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Mothers. Keep Your Babies’
hands Covered
And I rain I hem From the Beginning to Keep I heir h
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Out of I heir Mouths
Copyright, 181J
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Millions of mothers worry because “There is something
wrong with the child's stomach."
Digestion is bad, sleep is irregular, the lips are crackled, un
healthy looking—there are signs of the dreaded colitis, which
takes so many thousands of children to the grave.
False diet, foolish feeding based on ignorance, AND EAT
ING AT IRREGULAR HOURS, menace the health of many
children.
The mother that has lost one child or more lives in constant
apprehension, and is almost in despair when signs of illness show
themselves.
We want to-day to impress upon all mothers ONE THING
THAT THEY CAN DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
One of the most famous and one of the ablest doctors in
this country was called in by a mother to take care of a child
that showed signs of illness, and his first question was this:
"Does your baby put its fingers in its mouth a great deal?”
He then impressed upon the mother—the child was not quite
two years old—that she must above all things prevent her baby
from putting dirty fingers into its mouth.
And this is the idea that we want to impress upon all moth
ers TO DAY, and that without putting them to the expense of
seeing the doctor quoted above. From him a few words of ad
vice would cost twenty five dollars.
Remember that children are sometimes poisoned by disease
germs IN THEIR FOOD
But FAR OFTENER THEY ARE POISONED BY GERMS
STICKING TO THEIR FINGERS WHICH THEY PUT INTO
THEIR MOUTHS.
It doesn't matter how careful you may be, your child is
bound to creep on the floor, to fall down upon its hands on the
sidewalk, to grasp a railing, etc.
Whenever a child s hands touch the sidewalks, or railings,
or the floor, THEY ARE APT TO COME IN CONTACT WITH
GERMS THAT PRODUCE DISEASE.
Jrr the big cities especially this danger is great.
1 norant men who should be controlled and punished by law
sit upon tne benches in the parks, spitting upon the sidewalks j
where little children are put to play.
This is actually a crime against human life—a crime none
the less dreadful because it is based upon ignorance.
To see a consumptive sunning himself on a bench in the
'public park is pitiful. You pity the unfortunate man, as he
coughs painfully, and he deserves pity.
But, as he scatters about hint the germs of his disease, he is
actually endangering and often destroying lives of healthy
children that go to play in that park.
It is impossible to keep children shut in. It is impossible to
keep them from the parks and the streets and from crawling
about on the floori
BUT IT IS POSSIBLE TO PROTECT THEM.
To the mother whom we have mentioned the able doctor
said:
“Keeping your child's hands washed frequently is a good thing—but
't is no protection.
“Keep COTTON GLOVES ON THE CHILD'S HANDS when it is
playina anywhere outside of its nursery—and, better still, keep them on
also when it plays on the nursery floor.
“A child will not put cotton gloves into its mouth—it doesn’t like the
feeling."
There is very simple advice for mothers that worry about
their children's health.
If your baby is in the teething stage, you know how the
wise old mothers will tell you that you must EXPECT trouble at
that time.
You are told that teething affects the stomach and causes
sickness, bowel complaint, etc.
Teething DOES affect the child's DIGESTION. But it does
not actually introduce into its system the germs that produce
disease such as the dreaded Summer complaint.
Children are subject to disease especially when teething.
BECAUSE WHEN TEETHING THEY ALWAYS HAVE
THEIR FINGERS IN THEIR MOUTHS, and they are always
introducing dangerous germs into their systems in that way.
Two pairs of cotton gloves for the baby would not cost very
much—and we wish that the managers of big stores would put
such gloves on sale as an act of public usefulness, and advertise
them at the very lowest possible price.
Occasionally a child suffering from teething will put its
fingers in its mouth in spite of wearing cotton gloves. In such a
case very rough woolen gloves may be procured that will cer
tainly answer the purpose.
Mothers can do much, also, by making it a habit from the
baby 's first day to train it to keep its fingers out of its mouth.
A gentle touch of the hand each time that the little fingers
are put toward the lips will gradually accustom the child to the
notion that its hands and its mouth must be kept separate.
Meanwhile we advise mothers of children under five years
of age—and. better still, up to seven years of age—to try this ex
periment of keeping them gloved with cotton when they play on
park sidewalks or street sidewalks exposed to disease germs.
