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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920 No More “Mixed-Up” Babies Plan to Have All Hospitals Take “Footprints” at Birth —_——_—_——— Also Mother’s Fingerprints as Future Proof of Relationship ‘ By Fay Stevenson. Cobreight, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) VERY thoughtful woman who expects @ visit from the stork and plans to spend a few weeks in the hospftal has said to herself: “What if the nurees should give me the wrong baby? All new-born babes look alike, and supposing my baby should be given to the wrong mcther, while I re- \ telved a baby which belonged td.an- other mother?” Much fiction has been written along this line and this “exchange ot ables” has even been known to oc- cur in real life, Just at present, how- ever, there ig @ movement to have @ll hospitals take “footprints” of the babies so that Mrs. O’Brien will not @et Mrs. Polinsky’s baby-and Mrs. Polinsky will not get Mrs. Ferrarri’s baby through mistaken ‘tdentity. ‘The Cincinnatt Foundlings Asylum has recently adopted Bertillon’s foot- print system and it is expected that in a short time all the leading hos- pitals will follow suit. In fact the ‘Manhattan Materfiity Hospital and Dispensary at No. 827 East éuth - Street has been using this system for the past two years. “The moment the baby arrives we take its footprints,” Miss Nancy E. Cadmus, the Superintendent of. the Hospital told me. ‘We believe this to pe the surest and the safest way. ‘Then we also take the mother's fingerprints so that twenty or even fifty years hence the mother or chfid can come back and their identities proved, “There are certain lines in the foot,”* continued Miss Cadmus, “which tacy gay never coange. ‘Tue foot will grow Dut those same Little lines and curves which are so individual at birth will till remain. “Before we used this footprint sys- tem we used to tag the babies by using adhes.ve plaster bracelets upon which were written their mother’s names. Even then we were afraid that during the bath these little plas- ter affairs might drop off, 80 we put two tags on the baby; one on each wrist. While that was all very well ax long as mother and baby were in the hospital we decided that the foot~ print system would be better in later years. Now we have a complete record on file both of the baby and of its mother,” At Bellevue Hospital it was said that they do not use the footprint system, but are planning to do so in the near future. “It is an excellent plan,” one of the head doctors told me, ‘a system which solves the parenthood relation for life. At present, however, we have an ex- cellent system and there Isn't a ghost of a chance of the baby going to any one but its own mother. In all the history of Bellevue not one case of a “changeling” has occurred. “As soontas the baby arrives its mother’s name is placed on adhesive plaster and fastened around its wrist. A complete record of the baby {s made, including Its weight, shape of head, length of back, legs and arms, color of hair (if there is any), eyes, &c, and placed on file, Ther to in- sure further mistakes each baby js placed in a crib by its mother’s side.” ho with all this “tagging” ayd “footprinting” in the hospitala ‘it looks as if prospective mothers will have nothing to worry over and fiction writers will have to think up cther plots than “changeling” ones —— GLIMPSES INTO NEW YORK SHOPS. OOKS constitute a large proportion of the usual Christmas gifts, It is a comparatively easy matter tc select % book for an adult but when buying books fur children much must be taken Into con- sideration. A ciiild's character is often developed by *the litera ture he reads, hence it requires care to select a book, Age and aste must @lso be considered BY ROY L.MSECARDELL Copyright, 1920, by The Prone Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 6“ RS. STRYVER'S niece, Mil- dred, 1s learning stenog- raphy and I promised that you would try to get her a position when she is competent,” remarked Mre. Jarr the other evening, “Bul why should Mrs, Stryver's niece go to work, when the Stryver's have lots of money?" asked Mr, Jarr. “Because she wants to be indepen- ent, that's whys” replied Mrs, Jarr. 1 