The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1912, Page 3

NING WORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, . a 1912," NURSE THE BABES *ASCOO TENDED, MOE TO MOTHER Rixperts at Hygiene Congress @how Only One in Thirty Breast-Fed Infants Die. DANGER IN BOTTLES. | (OF Children Fed Artificially, One in Every Five Succumb | BOTTLE-FED BABIES EASY DEA’ WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. @hould nurse their children as God fmended,” declared Dr. William If. Davis, Vital Statistician of the Health Department of Boston, before the In- ternational Congress of Hygiene and Demography at its session here to-day. “Of bables reaching the age of two ‘weeks, one in five dies before @ year 4 if bottie-fed,” said Dr. Davis, “while if breast-fed, only one in thirty falis to reach the one-year mark. This meeans that the deaths of these infants ‘would be sixty per cent. less than they are to-day if all babies were breast- fea. Some countries have already waked wp to this astonishing fact, and for example in Norway and Sweden, where mothers do suckle their children, the infant mortality rates are among the lowest in the world.” INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON CHILDREN. Dr. Gharles Gilmore Kerley of Now ‘Yerk declared he has seen many hun- dreds of children adopted or otherwise ent out into the world, and irrespec- tive of their origin they had held their wn in whatever environment they ‘were to be placed. “We may mold a child largely as ws ‘wMl,” he said, “gnd the fashioning and the molding, whother it be done well, indifferently or badly depends moro sapon the molder and the children's as- eeciations than upon the material worked upon.” He offered entire agreement with the person “who,” he said, “had declared that if two infants, one born in a palace and one in « hovel, both in fair physical condition, were exchanged on | the day of birth, each would work out! hip destiny along the lines of his en- vironment, The child of the hovel ‘would grow up to the palace and the offspring of the palace would remain on the level of the hovel. “Character indicates the individual,” Dr. Kerley asserted. ‘Heredity h Wtdle influence in determining ch: Cimracter above all things product of environment.” ‘Arguing that the State spends millions ef dollars for the segregation of its crtminals, drunkards, paupers and de- generates, Dr. Kerley made appeal for the -reation of a commission or com- mittee by Whioh the State might have eutbority over every child, « It is only by such means ¢hat we will ever solve many of the urgent problems he said. ‘Prophylaxis| a st erime, degeneracy and general worthlessness are in the hands of the public for the signal betterment of the! PROPOSES PLAN FOR WIPING | OUT TUBERCULOSIS. ‘Tuberculosis end means for its contro! | were discussed by Dr. Mary B. Laphan of Highlands, N, C., who outlined a gen- ere] plan for @ campaign which, ald, she bellevod would overcome th white plague in this country. She de-| cleared @ campaign, for the 4 tuberculosis, ole in ati ergenization to that carried on for the detection of hookworm, would have « moet desirable effect. “Le the United States should spent @ million dollars thie next year for the detection of cases of tuber- culesis,"" Dr. Laphan ead, “we should not oniy make en investment yiekting lenge returos in Money eaved, but our ability to detect concealed tuberculosis would be more generally diffused throughout the profession, With immu- nity thus established in case after case, | % gradually will be extended to the! masses, and tuberculosis will tuke Its | place among other extinct pests, Tuber- | oulosis ie rooted in the children—we mast therefore begin our attack with hem, end by producing immunity in| theme canse tuberculosis to vanish.” | TO GIVE FIRELESS FIRE. { Comminsioners Arrange It to [n- | the privilege of not having to go down- | into the firm?’ Doubtless in some in- wet IS THE IDEAL HUSBAND HAT IS THE IDEAL WIFE - - - THE 1DEAL HUSBAND, DESCRIBED BY T. P. D. (WHO IS A MAN). He does not smoke. 2h 9 He does not chew. gqqaq He does not swear. qaqq He does not stay out late at night. qqq He is sociable. qaqq He is lovable. «If Two Young Persons They Were Wedded Were to Blindfold Them- selves and Never See Each Other Until After Copyright, 1914, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York World). THESE REPORT It Wouldn’t Be Any Worse Than It Is at Present,’”’ Writes “A Business Man.” BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. pe Why seek for ideal husbands or wives? inquires a masculine reader. Why not have matrimony by com- mission? No possible arrangement, he sug , could produce more dis- w astrous results than our present ro- But why wouldn't a matrimonial steel. PRESENT WAY THE ONLY SUC- CESSFUL ONE. Sertously, however, I think the American custom of letting young per- eons arrange their own marringos Is the only method which has even @ Possibility of success. & ercat Geal of nonsense has ‘Deen printed about the happiness must be about as happy and as in- spiring as cold soup. Such a mar- riage is a failure from the start, which is a crime, . Every American marriage is called a ove marriage. That's @ mistake. Per- haps 6 per cent. fancied opprobrium of being “‘old| maids.” | Im this the twentieth century « | | “Whether she’s in love or not, there’s mo denying that ® woman likes to tack a ‘Mrs.' before her name.” She could give no reasons im support’ of her singular theory, It was just @ because tt was eo, And if it's eo th accounts for more marrisgas withou love. Then there are working girls who simply get tired and marry for town every day. ‘MEN MARRY FOR A BUSINESS REASON. As for the young men, why do #0 