AN ARTISTIC TEA-GOWN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 11

AN ARTISTIC TEA-GOWN.

is so.' much more to do, r and I want you to push, push, push, this child-rescuo work harder this year than ever. Give me, one letter from a woman's heart to whom ,tho joys of motherhood have come through this campaign. Of course, I want , tlio approval of these officials—l don't mean just what I But-we arc.' finding'homes for other little children ; j and one letter tolling the joy brought to some woman's heart through a littlo child will get more results than 100 'approvals.' "The Hiishberg series will do somo good in educating mothers in the care of their children. But wo can reach so few, and only those who can afford the money The Delineator costs. And this is truo of every publication that may bo working along the samo lino. , Those who can't afford tho money also need tho knowledge. By Jovo! I have a thought! Last summer the-Health Department of New York City gave out littlo printed- slips of advice on the care or children in hot weather. If this is iir their ■ powor, it's also in their power to give advice for cold weather— tor all weathers—for all the year. This power should be' bestowed • upon tho tLealth'Departmenfc everywhere by legislation, of the Stats or.cities. I want you to agitato this idea in every way—that the. health departments in-every city in this country bo authorised to buy somo ono bo6k on tho care of children (there are a number of such books already in print), and give one copy to .every mother on the birth of a child. "This seems such a helpful suggestion to tbo second division of uiy Santa Claus wish. 'Tho State can't giro homes to homeless children, but through the powers of its health departments it can give information to mothers on the careof their.children. Tho New York Board lias gone the one short step, that confesses the power. Now, let's make them go the journey. Such books might cost the State 20 or 25 cents each. Tho lives they would save—the children grown tD healthy men and women that under present conditions die in early youth to come up pallid, colourless creatures, the germ of vitality baited over tho head at its beginning—would bring tho State a return for such investment that never can be estimated.

"How many times you and I have heard somo woman —intelligent, too, but not (when her first-born came) an intelligent mother—tearfully toll how sho lost that first-born because she 'did pot know one thing of how to care for it.' To many a young mother I've given a copy of Dr. Emmet Holt's book on children, to receive her bleosings, becanso she learned from it that a healthy obild crios two hours a day for exeroiiio, and that hors wasn't sick because it oried that way. How many other mothers, hearing their children taking that samo exercise, have thought them hungry or sick, stuffed them with food they did not need and could not handle, and made them sick I The ruined digestions of childhood —ruined by too much food, mined by too littlo food, ruined by improper food —become the weakened digestion of raanliood that saps vitality and makes tho child born with 100 per cent, of life a man with only half that gift. "Tho numberless other points on hoalfcli equally important tind more vital that, may bo givon mothers a. layman liko my.Bslf does not know. But thpy