know lots of girls who dre well to do or whose parents are, and yet they are studying for art or the professions.” “It would be much better if some of them would learn housekeeping,” ven- tured Mr. Jarr, e “That's all some men think women should know!" retorted Mrs, Jarr. “The men are getting afraid of the modern woman taking their places in business and professional life. If men are so interested in housekeeping, why don't they keep house themselves “I'm afraid it will come to that,” re- plied Mr. Jarr. “But you know as well as I do that domestic science iy being neglected by your sex." “Yes, and I'm glad of i sald Mrs. Jarr. “The wonen have had to do household drudgery for years, but now they are taking up broader vocation When I was a girl, the atm and aspir- ation of a woman's life was to get married to the first man who asked her, Now a woman has opportunities to support herself out in the business world. The day is passing when sh is simply an unpaid houseworke “Well, dearie, there's no use of get- ting huffy about it,” replied Mr. Jarr. “If you are satisfied with feminine emancipation from the dreadful fate of matrimony, I am. Let the goo@ work go on' Let there be lady boiler- makers, and lady telegraph linemen, and lady plumbers, and lady steve- dores. Let the women do all the hard work, I should worry!" “It isn't what woinen want to do, it's what they have to do,” said Mrs. Jarr, “But that brings us back to what I was saying," replied Mr. Jant. “Hero's Mrs. Stryver's niece who does not have to be a stenographer, and yet she le studying to be one. “But she wants to be use plained Mra, Jarr. "She r not expecteto go to work, ed to be married,” Phen why doesn't she study house- asked Mr. Jarr ct to keep She expectg to f she and her | ®, she can always band do n support he Y her stenography. That is, if she has to; though of course her aunt, Mrs, Stryver, has lots of money, aud Mildred will never ha to worry "Oh, all right, all right!" said Mr. J “But T why Mrs. Stryver'a mec uld be looking f a jo when she hasn't fin- ished her stenography and is engaged to be married anyway." ‘But she is erled Mr Jarr. “She wants to be ndependent because the young man she is engaged to ia 60 very Jealous.” "Te fa job?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Of course," was the reply He's ne of that’ kind that, if) Mildred looked at another fellow, would brevk off the engagement she haa to make him jealous of work All you need to do is to promise to get her a position, You will, won't yo Awd Mr, Jarr promised he woult. unselfish, devoted wif Osborne. “Selfishne ite vice, and you don’t dare encourage it In him, Ever since we were mar- best fi Do YOu FINK THERE ARE Too ANY FEATHERS, THE COLOR. OF POUR HAIR IS NOT GooD [ YOU MARRY, ; YOUR HUSBAND (\ | OVER. AGAIN BY BDITH JOHNSON id No THE FEATHERS ARE LOVELY “THAT GAN RE EASILY REMEDIED By Maurice Ketten PERFECT Ow WHAT'S NG THE COLOR DOESN'T @A HARMONIZE 5 WITH THE COLOR oF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920 | 1h memoRiAm, nov. n, 1926. | at —— 3 By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortd ) HIS Greeks of old raised an altar in the heart of their most glorious citadel—an altar to the Unknown God, a) To-day, in two citadels of civilization, we dedicate an altar to the Unknawn Dead. In Westminster Abbey, with poets and kings and ore? saders, an Unknown Soldier of the Great War lies. Under the Arc de® Triomphe another of that mighty and mysterious legion is borne. °"* The worshippers of the Unknown God on Mars Hill knew not who! they worshipped. We, who pour out a passion of tender remembrance on the stately tombs of the Unknown Soldiers, know not whom we mourn, Yet, so long as shrines shall stand, these shall stand; “Not mam ble nor the gilded monuments of princes” shel) outlast them in the soule of men. od The soldiers who fought and died In the shadow, who lost not mertdly their lives and their loves and the Nght of the sun, but even their names, their crystallized individuality, those over whom war passed the hand of obliteration and who are as if they had never been—truly, they are our Unknown Gods, in the shelter of whose pitiful protection we and our world exist. : av The known dead have