many marry elderly widows with for tunes?) Why do so many wed their employers’ daughters and get “taken etances these ere genuine love matches, But in all? Who believes tt? A marriage based upon real love 1s not apt to be @ faflure, Any way, what- ever happens it has been @ success Tusband and wife alike may @ay: “Whatever !s-I have been blessed.” But let the advocate of matrimany are genuine love! | matches. Love may be a contributing | but it ts not a determining factor tn’ j| the others. Women still marry for a| ! home, still marry to escape the wholly, mantic quest of ideal mates, Let all young persons with the purpose of marriage in their hearts send in their names to an official Cupid whose business ft will be to investi- gate and pair them off after the mat- rimonial commission has passed on | them. Then dispassionate judgment instead of filghty caprice will reign and all will be merry as a marriage bell guaranteed to keep in tune till the crack of doom. machine, into which one could drop a} penny and obtain the address of an eligible bacholor or a marriageble’ maiden, be even better? Ail possibilities of graft would be thereby eiimi-/ uated. The official Cupid could not be corrupted if it were made of iron or ‘about selection of ideal husbands and wives when every one of us who has Ouk. = SO « PRowounce 2 ae Jee lived long enough to got @ line on the business knows very well that if couples were blindfolded and lerally hitched before ever seeing or know- ing each other the percentage of happy marriages would be just as great as under present time-and- soney-wasting methods. Let @ commiasion be appointed to receive applications from mates and femalos who desire no longer to shun matrimony. Every #0 often, on & day set, let this commission bring together for the first time such couples as in thetr opinion from the records are of suitable age and posi- tion in life to become mates; marry them on the spot; let them begin liv- ing together as man and wife, using the money which, under the present practices, 18 wasted in the foolish outlays attendant upon courtship, in establishing @ home and providing for their offspring, Millions of wasted dollars would be turned into useful channels and marriage no more a failure, A BUSINESS MAN, Yesterday we obtained wome {dea of the ideal wife from a young woman's oint of view. To-day @ young man uppiles a much simpler ideal—that of young woman who can cook, sew nd do washing. This paragon of the $%-a-month virtues is, in his opinion, the ideal woman, As he alone can do firs her justice, let us lend him our WHEN A MAN MARRIES HIS TROUBLES BEGIN. He writes: @wear, stay out late at olaht, or drink, He is sociable and lovavie; but for the love of Mike he wonders how she ts going to get out of the net in which he has been caught. He can't tea anything she doesn't wam to She ie marrie! to dim, and t) \s od for her. Their romance ends rigit there, ‘The gir who is learned in cooking and «un- of a Series » Eleventh Article eo “Leave young young man of Washington, D. CLEANS THE HAIR AND MAKES 7 In a few moments your hair looks soft, fluffy, lus- Dear Madam: What does the mod ern man who marries get for hie? Why, be gets an 1$karat lemon, wrapped up in the latest fall fash- fons, He soon wakes up to tho fact that 1f he wante to eat anything without endangering his health he will have to hire a cook, as the wife doesn't know how to cook hot water without burning #t She doesn’t know how to sew, ehe doesn't know how to wash; in fact, she te sans by commission make his own plea: ADVOCATES GOING IT BLIND IN GETTING MARRIED, Dear Madam; Why all this tall tevtein Visiting Fire-Fighters. Were Commissioner Johnson announced today @hat he has arranged for an ela- herete programme on Fire Prevention Day, Oot. 9 which will include an ex- perimental fireiess fire in the big plant of he National Ci nor and other the fireless fl New fon. he National The 260 employees of (Cltak and Bult Company will go through | he motions of « fre drill after the iso has sounded tn the buliding, Alao will be thrilling res from windows by the crew of an ®-foot | a tadder truck, everything thi ‘deal wide should know. What about the ideal hus- He supports two on $20 a He doesn't smoke, chew, a whe o ye oF tt he cert all oxen, oe * “oe ae ll wa ta 3 “= 1 hous y mene man makes an vand of the male In Mttle ol: pretty bard Every day reveals new friends of the widow It Is Suggested That Couples Leave Choices | of Mates to a‘Marriage Commission Entirely WHEN “THEY MARRY BY COMMISSION work and who m, If any celibal @ can't find hie ew York he must suit T. P. D. ident wife. trous and abundant—No falling hair, or dandruff. BEUTUL—25 CENT “DANDERNE") SS Surely try a “Danderine Hair Cleanse” if you wish to immediately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisten cloth with Danderine and draw it care- fully through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; this will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive In a few moments you will be amazed, Your hair will be wa and abundant and possess an parable softness, lustre and luxu the beauty and shimmer of tru health, Besides beautifying the hair, one ap- plication of Danderine dissolves every marrtes | and go for wives to widows and @o-called ‘old maids.’ ” His communication fotlowe: HE DOESN'T THINK WELL OF | THE GIRLS OF WASHINGTON. Dear Madam: Girls are getting to be about the same all over the coun- try, and I would no more think of marrying the type found here in Washington, D. C, than those of New York. Men king up and tuming thet bac! Perhaps giris don’ do we, for We are not missing muah. The girls of Washington, D. 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