P. 3.—Some mothers will say: Well, my baby always had
his hands in bis mouth, and HE didn't have gloves, and HE
didn't get any disease."
We are glad to hear it. But what is true of one child is
not true of another. And what is true of a child one day is not
true of the same child ANOTHER DAY.
A chilu absolutely healthy and strong is able to throw off
and get rid of the disease germs that get into its system. A per
fectly healthy child with a heart acting strongly and the blood
in good condition could swallow a good many tuberculosis germs
without getting consumption.
But as soon as something happens, when the vitality is low,
he heart action ieeble. THE GERMS ARE NOT THROWN
Iff.
They estaoli&u a foothold, they breed with lightning rapid
it'. and then it is too late to save the child. Prevention is better
than cure, and there is r.o better prevention than keeping the
ciuia s own hands from putting diseases into its mouth.
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Breach of Promise Suits
Dorothy Dix Says That Every Man Has a Right to Change His Mind
No Woman Who Is Really Hurt Will Drag Her Wounds
Before the Public For Monev.
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By DOROTHY DIX.
A TELLING blow for s*ex
equality has just been
w struck by a Brooklyn Su
preme Court Justice who has
ruled that the right to change
your mind is not the sole pre
rogative of woman. Mere man
has the same privilege.
In a breach of promise case, in
which a fair lady Was suing a
faithless swain for renegging on
his promise to marry her the
Justice made the following rule:
"In the modern days of suf
frage agitation,” he said, “we
must not be too severe with the
men. as long as no unfair ad
vantage has been taken of the
j women
“I am not going to lei this
young man Tot in jail because he
has changed his mind about mar
rying thi>» girl. We must remem
ber that the lady always reserves
to herself the right to change her
mind at any moment, and it seems
to me the man ought to have the
same right,”
Good for the Judge! That de
cision is based on good sound
sense and justice. Moreover, it
proves what we suffragists have
always contended, and that Is that
equal rights for women will mean
equal rights for men. and be just
as much tc men's advantage as
they will be to women’s.
The breach of promise suit has
never been anything more or less
than blackmail disguised as senti
ment. Xo woman whose heart
was really hurt would drag her
wounds before the public for the
sake of a little money. Xo wom
an with a vestige of delicacy or
refinement in her composition
would try to force a man to mar
ry her who had tired of her and
was trying to get rid of her.
Not a Business Deal.
It is absurdity to contend that
a proposal of marriage is in the
same class with a business prop
osition, and that a man should be
held financially responsible for not
carrying out a matrimonial en
gagement as he would be for not
fulfilling a business contract. The
very essense of courtship are the
emotions of love, attraction, fasci
nation and desire that a woman
rouses in a man's breast, and
when these are gone—when he no
longer loves her, when she no
longer attracts or fascinates him
and he has ceased to want her—
her claim upon him is forfeited,
and as a matter of fact, it would
be a nice point of law to decide
whether the woman who can no
longer deliver the goods isn't the
one who has defaulted on the con
tract, and not the man.
Moreover, Cupid is no piker. He
is a dead game sport, and when
ever a man or a woman sits down
to the love game he or she must
play the limit and take the risks.
In addition, this is also to be said
—that although women generally
get a cold deal in matrimony they
hold the trump hand in courtship.
For it is the. eu 4 tom of men to
woo maids with flowers and
candy, and books and theater
tickets, and restaurant -feeds, so
that Romeo has paid his score as
DOROTHY DIX.
he went along, and even if he
balks at the altar the account still
stands in the woman’s favor.
Truly, ’tis* better to have been
wooed and jilted than never to
have been wooed at all!
In deciding that a man has a
right to change his mind about
getting married and cannot be as
sessed heavy damages for doing
so the Brooklyn Justice has done
a notable service to humanity.
The breach of promise case should
be thrown out of court and a man
not only given the privilege of
withdrawing from a matrimonial
engagement if he decides that for
any reason it would be best for
him to do >o, but he should be
backed up by public opinion in
doing it.
Thousands
of men. carried
away by the impulse of the mo-
men: or some wave of transient
sentiment, have popped the ques
tion to girls that they knew were
unfitted to be their, wives, and
rued their folly before the words
were off of their lips. Thousands
of other men have honestly
The Fall of New Orleans
By DR. T. B GREGORY
rpKE fall o1
I years a«
fall of New Orleans—51
igo—was a blow to
the Confederacy from
which it never recovered.
