAHA Anita Stewart’s Talks to Girls By Copyright, ANITA STEWART. 1915, International Service. Ore cf tre most 1mpor ant things in the Men say that we spend too much time and thought on them, and they lavgh at Us be ause we judge a woman by the way she dressss. That's where Men make a mistake.' A woman gets her polities from har h e | band and her relig'on f/m her minister, but her ¢ othes and t'e way &h= we r them are her own, and th'y sho v ust Nows how much intelll- ence, how much jud ment and how much thrift she hos Also A ‘woman changés her mood when 'he changes her clothes. For the time being she's the ki‘d of ‘woman that her dress calls for, and she does and says thinvs when *h.'s g t on a slorpy wrapper that :he w ul n't dream of doinz or sayiny w'en sic had on a pink chiffon d nner g wn. If T wer> a husband I'd never t*ll my wi'e unpleasint things, thin s that eail for m lecture, unless sle had on her best dress, that made ker fe:l tyo lady and refined to get Into a real cuirr 1. However, it's a good thing f-r va women trat men arc too dull to understand the philosophy of clothes. They work us to & f'nith as It is, The stag> understands the importance of clothes and how we can lay emphasis on any quality by dressing it, o to speak. It would take a volume, for 'nstanc:, to describe to an audience the ar.less {1- nocence of a young girl whieh is being conveyed by her teing dressei 11 a rimple white muslin, with a b've ra‘h and a flower-wreathel hat. The adventuress simply shreks wicksd- ness by her red-spangled decollste gown, and we know the victim by her bl ck dress and the poor relation by her grry alpaca with turned over collar and cuffs. Nobody would t! rill over a cowb y who didn't have on chaps anl a broad- brimmed sombrero, nmor could you get any college spirit in a play uniess all of {the men had on “rah-rah” c'othes. It is because we are ‘u’gel by the { clothes we wear that we girls shculd give the subject more Intelli zent thought than ‘we do. Too many women just blindly follow the fashicn without @ny thoug t s to whether it suits them or not. That gives us the figures of fun we mee all about us —old women with gray hair dreste? u> like their granddaughters, fat women 11 styles intended for the syirhlike, rnd tags of bones public'y exhiti: d until they look like anatomi:-al displays. 1 want to say over again that gir's are judged by the clothes they wear. If* a girl 1s uressed in a nice, quiet, modest manner she can go from one end of the country to the other and be treated with perfect respect pnd:deference. But if she togs herself out In an exaggerated cos- tume—something loud and flamboyant and an exaggeration of the fashion—she makes herself fair game for ‘every street lcorner masher, And vou can hardly blame him. 1 was In a police court once when such & man was brought In for having spoken to a girl who, it turned out, was eminently proper. ‘‘Your honor,” said the man, by wey of excusing himself, it | for fun. Get some of the lessons that we she is a good girl what did she get her- self up In that rig for?” And 1 have thought the same thing about many another girl. 1 would especlally urge on business girls the wisdom of dressing appropri- ately. If two girls should go to an office applying for a job, and one of them had on a neatly tallored suit with a substan- No 8... ‘‘How to Dress Your Pu<t" { ! Anita Stewart, in an effective str;aét.costh‘rne,-sfiowing her belief in simplicity of dress, tial shirt wa high in the neck and long In the sleeves, and with a trig little hat and sensible shoes, and the other girl wore a befur-belowed and lace- trimmea silk, with high-heeled shoes and a ploture hat, we know well enough which &irl would get the job, Don't just go to the motion plctures And when we want to depict a woman who {s dr.ving her husband to drink we show her in g frowsy wrapper, with her hair up in curl papers. And the principle of the thing holds as good in real life as it does in reel life, Of course, you loye pretty clothes. So do L But I try to dress my part off the stage as well as on it, and to be simply and {nconsvicuously attired, esvecinlly on the street. And I have never had & single plece of jewelry in all my lite, not even a pin. The first plece of jewelry 1 am golng to have is my engagement ring What do you thing of that, girls? hand out there, and one of the most im- portant of them is how to dress your part, When we portray a poor girl we put her in modest clothes. When we want to get it over that a business girl is little Miss Competence we don't dress her up as it she were goinz to a ball. We put (The next article by Anita Stewart will Nose Most Puzziing of All Our Sense Organs—Dogs Have More Wonderful Noses ‘han Men.... By GARRET BEKVISS, welght one narticle in all that time. The nose scems to me the most del eate and wonderful of our sense organs What about the mystery of smell® How does the noso act? The ear and the eye work with vibrations, but how does the nose work? Do mmnute pariicles o the odorous substance enter the nose, or are tiere mcent vibrations or ls them another. yower, on the lines of eloctricity, which we know nothing about? | ‘I have read that a bt of dricd muai | will scent a room for years, and yo | the most delicate scale 1s not able to | show that the musk has decrearcd in | Then, look at the marvelous powe the hound. able to follow n sce:t through a labyrinth of tracks!