their beloved who remember; the Unknowm Dead are a charge upon the nations, America, France and England, never to forget. On this, the anniversary of the Unknown Soldier's victory—for us, not for himself—we who are about to live salute him! HOUSEWIVES DESERVE MO S lop of OPHIE *TRENE LOEB. Copyriatt, 1020, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) t FTE fallowing observation was goul. She refuses to recognize fe: I - Percy feat. Before her marriage she ha made iby the Rev, Dr. Pete been w stenographer, and when her husband threw the care of the family Stickney Grant before HAIR DYED ALL COLORS VEGETABLE Churen of the Ascension this week: “[ marve) at a woman wh meals, washes the clothes, life more cheerful. It involv: Ti eat amount. of scientific’ prepare tion, and all these are met by women single banded, “The! women, Thi reate deal more. ® SVomen do not need nor want monu- ments, but a better understanding of position , 1p, marrage and thet: inotherhoott. Not only are many hundreds of gets the ttends to the children and keeps the house in order and does many other things to should be ‘a monument to ming from a man ts worthy of eommmnent Very féw men indeed realize just how big a monament ought to be put up to women who not only do the things he tells about, but on her she went to work with @ will at her former occupation. She found she was able to make enough to pay for some one to care for the children while she is away during the day. It is not easy, how- ever, In fact, It is very: dificult to make ends meet. But she smiles with — it all. “No one knows what a woman has to go through," #he said to me one day. “No one knows what women are called upon to do before they die. Little did [ realize, when as a young girl I was wooed and won by this man, who promised everything and held nothing sacred, “But, thank heaven, the children will soon be able to help a little, and then my great difficulties will be over I thank God I have the children. 1 b ote have been miserable without em.”* oa heir What this woman needs is not a families Cte Seon heal Tas wall ponument, but a@ little gift now and ‘Any man who has any doubt of Rev. yaee from some good friend or neigh- tatement has but to rem . othe historien of families in_ the hal know qnother woman whose hus- Board of Child Welfare in New York band hae become wealthy but who le ltd For years the tolled std eacrifosd viv a y jed ai Hae rahe pions fore othe her own personal needs in order that faa husband has thrown all sense of Ry ee rave and accumulate some nsibility to the winds and has ng for that “rainy day.” She wi ert ge the one who urged the saving, and ee ite and four children are 44 without in order that they might struggiing slong from day to day, not “Vold later hardships, Fourth Insta'ment, “DON'T SPOIL YOUR HUSBAND.” “eé HATEVER you do, don’t spoil him.” Such was the climax of every piece of advice my married women friends had attempted to give me. Their harangues invariably came to the same end. “Remember this, Auna—not one man in a thousand is able to appreciate an ." declared Mary is man’s favor- ried L have made a point of kceping Tom stepping pretty lively to my tune, Believe me, he does all the fetching and carrying in our family, and like every well knows just where he stands.” ated husband, he I had Invited a dozen or so of my ends, married and single, to wany trousseau a fow days before the wedding, and afterward to have a cup of tga, and it was on this occasion that much of this conversation took place, “A man values the woman he nas to maké a lot of swcrifices for," agreed Janie Miller, who Was putting ihree lumps of sugar in her tea, “When Rob and I were firet married, I mad the terrible mistake of waiting on him and hu:noring him in all of his foolish whims. 