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SVSATUR DAY, § EPTEMBER 20, 1919 Has the Civilized Mother; Learned to Neglect Her Children? *< SOME WOMEN, ASSERTS DR. MARY GORDON, POORER MOTHERS THAN CATS AND DOGS snd bul btoy rad wo »™ Jrresponsibility to Blame, solo ory ons to Her Baby. 3 1 a oO ai Copyright te, be children,” a &. ee ¢ +, Dh wi ? a = te * "i mature years, tn the industrial classes among whom, m the course of my work, I have ‘known many instances of tnobriety and child neglect, Some of these women seem to have no natural at- fection at all, On the other hand, can A the mothers of kittens and muppice ‘ever be charged with neglecting their § onilaren? “But among mothers of every class to-day there is neglect of children Deoause of frivolousness and irre- sponsibility, In London the working ‘woman had rather go to tho picture palaces than stay at home and clean her house. Women of wealth and po- ‘gition are too much inclined to leave their children to servants while seek- img their own pleasures, and are too Mkely not even to exercise proper pre- y cautions in selecting their nurses, ¥. “When children are left in the care Yat persons with low and vulgar minds, the children themselves acquire a low ‘nd vulgar viewpoint, Also, thelr hhealth is Ukely to suffer. The mor- tality among little children ts appall- ingly unnecessary, The refined, intel- Ngent mother who wants children of whom she can de proud should as- 4° poctate with them as much as pos- 1 ie einte, {oa find,” added Dr. Gordon, with a Vee mote of mingled reproach and won- derment, “that women to-day do not take the joy in their children that they should, There again, I suggest ‘that they pattern after the dog and eat mothers, Those romp with thelr ,Shildren; teach them games and share their fun, A well bred dog will play joyfully with her puppies unti] they ‘== re almost fullgrown, Why should ~ fot human mothers sport and romp “=~ with their little ones?” @. “There are women,” I suggested, @ “who think they have more important things to do, They consider their elub. or their social work of more valldity than the personal care of their babies, What do you say to | wa ‘that?’ “f gay those women are freaks!” 1 Dr. Gordon replied, with exclamatory emphasis, “I say that they do not doserve to have children, “When a woman has a baby she @hould make up her mind to give much of her time to it for the first few years of its life. She should consider that her foremost duty, and be glad and proud of it, And she should have, I think, as many chil- ren as the good God sends her," “But you do not think the instine- tive animal affection is enough for bringing up a child wisely, do you?" T questioned. “Ought not a really eonecientious mother to study the science of baby culture and the new- *: est discoveries of baby hygiene?" “Most certainly,” agreed Dr, Gor- don. “And I consider it a great re- , proach to women that all the patent foods, the new modela in cradiem wee ee ewes eee ee ee ee een oe ee ee eee eee Sees wee eee See Prefer Club and Social Work to Motherhood and Care of Their Babies Are Freaks and Do Not De- serve to Have Children—Mother’s First Duty Is ’ She Says—Women Who By Marguerite Mooers Marshall 1019, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Byening Word). ANY women do not make as good mothers as do cats and dogs. In civilized countries women have learned to neglect their That is the charge brought by one of the most dix Unguished and interesting delegates to the International Conference of Women Physicians now being held in the Y. W. C. A. headquarters at No. 600 Lexington Avenhe. The critic of the modern mother is Dr. Mary Gordon, of London, who is inspector of prisons and reformatories in England and Wales. During the war Dr. Gordon was out with the Third Serbian Army. with thi¢k, iron-gray hair neatly bobbed, a crisp, mellow voice and a crisp point of view which she does not hesitate to express. “When I made an unfavorable comparison between the mothers of ‘babies and the mothers of cats and dogs,” Dr. Gordon explained to me at the Y. W. C. A. convention headquarters, “I was thinking of the women She is a woman of PeramDulators and little chairs, every mechanical device in and about the nursery should have been invented and perfected by men.” Then Dr. Gormion enunciated one of her own theortes of baby hygiene. “Most babies are fed wrongly,” she asserted. “There fs too MNttle variety in their food and it is too simple, Tt ts good for them to suck a clean bone, @ hard crust, a green apple When they get a@ ilttle older their Met should be as varied as that of their parents. They are usually gtven too much starch and noe pud- ding.” Ghe added a sentiment for which every small child owes her a vote of thanks, “Let the children have the sweets they crave—the jam and the various forms of sugar, It will not make them greedy to let them cat what they want and eat heartily. A healthy child is greedy for any sort of food only when it is not allowed to eat a sufficient amount of that food, The tendency of the mother is to give the child what is easiest to prepare, and so It does not eat enough dif- ferent sorts of food. It ought, in most cases, to have more sweets, more fruit and a diet more nearly re- sembling that of its father and mother.” I asked Dr. Gordon if she attributed to a dearth of maternal attention the impertinence and lack of discipline shown, according to critics, by the younger generation to-day, “It the mother does not by her in- fluence and association teach her child manners, she cannot expect it to acquire them.’ However, Dr. Gordon thinks moth- ers are getting better instead of worse, even though there still is room for improvement, “ven before the war, in England,” she said, “there was a very general movement to improve the quality of our children, the mothers of the leisure class were taking a new in- terest in the sort of attendants chosen to associate with their sons and daughters, and the mothers themselves were spending several hours a day in the nursery or out- doors with their children, "Then, too, there is little to criti- cise in the dress of the children of to-day. The smocks and straight, simple garments give them plenty of freedom for exercise and growth. I believe that children, unless un- usually delicate, should go barefoot in clean places in the country, when the weather is suitable, “Finally, we at least have gotten rid of the Victorian child, that quiet, prim little prig, afraid to laugh or talk loud, afraid to say its soul was its own, It is no longer even our ideal of @ perfect child, and in hay- ing eliminated that type there is a reat gain.” NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE. According to & North Carolina chem- ist @ palatable oll equal in food valve to olive oll can be obtained from cockle burr Kernels, oe e Forestry experts have found that a plant growing luxuriantly in the Phillippines and heretofore thought a weed is used In other parts of the Far East for the production of cam- phor, : re So extensively does powdered ani. mal horn enter into native remedies “TREES end FLOWERS HAVE BEEN” PLANTED IN FRONT of The HOUSES MAIN STREET of ONE of The RECONSTRUCTED VILLAGES. goretmteas LADS: alginic HOMES IN AVILLAGE * task of reconstruction un- dertaken by any group of neer VEROUN Americans, a really gigantic job, Quite typical of the present. age of very big things, As every one knows. a considerable} and influential body of American peo- ple, living in Pensytvania particular- ly, but now also spread out all over the United States, are adherents of the Quaker bellef introduced in this coun- try by William Penn and his follow- ers. Every one also knows thit thoy are conscientious objectors to war and that their religion does not permit them, under any circumstances, to take up arms, yet history furnishes ample proof that no more patriotic people exist than the Quakers, The financier of the Revolution, Robert Morris, was 4 member of the Society of Friends, and he is only one of hun- dreds of his religion who have helped their country in times of stress. When the present war loomed on the horizon, no group of Americans was more opposed to the arrogant pre- tensions of Germany, its militarism, ite autocracy, which struck at the root of individual liberty of con- sclence, its unscrupulous methods, than the Friends, They sympathized with those whose duty led them into the fighting ranks and with the gov- ernment which was struggling for righteousness, However, they them- selves could not take up arms, yet as patriotic Americans they could not be content with @ negative testimony against Germany, They felt that they must do something big and practi. cally helpful and as the relief of) in China that some of the largor | ‘!vilian sufferers in France seemed to medicine factories maintain herds of|be their line of duty, they volun- deer for their horns. erway Australia produced ounces of gold tn the first 160,650 fine| with the American Red Cross, teered their services and their means in this cause, working in conjunction The seven| assistance they gave in half a hun- months this year as compared with| dred different directions was tremen- $53,074 fine ounces in the similar| dous. Det Mast YORE os: aisalsatl sams The French Government was ao im- American Q » 2 HIS is the story of the biggest! pressed with the help the American means solely, wibhow | Quakers had rendered to the stricken | people of France during the terrible days of the conflict that when the go home. Instead, it immediately se- lected these selfaame Quakers to put in operation and carry to a successful conclusion the biggest of all recon- struction plans, namely, the rebulld- ing of no less than forty more or less important French villages. While other bodies of Americans have also undertaken wonderfully helpful reconstruction work In France the way they and the Quakers are going about it is difter- ent. The Quakers are not only sup- plying the very large sum of money needed to carry on the work, but they are also doing practically all the work themselves. They are not only sawing, planing and fashioning into proper shape the lumber needed for the houses, In factories they have established in France, but their young men are repairing all those houses not beyond it or removing the ruins of the dwellings in the deserted vil- lages, and digging the cellars for the new ones, and then building the homes, They have