The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1919, Page 11

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1919, 4; / \ HTT, My, g : | aT a i | AE Mi) Na Kops at | f eX Rows and tows of dimpled babies in little blue ea ||) S cribs with dainty white coverlids! A doctor and a staff of.trained nurses supervise their health in this Ffench nursery. Four times a day each mother gomes from the factory across the way to nurse her baby Whe Duchess of Marlborough, for- Consuelo Vanderbilt of New ‘ork, is leading the movement in England, for conservation of the Mation’s childhood IVa bonus Fay FAESRFDPSHASSSMISve TSAI eS Ss How England is conserving her baby power The birth of every child is recorded within 36 hours. Public Health Visitors go into homes and instruct mothers on the care of babies. The Home Help comes in daily to take charge of the house until the / mother is well enough to do so. Maternity Centers advise expectant mothers, provide meals, supply , ‘at cost materials for layettes. The National Health Insurance pays a maternity benefit to each mother on the birth of a child. Medical attendance at childbirth for every woman who stops work to havea baby HE world needs whole battalions of babies! Everywhere above all the debates on reconstruction problems, rises the burning question—Babies wanted !— millions of babies to replace the millions of men who gave their lives in battle! Parliaments sit in conference on it. Birth Rate Commissions are appointed. Councils are summoned to deal with the urgent problem of renewing the race. And everywhere the women have risen and pointed out, with tragedy in their eyes, “But the babies we bear—see, gentlemen, how they are being wasted! Actually millions of babies wasted every year—as many babies as there have been men killed in this gigantic war!” France leads in mothercraft Every country has heeded the words of its women. Today, governments appropriate millions of dollars, yes, even hundreds of millions, for the preservation of infant life. “Messieurs,”’ cried the women of France, “to get children, you must take care of the mothers’”’— And in no other country in the world is the protection ‘The baby — the woman — the home of motherhood carried out so logically, so completely, as in France! To every working mother, France pays 10 francs and 50 centimes weekly for four weeks before and four weeks after the birth of her child. In addition to this, her employer adds his bonus for the baby—105 francs if she has been in his employ for one year, 135 francs after three years, 165 francs after six years. He goes further! Look! In the yard of the big fac- tory, where hundreds of mothers work, there is a great new building. Here he pays 1 franc 35 centimes per day for thc scientific care of each child whose mother he employs! Gladly he pays it, as he says, “Is she not serving her country?” From the moment that she signifies that she is going to be a mother, she is surrounded by the most special care. When standing at the lathe is no longer fit work for her, she is transferred to another department where she may continue at her work seated. Her wages are unchanged, even though the work is lighter. Going home to cooking, sewing, scrubbing, washing —these strains on a mother’s strength take their toll from the health of the baby, so France provides free te layettes, free meals, skilled medical advice, proper hous ing, absolute protection from the drain of housework. England’s 800 schools for mothers! “Yes, but please hold the baby,” was the simple answer of the English mothers when war called them to the industrial ranks. + And Parliament, hastily taking the babies to free their mother’s hands, found itself staggering under the weight. Quick! A place tolay them down! Someone to bathe them, feed them, clothe them, save their tender lives! The astounding fact developed that England's work- ing women had been living and bearing children under conditions that were costing hundreds of thousands of babies! England today makes infant consultation, definite assistance and schools for mothers as easily available to women as education is to children im our public schools. It is a reformation the scope and thoroughness of which makes women hold their breath! With the thoroughness which its readers have learned to expect from it on every big woman question, Pictorial Review discusses in the February issue what this country is doing, what the world is doing to save the nations’ children, 'HREEsignificantarticles in February Pictorial Review discuss the world’s changed at- titude toward these three. is free. Special Infant Hospitals are avail- able, free of charge. Municipal Day Nurseries care for ‘the baby all day and give it three meals, all for the sum of 6d $2,500,000 yearly has been voted for Sehools for Mothers. —— No man or woman eager to keep abreast of the times can afford to miss these articles by leading American women. By KATHLEEN NORRIS ‘300,000 Babies Die Unnecessarily in This Country Every Year"’ The awful waste of it! Uncle Sam is at last awake to it! This cruel loss must be prevented Shall little children die for want of proper care? What Washington is d@jpg, what your community, wh. = you personal do to help, is the burning subject of this constructive article, APPR YDEK SR ee é ‘ By CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN “Are We Wasting Twelve Million Imerican Women?" nillion women cooking, scrub- z, tending children—all day long--in sixteen million homes ! What if twelve million of them could be released ? What if four million trained experts could perform the work now being done by sixteen million American housewives? Sanely, practically this intensely in teresting subject is discussed in this article, Every month in more than 1,500,000 homes, Pictorial Review is read —the magazine which from the very beginning based its policy on the recognition of woman’s widening interests. Pictorial Review has the largest 20 cent magazine circulation in the world. The February issue is now on sale PICTORIAL R & there is no Pictorial Review Pattern Agent or newsdealer in your town, send 20 cents for a single cony or $2.00 for @ whole yea s subscription to Pictoria! R Se alll 229 West 39th Street, New York City By HELEN RING ROBINSON \, “The Time Has Come to Discuss Birth Politics” Statesmen, legislators, governments— the rising importance of the baby has en- gaged the attention of all of them. But now it is the worman’s conception of birth politics that is to be worked out! Who better could write of the new idea Of birth politics than America’s first woman state senator? How America saves her babies In our second year of the war, America set out to save 100,000 baby lives by April, 1919. Each State has been assigned he by the Children’s B: Department of Lat Women's Committee of t of National Defense, and the follow- ing are being urged: Maternity Centers Hospital Graduated Mid wives Baby Health Stations Sanitary Nurseries for older children during mothers’ confinement Day Nurseries Babies’ Welfare Associations Little Mothers’ Leagues among school children Every mother an , expert! How to bathe her baby, how to feed him, how to keep a careful of his progress—-wegwar in- o in baby rearing is given 'y mother in the 800 Schools for Mothers in England. i nr ne aE