At the time Farragut and Por
ter were steaming triumphantly
up to the levees of the Creole
city at the mouth df the Father
of Waters McClellan was gath
ering his mighty host for the “On
to Richmond” campaign which
was to end, a little while later,
in ignominious defeat on the
banks of the James; and, guided
by the matchless genius of Lee.
the Army of Northern Virginia
was to score victory after victory
on tlie soil of the Old Dominion:
but at? New Orleans the Fed
eral* held the grand strategic
point, the key to the great river
which penetrated far into the
territory of the seceded Stales,
and divided from its eastern half
the rich cornfields of the West
and Southwest, upon which, later
on. the Confederacy was to de
pend for the bread and meat that
was to maintain its armies.
The Blockade Policy.
The policy H holding New Or
leans at all hazard, as the one su
premely vital point on the line of
defense, seems never to have cu
ffed the minds of the Confeder
ate authority >. and the oily was
surrendered without a tenth pH it
of the resist*u >- that was after
ward made at many points «*(
From first *o ast the Missis
sippi River was the key to the
miiitar> proh ■ rn with both »»de>
Which side com randed that rive:
would also command the issue of
in political as in geographical sig
nificance, the master feature of
the whole situation. That was
why Frenchman. Spaniard and
Englishman looked upon the
mighty stream with such greedy
"Louisiana Purchase,” or, if that
was impossible, to at least se
cure possession of the city of
New Orleans. The country that
held New Orleans would hold the
Mississippi River, and the coun
try that controlled the Mississippi
River would control the political
fortunes of the North American
Continent. American history,
from the treaty of Ghent straight
down to the final rounding out bf
the Republic with the successful
negotiations of the Gadsden Pur
chase, is full of diplomatic gym
nastics regarding the Mississippi
River.
In the light of all this, it will
be seen how great a victory it
was that Farragut won when he
silenced Forts St. Philio and
Jackson and steamed on to the
capture of New Orleans.
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REV. THOMAS D GREGORY;
When the first symptoms of
love® young dream do not cause
a fellow to br-.ve ,t Dog In h!s
throat, they are not real.
The under dog does not care
miA-h for the sympathy that can
not be touched for a loan.
When a man can not tarry his
good nature home he had better
drop it altogether.
young woman in a dream
g\..»n is often a r aV awakening
in the matter of a deposition.
Foek the truth, but do not ini-
a; ne that evrv man ycrti meet
s landing it to you.
ii is citen hard :n our dealings
to c urb the clamor of prejudice.
What Are the Real Wonders of the
World As It Exists To-day?
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
AM convinced,’’ says an
■ epistolary frieAd, “that
the Panama Canal is the
greatest wonder of construction
that, the world has ever known,
and I don’t see how it is ever to
be ex*?eeded. unless the United
States should carry out Mr.
Rikcr’s idea of diverting and con
trolling the Gulf Stream by
means of a gigantic jetty thrown
across the banks of Newfound
land. But I should like to Know
whether you regard such things
as a true measure of the su
periority of modern times.
Couldn’t you make a list of seven
modern wonders that would bet
ter represent the rea progress of
mankind?”
Has Been Going Forward.
If I were going to offer a list
of seven modern wonders, con
ceived in this sense, of the ap
plication of the mind to some
thing outside itself. I should wish,
first, to define the term “modern,”
and I would make it include the
three centuries that have elapsed
since the days of Galileo. The
world has never gone backward
since his time. He was the first
great experimental philosopher,
and when he dropped a ten-
pound ind a one-pound cannon
ball from the Leaning Tower of
Pisa, and proved, by occular
demonstration, that they took tlie
same time to fall to the bottom,
he overthrew forever the ancient
method of drawing blind infer
ences about tlie physical world
out of the mind, instead of using
the seizes as a test and tlie in-
te! igonee as a guide and inter
preter.
So. I should head tli£ list of
seven modern wonders with the
discovery of the Law of Gravita
tion. which Galileo began ex peri -
mentally, and New;on completed
im;, nematic«!ly.
To that law—although we do
:a»t yet know what gr.-tv’:a:ion is
universe, but many of our great
est engineering triumphs.
