The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1918, Page 14

; ' TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1918 Dr. Jacobi, 67 Yearsa Doctor, Talks About Long Life And Care of Children SIZE OF FAMILIES— | | | | | | | | “Rich Woman Should Have More Children, Poor Woman \ Should Have Fewer—-No Man Who Earns $10 a Week Has Right to Have Eight Children.” CARE OF CHILDREN “In New York City Too They Haven't Time to Nurse Babies—Nineteen Out of © Many Women Are So Busy Every 20 Women Can Nurse Their Babies and Should Be Made to Do It.” THE BABIES’ PARENTS— “Clean Bill of Health Should Precede Matrimony—in\ New York Poor Babies Enjoy All the Benefits, Rich Babies Absolutely Neglected—Most Defective Babies Born in High Society.” HEALTH AND LONGEVITY-- “Take More Time for Meals-To Be Happy and Healthy Have Some Sort of Work Your Neighbor More Than By Marguerite Mooers Marshall LEAN little man, clothed in qui pushed back from his wide, in to-day enters upon his a ca is still his home, No, 4° The most rem not that he is th Man of Americ. tionately and ad by persons in at being a Grand € ee with To-Day, practising and preaching the sanest progressivism. All his life Dr. Jacobi has been in- hd | nurse their babies and should be terested in babies. It is with them | that he has concerned himself ebiefly during bis years on the staffs of New York's greatest hospitals and on the faculties of New York's in- stitutions for medical training. For his services to babies he has been showered with honors and degrees. It 4s significant that this lover and savior of little children should have proclaimed himself emphatically in favor of the principle of Jimiting the size of families, “I do not believe that any man who earns $10 a week hus a right to have eight children,” Dr. Jacobi has said. “If he does have that number it 4s likely to mean that society must pay for the burying of six or} seven of them. Anybody in New| York knows what the mortality 1s | among large families of the very poor, Often the mother becomes ex hausted and unable to bear strong, | healthy children. If the children are born healthy they are likely to be affected by the evil conditions around | them which the father and mother cannot help. | “Reputable doctors ought to be al-| lowed to give women such {nforma:| tion as will limit the children to the | number that can be cared for well enough to bring them to maturity in good health, But to give such infor- mation ts against the law. It ought to be changed, but to do that you must muzzle the hypocrites, | “Undoubtedly there are well-to-do wives who are purely selfish in thetr | refusal to have children. They pre fer bridge tables to babies. The rich | woman should have more children | and the poor woman should have fewer children.” Dr. Jacobi’s views on the care of ebildren after they are born are) clean-cut and decisive, | “The baby of to-day has a better | chance than the baby of a few years | ago,” he declares, “because we get| better milk. Nothing is so good for| the infant as breast nursing, but! next to that comes pure milk from/ the cow. Of one hundred children | fed from the breast seven will die; of the same number fed on fresh | cow's milk seventeen will die, and | of a like number fed on other foods | from thirty to thirty-five will die, | “The baby who lives through the! firat week generally gets along all| right. It is generally supposed that | a baby should lose weight in the! engaged in the practi to Do—Respect Yourself, and Yourself.” aintly cut black, his soft white hair telligent forehead, his face shrewdly | lined with years and wisdom—that is the most distinguished |! physician in New York or in America—that is Dr. Abraham Jacobi, who eighty-ninth year, who impatiently refuses to be “venerable,” and who after sixty-seven years of his ) East 47th Street, narkable thing about Dr, Jacobi is ¢ Nestor, the Dean, the Grand Old in medicine—although he is affec- miringly hailed with all these titles nd out of his profession—but that, Md Man, he is so completely in step made to do it. Cow's milk should not be given raw. It should always be boiled—but only a few minuter. “New York City never performed a greater service to humanity than in opening and maintaining the large number of milk stations where babies and Iittle children can ob- tain pure, fresh milk. Untold good has been done too by the lectures to mothers given by the nurses in the ° mille stations, The lives of many children undoubtedly have been saved by information thus distrib- uted.” If a baby is going to have able care it must have suitable parents. So Dr. Jacobi has had tn- teresting things to say on the sub- ject of parentage. Here