~M. Chi- | eno. The opinion of physiologists | that the nerves of smell, the olfactory nerves, | are excited by extremely minute particles elther wolld or vaporous, given oft from odorous substances. What the wze of thuse particles may be is unknown. ' Evidently they are far below the oals | of ordinary measurements, Many of | them may be of molecular dimensions, | although somotimes, as in the case’ of flowers, a Visiblo dust excites the senso | of smell, but even then it i probablo | that the real agents wh'ch affeot tho elfactory merves Are perticles below the range of the microscope. In the cmses of the eye and the ear mozhanical arrangements exist whosg action we can undorstand, such &8 lonses bringing the rays of light to a focus, and “hammer” and 'anvil" bones transmitting sounds by concussion, but the nose has no machinery of that k'nd. | It has ¢imply pa’ s axd ¢'am er leadine directly to a sem' 11 61 of - o i cats filaments constituting the olfacory | lobes, and the m ment tho ter »inalx -t theio norve filaments are toched 1y t ¢ 6orous emanation tho s:nse of amell is p oivced in the brain. But the most learned physlolog'st can- not tell why one st of m rve [ aments glves us sizht, another h-aring ond an: other emell, He knows only t'e fast. On> of the best proofs that t e pa“- tiles whioh make the impressi n of amell are of excessive tenuity hah bee) ment oned by you when you refer to the metonisiing porsiitence of. the. od n of waek, Not only will a bit of mu k of No other plant gives such a quantity of food to the acre as the banana. It yieldy by weight forty times more than the potato and 133 times more than ‘Wwheat. In Germany the prefix ‘won” as In Von Hindenburg, means “court worthy.” It \s granted by the soverelgn, who alone can ralse a man from the rank of a citizen to that of a gentieman, The male heart we from ten to twelve ounces, the female from eight to ten ounces, Its average size ls about five inches long, three and a half inches wide, and two inches in greatest depth. It is sald that the bese of the Venus '} Winell ‘ot his maste of Mflo, with the name of its sculptor upon 1it, was destroyed for the purpose of decelving a king of France Into the be_entitied, “Every Girls Should Learn her In working clothes. a Trad 1t will ‘appear moon.) bellef that it was more ancient than it really was. | fize roent w rocm for an indef nte period of ~ars with no appirent dimi uton bu' rooms tiat ormerly b n habitéd by persons accistomed to u o musk, and in wh'eh na tangible or vai le tr oe of the substance ¢an te found, and which have been repsatelly swept and alred, ccnt'nie to be fil'ed with the reou T'ar od f, no'hwithstahd ng all att:mpts to get vid of 1t Thé 'einanations reem to cling to t e walls and to give forth their ceiscl ss st eams of at'my, like bubbles r.iny from ez endlossly renewed glas of ampagn>. It would appear that odor- sutstances shed o f t'ew purtl les !y a process res mbling evaporation. Une s a'mreminded of thy way tn e o in | vhich radium sets. continually shooting of{ Immeasurably mirute pirtteles f-rmed Ly tte disintegrat'on of its cwn at:ms. ANl sbstences Whataver give off ema- Tt ns chp . BIE of affecting the s-nse of Emell, but only a f°w 1 pp ar dis in Uy 0 orous th ur o, ‘noiw thetandiag the Toct that it anems 10 you ty be the most wonde ful «f our sense organs the human | Loso ia rea’ly & very imperfect Instr ment of its kind In the dog the olfactory lobes are much larger than in man, and the super- human power which the hound possesses of detecting and following trails of scent Absolutely insensible to us is due to the koener sensitivences of his nerves of rmell. On aceount of his more perfoot olfac- tory perceptions the world must appear, In some ways, quite u different piace to the dog from what It appears to us. His ability to concontrate the attention of his nose upon some one partioular weent, crossed by and intermingled with hundreds of othete, 1s a very remarkable FIft, like that of the musiclan who can | fellow a single strain or note of music hrough the blare of confused sounds. There can hardly be the alightest doubt that the dog recognimes human beings by their iIndividual odor. Even We are aware that certain animals, such n6 bears, llons, horses, cattle, ete., have characteristic odors by which we can distinzuish between species, although not between Individuals, But to the higher olfactory sense of the dog Individual men and women are often, If not always, distinguishable tram, each other. The dog knows the well as he knows his face, dnd perhaps better. No one who has been much with an in- telligent dog can avold recelving, occa- slonally, from the glances and conduct of his canine companion the impression that the dog thinks his master is ex- tremely stupld in not noticing the tell- tale odors that plainly reveal to the four-legged animal interesting things and sttuations of which the two-leggéd one: Is utterly oblivious. Below the sense of smell, or above it, If you prefer, there probably exists in cortain animals, such as insects, a still finer power of perception, which may really rest upon an electrical sense. Watch the conduct of ants or of bees, or wasps, or beetles, and you will see many things which will be likely to lead you to think that those creatures know much of ythe surroundings by mears which pefther touch, sight, sound, smell nor taste could supply. 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