Second on the list, in the order
of time, might stand the invention
of the Telescope, which, as a
means of research, must also be
credited to Galileo, who worked
entirely in the modern spirit of
thought themselves In love at
the time they became* engaged to
women, but found themselves
disillusioned long before their
wedding day. Thousands of men
are so completely out of love and
disenchanted with their prospec
tive wives that they would rather
face the hangman than the
preacher on their marriage morn.
Want to Be Jilted.
These men would givu ten
years of their lives to unsay* the
words they have uttered, to take
back the promise they have given,
to be free of the women that they
know will hang like millstones
about their necks, but they lack
the courage to break their en
gagements. Many a man does
everything in his power to force
the girl to jilt him. He picks
quarrels with her. He neglects
her. Sometimes he even tries to
tell her that he doesn’t love her
any more, but the more he at
tempts to break away, the tighter
she clings, and the more she
weeps, and in the end he gives in
and lets himself be led like a
lamb to the slaughter because he
hasn’t the nerve to hurt her or
to be branded as a quitter.
Let no man think that he is do
ing a noble and heroic thing to
marry a woman after he has
ceased to love her. He is doing
her the most cruel wrong that
one human being can inflict on
another, and it would be a kinder
act if he killed her than it is to
marry her. He is sure to neglect
her. to let her see how she bores
him and what a burden she is on
him. and to break her heart with
a thousand little evidences of his
indifference.
It takes his martyrdom out on
her, and she pays every day of
her life for his having been co
erced into an unwilling marriage.
The affection of a man for his
wife cools down from the boiling
point to sub-normal even when
he’s crazy about her when they
got married, taut Heaven help the
unfortunate woman whose hus
band's love was at the zero point
on their wedding day! Believe
me. she knows what a long, cold
winter is like.
Therefore, in justice to himself
and kindness to the woman, any
• man should take advantage of his
l ight to change his mind if he de
cides that he has changed his
heart, no matter how many en
gagement rings lie has given, nor
how many vows of constancy he
has sworn. Let him duck and
run, though he were at the very
foot of the altar. It would save’
his life, and be a blessing to the
woman.
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GARRETT P. SERVISS.
using the mind as a means and
not as an end in the exploration
of the material world. By the in-
veniion of the telescope, and its
corollary. the microscope, modern
man enabled himself to penetrate,
at the same time, the mysteries of
illimitable space and the secrets
of the realm of the infinitely lit
tle.
Third, let us place the devel
opment of tiie science of Chemis
try, which has taught us so much
about the constitution of matter,
and which' .some ihink. may yet
reveal the secret of life itself. To
reveal only a small part of what
chemistry lias achieved would, in
itself, require a long article.
There is hardly any part of human
life and activity in which it doc®
not play its role. But there are
certain things that have grown
out of chemical experimentation
which are, perhaps, worthy to
stand by themselves in our list.
Among these I would put, as the
fourth wonder, Photography. Be
ginning as a means of obtaining
pictures of the human face, more
accurate in their details than the
hand could draw, photography has
now become a means of discov
ering things invisible to the eye,
both upon the earth and in the
heavens. The greatest astronom
ical discoveries of recent years
have been effected by photogra
phy. By using the X-ray, and by
selecting certain chosen waves of
light, we can picture, by photog
raphy, things hidden behind bar
riers impenetrable to ordinary
vision, and things on distant bod- •
ies in space which are veiled from
the eye by the confusing effects
of too many kinds of light.
Fifth, I would put the inven
tion of the Spectroscope, an in
strument which enables us to
analyze light and to use it a« a
means of investigating the nature
of substances and bodies, not
only upon the earth, but also in
the sky. To the spectroscope we
owe our knowledge of the consti
tution of the sun and the other
stars,
Present Inventions.
Sixth, comes the use of Elec
tricity, in telegraphy, and in the
production of light, and the trans
ference of power. These things
are so recent that everybody
knows all about them, or, at least,
knows what their nature is.
* Seventh, the establishment of
the Law of Evolution. The idea
of some such law was dimly pres
ent in the mind® of some ancient
philosophers, but, after their man
ner. they never thought of test
ing it by close observation of na
ture. Most of them used their
minds with about as much practi
cal effect as a miller would use
his mill if he merely set the
wheels turning, grinding only air
and getting nothing but air out of
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