are some of them: “The addition of unhealthy, sick- ly, sick and contagious children ts 4 misfortune to the newcomer, to his parents and to society. ‘There- fore a clean bill of health should | wwe precede matrimony, The propaga- | tion of the degenerate and imbecile | should be prevented. | “There ts a general belief that the poor bables are most deficient, the most dofective, That is not so, Tho most defective babies are born In your high society, There {8 no more} stupld, more defective and more idiotic class in the world than the! ruling families of Europe. Because | of financial conditions, women fat) to select for their husbands and| the fathers of their children strong, | virtle young men, Unt choose rather the old and the wealthy, often with the result of sickly, puny offspring, | or none at all, In New York it is! the poor babies that enjoy all the} benefits; the rich bables are abso- | lutely neglected, The tenement house women know more than the women of the so-called ‘better’ classes.” If you have made good as a baby how are you to rival Dr. Jacobi's record of health and longevity?) He has his theory on that point too, “1 wish you may all live to be etghty: | he told friends three years | five, ago, “You can if you make up your minds to it, I did and that’s why I'm| here, “L wish people would take more time for thelr meals. I should like rofession at| to see the lunch counter army re: duced and people taking time to sit down and enjoy their meals, it first few days, That is wrong. A/ “I have worked hard all my Ute. | baby should gain from the start. Until its mother has food ready it| should be fed and, not starved. Every one to be happy and healthy should have some sort of work to do It | Respect yourself, and your netghbor | should be fed water with a little salt| more than yourself. Whatever you | and a little sugar, perhaps with @| work for, consider your neighbor and, luttle barley or oatmeal water. “The trouble in New York City ts | that there are too many women s0 busy keeping engagements to play cards that they haven't time to nurse thelr babice, Half a century of practice has shown mo that nine teem out of every twenty women can the community more than yourself, and consider the future of the coun- try.” Ventilation, sanitary housing, pre- vention of tuberculosis, sensible clothes for women are among the other hoalth reformy which Dr, Ja- cob! bas advocated, | A MAN WHO Eats: Ont 810 A Wen HAS NO Kiger To g CHHKOREN ¥ THIN, STOCKINGS Amd. Low SHOER- i COLD WEATHER,” Ja OR. ABRAHAM JACOBI Age BETTER Caren FoR - 4 ne ic We. SHOULD “TAKE MORE ime AT MEALS Dr. Jacobi’s Ideas on Bringing Up Babies | GIVEN FROM HIS LONG EXPERIENCE IN A MEDICAL CAREER LARGELY DEVOTED TO CHILDREN AND THEIR PHYSICAL WELFARE. the RICH SHOULD Gwe OP THE BADGe TABLE i FoR. CHILDREN A eee i | PONE Glue THE BOTs Hee NOU CAN NURSES: Yom. BABW MHESE. SHOULD, Go TO6ETHER.. Last Year’s Birds’ Nests and Straw Hats The Birds May Have a Prejudice Against Returning to the Old Home, but It’s Safe to Bet Hubbo Will Return to Last Year's Hay Hat If Wifey Has Her . Way and She Can Save the Price of a Shopping Tour of the Gay City’s Wet Goods Stores Where They Have Tango Bargains and Sell Gin Rickeys With Ginger Ale Chasers and From Where She Can Carry Home a Bundle That You Can’t Tie Up With a String—No Wonder Hubbo Tells the Kids There Aint No Santa Claus, BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyright, 1018, by The Prow Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) VEN with @ nation at war, there are some folks who insist on having sugar on thelr ple, their old bunions with new shoes, despite the fact that over in Europe there are Turks with nothing between ‘em and sfarvation but three square m@als a day, ish as a There are husbands who get as p Porcupine with ingrown quills when wifey suggests that hubby's old vest will look as good as new if it iy only turned Inside out the nation {s at war and this may seem no time to tall affairs, stitl the two subjects are closely allied. While you can have @ war without a family, still you can't have a family without a war, ‘There are two kinds of war at the present time, One is the export Although family brand and the other is the war for domestic ¢ umption, ‘The domestic Nyhoos are started by most anything and are like eating a bag of peanuts, Basy to start but hard to stop, You never saw a man yet who could stop scoffing peanuts until they all had disappeared like last January's buzzanis, The only difference is that a contractor gets paid for removing blizzards and doesn’t do it, while a peanut eater get paid for eating peanuts but does do it. ‘A wife will get sore at her hubby because