even gone #0 far as to establish and operate factories in France for the manufacture of plain but serviceable furniture and other household fixings to put into the homes and make them livable and attractive when they are finished Finally, they are distributing these things a8 needed; all this labor, call- ing for hundreds of workers, is volun- teer, #0 that the cost of administra- tion is only about $3.50 for every $100 expended, That is, $96.50 goes to actual relief and reconstruction, The rank and file of the Quaker workers receive board, clothing, trans- portation, but only one franc a day in actual wages, Under these cir- cumstances, it is easy to understand the small overcharges, and why the Friends have been able to undertake the work practically out of thelr own a a & o ef war was over it refused to let them/ akers, Forbidden by Faith to Fight, _ Are Now Rebuilding Forty French Towns Gave Up Jobs Here to Work With Red Cross During War, Stayed in France to Aid in Reconstruction—Not Only Build Houses, but Make Furniture, Plant Crops and Raise Live Stock to Supply French Farmers PHOTOS By SIkMiAn Cae “By INVENT Mion their low Ameri co bute in @ country-wide +aaNt are proud of this and very-justly wer Many of the men, syouag, old and middle aged, owho, are-employed in this work ims(Franve,.@axe up well Paying positiond at huMevto under- take it and this without thé patriotic |urge of the war back of ttm, for the | war is over, andthe’ tusk jn hand ts one of reconstruction, whlgh It la esti- mated will cover @ peripd, of severa) years, ' The head of the. work in France was, till after the wat broke out, the Goveruor of the Federal Reserve Bank of the Philadolphia distMct. He re- signed his place to give his services freely to the people of @ war stricken nation, The only outside help of moment the Quakers have so far had in their big task is the furnishing of some of the material for the house building by the French Government, The villages they are rebuilding are in the thoroughly desolated and bom- barded region of France, lying be- tween Clermont-en-Argonne and Ver- dun, Although at one time one of the finest and most populous farming districts in France, when the Friends took hold of the work of reconstruc- tion it was a deserted and unocou- pled country; roughly it runs from a little beyond Clermont-en-Argonne on the west to the left bank of the Meuse on the east, right up to the edge of the town of Verdun, which is iteelf excluded. The southern limit includes Futeaux, Clermont, Augeville, Jube- court, Nixeville, and on the north the istrict stretches toward Montfaucon and to Varennes, In the towns where it is impossible for the Quaker workmen to restore and rebulld the ruined houses, they are building maisons-demountables, or, in plain English, wooden, portable houses, Such dwellings will last for years and have the advantage over stone dwellings that they take but % ) re OTe em caine A, the €RIENDS eUPPLY a 76 ONE THIRD Cost qu NITURE HOME MADE MOTOR TR CONSTRUCTED from WAR TIVE YOUNG QUAKER m PHILADELPHIA family life, These sectional houses are manu- factured by the Friends at two dig have an output at present of about creased, Another shop at Ornans is entirely devoted to the making of all kinds of furniture, To those who are able to pay for it, the Quakers sell this furniture at about four-fifths of the wholesale price, They also sell, on the same plun, sewing machines, seeds and tools, Perhaps the provid- ing of garden séeds for the whole area under its direction has been one of the soundest, if not the diggest, piece of construction work tho Quakera have yet done, Bee raising has been in active prog- ress by the Friends in France, dur- ing the past year, and thelr bee- keeper now has enough bees ready for anyone who has kept bees be- fore the war, and who seriously wish- es to take it up again, Mention should also be made of the stock raising farm at Vanault-les-Dames, in the the Marne, operated by the Friends, where chickens, rabbits and pigs are being raised, and where the Argonne region, The Agricultural Service of the Friends has started ah equipe at Bra. en-Argonne, The system has adopted of ploughing up one large block to be used a# a communal garden for Vegetables and gates by the farmers and Villagers.» Agricul. tural equipes have als Dombasle-en-Argon: viny about, and! New to work the villages round ‘The large central base of the Quak- ers’ Agricultural Service is located at La Grango-le-Comte, which has been put at the disposal of the Priends by the Prefecture, RET Wy ae | no, no, that would never do, She does ep cetning By Fay S tdétoring ts passe. *n auto, trevet or aviation pi' during the entire ~ the epirit of adventurms, That is why causé I admire their athletic ways. Now the Franch girl is very differ- ent Ghe does not care so much about learning to run things hetself, She ts not #0 Independent, @o full of initia- tive oF 6o daring. She will be sad to go for @ spin in an auto or any alr- plane—~yes, with some one else, but sho does not think of dashing about the streets herself alone in a machine} ay the American gir, Indeed, if French girl takes a car out and drives (it herself many will stare at her. | And an to teaching her to