1 was the angelic little wife— up every morning at 7.30 (o sat break- fast with him It was ‘Bobbie, by your leave,’ and ‘Bobble, it shall be as. your lordship wants it,’ until he was not fit to live with. T om certainly glad that I saw mistake before it became fatal, ‘Take my advice and bogin right, Alma, Don't let Hugh start any lord-and-master business with you. [f he does, nip it right in the bud." This int scene, which had rather am eat the tine, and the admonitions of my friends, came back d 1 sat over our cof fee that first evening in our own hoe As I arose fr the table stru a match, which I held to Hugh's ¢ rette, while T bent over and lig touched my Nps to his forehead, banished their w the raid and sjniate r those who had fallen jreains of happiness In another moment Hu Into the livin 1 d picked up the evening paper and 1 settled himself into the roomiest aud sanat comfortable of our chaing to me as Hugh h had passed i had ratber expected that after that first meal Hugh would play the de- Voted husband by offering to help me with the dishes, For weeks | had been picturing Jn my mind a delignt- ful domestic scene, a charming idyl wherein Hugh would be my happy pelner, Together we would clear off the tab| chairs back In place, while I gathered up the glasses and silver. AsT washed the dishes, my naturally curly hair be drying them on my lovely mono- grammed tea-towels. ‘It must be just sheer thoughtless- when It became apparent to me that Hugh had overlooke to play first ald to the quegn of his new kitchen. 1 remembered That Jean Copeland's husband always helped her with the dinner dishes, and [ heard of unselfish spouses who spent their Saturday afternoons off sweep- ing and cleaning the house. So I took courage and, stealing up behind Hugh and speaking straight at the back of his smooth, shining black head, 1 said dear, don't you want to dishes for your little Sweetie Peach? Hugh jerked around in his chair with a sudden violence that startled me “Alma,” ain d he replied sternly and in @ ct ad level of tone, “drying as well as washing dishes is your part of the marrage contract until we can afford @ servant to do that work, and we will have one, I assure you, just & oN aS that is possible. But in the mean time you might 43 well under- stand that so long as you are in your usual health and strength I have no possible intention of playing the house aid. I expect you to take cure of your part of the bargaln, just as I expect to hold up mine, I could have died more easily than I could have uttered one word—so rtunned was I by Hugh's manner and tone, to say nothing w Silently and slowly 1 made way back to the kitchen. With trembl hands and the sharp salt tears streaming dowm my cheeks and fail.ng into the dishpan, I heavily took up the task I so blithely had begun, (To Be Continued To-Mgrrow.) erie, 0d, bs “The Beli By nc.) he E = Kid vening World's die Klub Korner 300, We The Prem Pestenins On (he Bow Fore Grenmne Wounds Conducted by Eleanor Schorer CONNIE GO'PATRICK AND THE FAIRIES. * ‘OW, as everyone knows, Ireland is thelqnd of fairies and most has believed in much better 1 Retold by BTHML BROPHY, aged eleven years. fairies and has LETTERS FROM KIDDIES. Dear Cousin Bleanor One morning when I went down the postman handed It was my check for winning You don't know I jumped for Joy. Rut { am going to tell you of one that did not believe in them and what befell him, Connie O'Pat- rick had never believed even when his good mother told him stories about them when he was a He laughed and said there glad I was. thank you very much. Your loyal Cousin, MARGARDPT ROOHE, Brooklyn, N.Y. after dinner, Hugh carrying Child. out the heavier things and putting the were no such things. When Connie lished a ferry across the forming ttle lovelocks as I leaned and very prosperous was he. over the steaming pan, Hugh would night when he was in bed he heard a knock at bis door. opened the door and what a ness on his part,” I sald to myself met his eyes! Dear Cousin Eleanor: You are the dearest, dearest girl Fiver [ did know, I Baw you a few weeks ago— Gettl he spree “The Wishing Hundreds of fairies { looked and looked all over For one just half as sweet, But never In my lifetime 4 hia opportunity bout his door all talking at once #0 Did [ your equ loudly that he did not know what it was all about until one of the fairies had came up and asked him if he wou!d his companions across I suppose it muat be told, I'm a little boy, Dear, Just seven years old I know what | would do ries promised to give him I'd go and meet you, @ gold piece each so at last he con you are married! sented to row them across, bole I'll just kee a t t SEYMOUR