he escapes to work in the doesn't morning and forgets to kiss her goodby and overlooks leaving her any money to shop with in the afternoon, Shopping !s a funny thing in New York, Years ago, before the ladles ever thought that they would think that they ought to think they should have the night to vote and get sore feet from marching In election parades, the ladies used to go shopping in dry goods stoges. Where do the ladies shop now? In wet goods stores. Ladies come all the way from East Orange through a barrage of mosquitoes fo shop at so: od tango palace where the barkeep knows how to shake up a good gin rickey, She shops all the afternoon picking up bargains, with a Ilitle ginger ale chaser on the side, and then goes home with « bundle that you don't have to tie up in @ string. Anyway, after hubby forgets to kiss wifey goodby in the morning, #ho calle him back and he kisees her and a ten dollar bil] goodby, This ts only the words and muslo for one family quarrel There aro some wives who insist on covering * | scenario, ‘There are thousands of ‘em, and each ono better than the last, Another standardized Fecipe for family ballyhoos 1# last year’s hay helmet, When the mercury clatters up into the attic of the ther- mometer, wifey clatters up into the attio of the bungalow and evicts the mice out of hubbo's last season's straw bonnet, The edges aro curled up like an eel with the colle. The dust on It is thicker than Castollia s the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge, The brim looks like a model for the toboggan slide at Coney Island. The crown has had a relapse and looks like the way a flat-wheeled trolley car sounds on a curve that hasn't been oiled since Mr, Rockefeller raised the price on th first gallon, Although blond at one time, the bamboo fedora now has a com- Plexion like the inside of a rubber boot on a dark day, The leather in the inside band has dried up like a Texas river in huckleberry. time and is harder than an shar good shap al k's heart, The outside silk band 4s in pretty except for the fact that the boll weevils have been holding it all winter and haven't read Mr, on food, A few double-barreled moths have also sunk ind, and old Father Time has eloped with the fancy bow which used to swangle so proudly in the breeze of the subway fans when they were working, Which they very rarely were, But the wift salvages the wreck, plants a little ivy on the magnifi- cent ruins, manicures it with a flatiron and massages it with Prof, Jazzbo's straw hat varnish, which 1s guaranteed to defeat any bamboo bonnet in the works, It looks lke a straw thimble, and the wife must a cc Hoover's placards abe onservin @ tooth in the think hubby's head is a thumb, Sie jams it down over his narrow gauge brow with tho ald of a lttle butter and a shoe horn, Do you blame husbands for telling kids that there aint no Santa Claus? Although tho birdica might not return to last year’s nests, you can bet four yards of those now 2-cent pieces that the Governmont hasn't comed yet that husbands return to last season's hay hats, After the wiff has natled on hubbo's straw derby for the summer, he waddles down the street looking like an ice cream cone with ears, They may invent non-refillable bottles, but they can’t invent non-refillable straw hate, which {s the reason why we always tear up charlotte russe axing after scoffing the contents, Sand the Aisne.” ; the son of the late Senator Gibson $ and is well known tn the social cir- _TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1918 How the Allies Outgassed 3 _ Their Trapped German Foes Told by Ambulance Man In “Battering the Boche’’ Preston Gibson, American, Who Won War Cross, Describes “ Mustard’? Gas and Other Deadlier Fumes and Tells of Their Effect on Soldier Victims. NFORMATION which has rea be | of the Fifth British Army a |responsible for the great advance of ched the United States,” The Eve- ning World said the other day, “discloses the fact that the rout t St. Quentin, which was mainly the Germans in their spring offen- | sive, was due to the use of mustard gas on a wholly unprecedented scale, |The Fifth Army was bombarded with mustard gas, and when the ef- fects began to be apparent the army was overwhelmed, losing guns, food supplies, thousands of prisoners, and opening a huge gap in the Brilish line, through which the German troops: poured, | “It is believed here that the great confidence the Germans had y to go through was | based upon the convi |gas would do its work before the Allies could find any means of overcoming it.” What is this deadly {gas? The effects of gassing have |been described often enough, but perhaps the first clear and detailed jexposition of