fly--oh, no, | not want to learn, T Ustened to Mile. Herveux's de- soription of the difference between ; the ‘athletic American girl and the French Madamolselle spollbound. My} attention was divided between her charming accent and her chic Freeh tailored sult. Naturally I was tm- mensely intereatod in the length of nor okfet, after our royal battlé con- long or. short ones); The aviatrice just arrived from Parte last Satutday and her skirt waa, quite yes, more than quite short, so it rather looks as if our famous New York designer, Mr. Zalud, wa right when ‘0 announced that Paris woud wear ‘em short and New York long! “Then the American girls made apt pupils At learning to fly In Paris?” y asked, trying to forget charming ac- cents and stunning French suite and uft my thoughts upward to flying. “Indeed it was the American girls who first gave me my inspiration to come here," was the quick reply, After the armistice was signed I was transferred to the mail service and worked between Paris and Brussels several months, after which I was en~ gaged in paswenger-carrying fights about Paris, Of the 800 passengers I carried there were ten American of- cers, one French woman and all the others were American girls of the ttle time to construct! and thus the} Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and ambu- refugees are more quickly able to r=] lance service turn to their old homes and estabdlist! you call enthusiasm of the American once more the hearths around which | gins for fying that I decided to come they can begin to reconstruct theit|t. New York and try to make my liv- It was because of what ing by instructing American women in flying.” “and do you expect to use one of factories at Dale and Ornans, in the] our American planes or did you bring Jura Mountain region, The factories} your own along?” “Ant L have always used the fifteen completed houses a week, but} trench planes and now I have to try this production is being rapidly tn- an Amepican plane for the first time. I hope to have # try-out Saturday morning.” “At Mineola or Garden City? Mile, Herveux shrugged her should- ers and looked a trifle puzzled. “Per- haps it may be one of those places, I forget the name of the place, but I know it is to be somewhere out on Long Island, As soon as I master the _SATURDAY, SEPTEMBE {Athletic American Girl World’s Very. Best Type ‘ Of Natural Aviatr R. 20, 1919 Ice Mile. Jane Herveux, French Woman Pilot, Says American Girl’s Spirit. of Adventure, Love of Outdoor Sports and Enthusiasm Give Her Great Advantage Over French Girl in Learning to Fly. tevenson Coprment, 118, by The Prem Pubtiamins Oo. (the New York Rrening World), TRLS, do you want to learn to fly? Of course you do, because it is the next etep in the athletic world and possibly in the business world. There was a time when a girl could spin about in a little yellow soadster and attract some attention, but now, since ¢o many girls have deen Griviag war ambulances, since nearly every machine you #ep has a woman at the wheel, The, next thing is to pilot a plane And acoording to Mlle. Jano. Hervedx, the French avia- tice, it’s twice as easy 16 @n airplane as it is to run he Mie. Hierveux ts the fitet French woman to earn @ lot's Li¢atise. This was ‘n 1910. Since then she was in the Four Miihdred and Seventy-second French Air Squadron and engaged in instruction work . And now ahe is here in New York ready to teach Awesican girls to fy. Who wants to be her tirst pupil? “Oh, the American girls are so full of what you call enthusiasm,” said Mile. Hervoux In her suite at the Waldorf. “They are so bubbling over with I came here to teach them to fly. be- RVR my American pupils, They are so en~ thustastic, so full of adventure and ready t6 learn,” she repeated. “And I believe that there are two classes of girls who will be especially anxious to fy—the girl who loves outdoor sports, what you call the athletic girl, and the wirl Who wants to make flying @ reg- Ular wage-earning business. “In @ short time I fancy we shall have many passenger planes fram Up- per Now York to Lower New York and trom one city to another. And no doubt most of the mail service will be by air- * Planes. It seems to me that the woman aviator has a big field ahead of her, And flying would be such # healthy, strength-building work. The American wirls Are so efficient and so capable at’ motoring that of course they will jump’ at the opportunity to fly.” And then I asked that old, old question, we always ask people who come to New York for the first time, + “What dq you think of our city?’ Mile. Herveux jumped to her feet and clapped both hands together. “I, Jove it!” she cried, “and I hope I shall never have to return to Paris, It ts my: ideal city, and I have only - been here six days, so that is eaying @ gregt deal, is it not?” Now whether you want to fly or: not rests entirely within your own sporting spirit, If you do, you have’ your opportunity, and by the way,: please do not call Mile. Herveux: “Captain” of the 472d French Air} Squadron because she does not like American plane and compare it with our French models I shall be ready fot this title and Insists it does uot be- long to her. 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