ASTOR GOLDBERG, boat so hard that Gennie the boat reached thousand thanks from m around to tell the Ree ew On Columbus Day to my He waa 80 astonished that he could as quickly as he when he looked into the cup In which fares another Every gold ple Two months sight met his eyes. wonderful « tom of his boat and last four we: had gotten this out to put in the had expected a box In the of bis harsh gold pieces } wil look Intu my box of «ht of it will strengthen box expecting to see silver coin tut in the box was of withered leaves. er since then Connie O'Patrick We saw Bunker Hill and stayed 1d, and at some I shall never forget Werk City. pome big hot inna sometimes. only to keep the wolf from the door but to retain their self-respect as well, ‘This mother is a most cheerful SCIENCE NOTE: HE life of worn carbon pa- per can be lengthened by placing the sheets to- gether, face to fate, covering them with paper and ironing with a warm flatiron. A Russian inventor claims to have perfected a motor that can safely utilize electricity drawn from storm clouds. The Swiss Government is plan- ning to érect a powerful radio station at Geneva Mounted on the back of a re- cently patented dressing chair for women is a triple mirror, And now she suffers more than she’ ever ‘dreamed, They have children too, buf he de- nies the family a# well as the wife. She has to use strategy and prac- tically steal what js truly coming to them In the way of creature com- forts, to say nothing of pl asures, The spirit of this woman der such olrcumstances |s only doe to a say the least. She not only does her own work, but does a little extra sewing for other people in order/ that her children might have some youth- ful pleasures, ‘i This woman does not need a monu- ment, but a part of the money al helped to make. There ought tol some way by which she could get It besides the ‘manner in which gh now forced to appeal for ft, a And #0 I could go on aud eit instances Ike this, Women parts of the world are daily giving tho best that is in them Anheralded and unknown, All men might well rox take a little time to refleet on this. If they did many @ woman's efforts Would be appreciated and her burdens alleviated it, and I wish that all) my Klub Cousins could have gone, too, Your loving Cousin, ARLETTA KNICKIDRBOCKER, New York City. XMAS POEM CONTEST, Ten awards of one dollar each will be given to the ten Kiddie Klub members, aged from six to fifteen tn- clusive, who write the best poems about Christmas The poem must be orginal, The wender must have thought up the idea, which may be jolly, serious or religious, just as the author may wish to make it Poems must not be copied nor writ- ten frdém memory, and the contestant must not accept help from elders, A note from the parent or teacher of the sender, 8 that the con tribution ts original must accompany each m. Write NAME, AGE, ADDRESS and (PRTIFICATE NUMBER dis rinetly Address | N Kiddie Klub, No. ¢ York City Contest closes Tuesday, Nov. 30 OCTOBER CONTEST WINNER. Ten-Year-Old Class. 4 -go1s h- 2—- WARa~? ay £erp—or—snairo~ A buoy is made to warn low water, ft ing World ATTACKS CRITICS OF | To the Fditor of The Evening World ] “ices read with deep intends +—,- HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB ayo OBTAIN YOUR PIN. © COUPON NO. 697, BORGLUM STATUE. your request for criticism | fl Solon Borgium’s “Aspiration,’ and herewith submit my unpregu diced opinion, based on my study, pt art throughout Western and Centgal Europe. ' I must disagree with the critics do Park Row, New their censure of Solon Borglum's 4@w cfeation. After careful and dv temptation of “Aspiration,” f find that {t 18 admirably executed, grand, a perb and Indisputably a worthy oan an ribution to the world of art. Inj Jts symbolic tmpressiveness one ¢&n readily appreciate the genius ede4ts creator: The critics call It “immodest, crude, disdaintul." Sophocles philosoph{ze truly that tgnorance is worst evils The: is some ‘consolation in the knowledge that there are some who appreciate, and, even if the pres- ent generation fails to appreciate the genius amen of doubte as ole of the greataat, Solon Borglum he wll une ly} acclaimed posthumously y PHILLIP GOLDSTEIN, New JULES 8 TAY) Brogktyn, N. ¥.