the different varieties | of —including the mus- tard gas offensive—is to be found Jin “Battering the Boche,” Preston {Gibson's newly published and stirrin | western front since America’s entranc are few and modest, the author of ‘Battering the Boche” received the Cross of War with two citations the French Government, for his arlessness and devotion on many occasions before St. Quentin Preston Gibson is from cles of New York and Washington. ; He also fs the author of two suc- cessful plays. He was one of the st to attend the Plattsburg Tratn- ; ing Camp, and has served both with the French and the American Ambu- lance Corps. It was near St. Quentin last Au- gust that he observed the action of the mustard gas which was used at the beginning of a German counter attack, his is sent over in shells which make no nolse whatever compared with shrapnel,” he writes in “Batter: ing the Boche." “They drop in a field or near a trench, open like a cauliflower and exude a gas which affects the eyes so that they water | terrifically and itch | “You at once put on your gas, mask, and ff you are wise you keep jit on. The Boches have a system by ‘which they first send over this mus-| tard gas, then when your eyes pain and itch so you are tempted to lft} he mask, they firo shells of deadly | | poisonous gas, and in breathing this) you aro killed | ‘They also have a gas which It t practically {mpossible dete to which {s sent {n the same way and| which Js odorless and tasteless, is | It very poisonous, ‘The shells in| ich {t {3 carried open lke a lily The wearing of a gas mask gives one a feeling of suffocation mingled with a curious sense of a lurking |danger. The bombs drop so quietly and give out their charge of certain | death so gently that one sometimes | | finds one's self looking on all sides | |for these German gas bombs and }even thinking of lifting one's mask | to see how the stuff smells, Several | |have tried it, and men continue to! try It through curiosity. There is a! {man who makes little wooden| }crosses for them. | In eelf-defense the Allies, of | course, have been compelled to fight gas with gas, and {t is a vivid de- scription which Mr, Gibson gives of | gassing the Germans before 8st. Quentin, “It was the dawn of Aug. 24, 1917,” |he chronicles in “Battering the | | Boche,” “about a quarter of 1 in the| | morning. I must have stood there | half an hour when by the Ight of | joccasional star shells 1 saw steal- | ling over the meadows silent, death | dealing and grim in Its task, the gas, | |gas, gas. To the right and left as \far as one could see great masses of vapor went slowly toward the Boche lines, It was like a cloud of gray-blue chiffon as, borne by the} going to wind, {t sought the lives of those who tion that this * niustard 0" ae g§ story of ambulance work on the ce into the war. | Although his references to himself #——— could neither advance nor retreat. And so it went on and on till it hung like a pall over the enemy. Then resolved itself into a great cloud, wave after wave, bearing death and the greatest agony.” Then a barrage was placed in front of the German front line and another behind the German third Ine, so that the enemy could neither go backward. nor forward and was compelled te remain in the gas-infected area, Gas !8 a treacherous weapon, how+ ever, and often turns against those who use tt, It was within an hour of the Allied gas attack just described, that Mr, Gibson assisted in the bring- ing in of Frenchmen caught in thetr’ own gas, “Hore for the first time I saw @ Ras sufferer,” he writes; “the effect is terrible, The gassed men cannot wet thelr breath; they cough, spit and vomit blood. When I reached the hospital with my first load the men had suffered great agony. Bue there was no murmur or complaint. Jt is a horrible death, that of a gassed man. But only four of the affected died, we got them to the hospital so efficiently. “A great many French are caught by gas liberated ty thetr own side Nothing up to this time had im- Pressed me so vividly as gas, Inj ries of men to their arms, faces, legs or head did not seem comparable with the fate of those who Jay silently, coughing once in a while, lethargic, dorma; practically dead, wounded by this unscen spectre, “We assist the surgeon in bringing many of them to. He outs the artery inside the elbow and the blood comes out perfectly black, I take the wrist of one and bend it backward and forward until the flow becomes red, Then a bandage ts put on and the man is hurried to the base hospital” “Battering the Boche" ts pubs shed by the Century Company, A BUTTER. IN, RS. CARL ta ing In a suit bro vusband. 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