The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25

women Jour little ones) are slowly starved from
lack of nourishment, and when suffering from
the pangs of actual hunger they are quoted
with doses of injurious narcotics. 1t is a con-
slant wonder to me that mothers do not
rise in our just wrath and by our united efforts
end such wholesale suffering and death.
You are doubtless familiar with the work of
Nathan Strauss in supplying pure milk to q
limited number in New York City, as his arti-
Gle. How the New York Death Rate Was Re-
duced," in the Forum of last November, at
| tracted wide attention. In it he says: 'If
milk gave the same outward appearance of de-
composition or fermentation as is shown by
vegetables, fish or meat more than three
quarters of all the milk sold would be con-
demned as unfit for human food. If its pollu-
ton could be perceived 1t would be loathed,
and If the disease germs could be as plainly
seen as a pesthouse the death-dealing milk
would be as soon dreaded and stunned. L
hold that in the near future it will be regarded
as piece of criminal neglect to feed young
children on milk that has not been steriliZed."
After milk our meat supply most needs con-
slant attention. The so-called "slink veaP'-
meat of an unborn calf or one born dead, and
veal under four weeks old-is daily offered
for sale, though known to be injurious. Still
worse is the sale OF meat from animals affected
with tuberculosis, anthrax, trichinosis and
other diseases.
When we fully awake to the knowledge that
our loved ones are endangered, that they have
asked of us bread and we have given them q
stone, then, and not till then. will we arouse
ourselves, shake of this deadly, this criminal
Indifference, and rest not until we have found
and applied the remedy.
That this is womans mission who can doubt?
Into her care has been given the home, with its
beautiful, wonderful possibilities for good, and
though heretofore her hands have been too
weak, too unframed, too unskillful to uphold
it as she should, the day is not far distant When
she will be found equal to her high duty. To
expect from a mere housekeeper and cook, such
as woman has been, any adequate conception
of the vast Importance of feeding the world or
the knowledge requisite for doing it Alright
would be abject folly.
Strange that this assertion should need max
ing. Stranger still that it should need defend
ing, and yet we find many to whom the higher
education of woman means the wholly unfit
ting her for home life.
But despite these unbelievers-and they are
not few-the widened intellectual horizon
has been gained by most women.
When to this is added the important technical
training, which will better ft her for her high
work, and the power which rightly goes with
grave responsibilities, then will be ushered in
the newborn day.
Ny little five-year-old says, "God pushes on
to-day to make tomorrow" Can we not do
likewise? Let us help on the good things. The
morning already dawneth; the noontide is
bound to come.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson supported the
instances given by Mrs. Miller with a story
Of the shipment of some young calves.
of there is one thing on earth, she said,