The National tribune., 1903-07-23

Indian now gets one meal Il ua!. ne Cih
produce three meals a day, if he will only
try.
The Washington Board of Health has
been much exercised of late over the I'M
precedentedly large number OF deaths
among nursing children. After searching
investigation, the authorities have decided
that the cause of many of these deaths
is impure milk. or lax methods in giving
the milk to infants. 1t is scientific tact
that bat very little milk is pure. The lac
teal fluid seems to be the natural home
and habitat of every microbe OF disease
that has ever been discovered. Among the
scarlet fever, diphtheria. smallpox, typhoid
fever, cholera infantum. Summer com
plaint, and long list of Others 1t is only
a baby that has Il cast-irOn stomach, so TO
speak, that escapes contamination from
the average bottle milk. If the milk is
fit to give the child. it is often contami-
mated by the vile tube through which 1t
gets the milk.
A good many babies that die have on
their tombstones God took her. or
him. as the case may be, when as
matter of fact there should be placed upon
the stone the words Died because my
milk" Milk that is fed to babies and
children should be taken from cows kept
in perfectly clean stables. The cows I'D
der should be washed clean, SO that no
manure can possibly fall into the milk
bucket. The milk should be Immediately
strained into vessels which have been
scalded, summed, then scalded with dash
into them. These vessels should be coy-
cred and placed in a vessel of boiling wa
ter and left there till the milk barely
reaches the boiling point. Then, tightly
corked. the milk should be put in cold
place; not in an ice box. along with meat
and butter, cold cabbage and decayins to-
matoes and cucumbers. but by itself,
where it cannot be contaminated by smells
and microbes of decay as soon as it is
opened.
Bottles out of which babies are fed will
ruin all your fine preparations it they are
not also secured inside and out and scald-
ed with boiling water A dash OF baking
soda will help TO make them sweeter.
Never use Il tube in nursing bottle Tor
anything but calf or a lamb or a puppy.
The rubber tube for nursing bottles is an
invention that ought to rank with instru-
ments Of the Inquisitorial period. 1t can
not be cleaned. and from day to day and
week to week the infinitesmal clots of milk
gather along the inside to rot and con-
taminate every drop of milk that passes
through it into the chid'S stomach. Then
the bottle half emptied is left in the crib
or bed with the child, to heat and sour
and spoil, with that nauseating tube ad-
ding its horrors of bacilli to the spelling
mass. Just take tie tube out of a bottle
of milk OH warm day after the baby has
been permitted to suck away at it during
an hours troubled sleep, and note how it
smells. The odor will make one fairly
gag, yet this stuff is fed to babies, and
then mothers WEEP and wall because God
is unkind."
The nipple that is used should be taken
off the instant the baby has enough milk
and washed in water sweetened with bak-
ing soda. 1t should then be put in a
glass of clear cold water in which is a
little baking soda. When taken from the
glass for use again it should be rinsed in
clean water. The baby that gets milk
prepared as above, from bottle carefully
cleaned. will not have Summer COM
plaint" The mother who does not look
after her baby's food just this carefully,
ought not to weep when the little thing
dies.
The foregoing conclusions are about
those reached by the Washington Board
of Health. In their very drastic report on
milk conditions in Washington, which are
about as bad as they could well be, the
Board of Health seems to think that the
hot weather should be murdered by lazy,
shiftless, careless mothers"
Treasurer Roberts was very much sur
prised last week to receive an order from
San Francisco for $1,000 in pennies and
nickels to supply the banks of that city.
In California the use of nickels and pen
nies has been practically unknown. Moth
ing is to be bought there for less than a
dime, and so the coins We're of no value.
1t is thought that the department. stores
are responsible for this sudden demand
and that they are going to go into the odd
price trade. which SO easily catches the
unwary in the East. A woman will look
the second time at an article priced at
four cents, when she has been in the habit
OF paying five for it, and anything at 80
cts. is SO much cheaper than the same ar
ticle at $1.OO. that it pays to spend two
car fares for the sake of getting it. Cal
ifornia has disdained such methods up to
now.
Over in Batangas the people are going
to name new Filipino Industrial school
after Gen. Franklin Bell. And thereby
hangs tale. Batangas was one of the
troublesome provinces. 1T. simply would
not become pacifed under the conditions
charge, decided to bring the people into
detention camps in a plan Of concentra-
ton. When he had this accomplished.
the people were in helpless condition,
and pacification followed. No.mo trouble;
has occurred there. But, oh, theS howl
that went up from the Antics! They called
Gen. Bell Weyler and most any other old
thing that was not pretty. He went on
the even tenor of his way, however. With
the advent of peace Gen. Bell turned his
entire attention to ameliorating the con-
ditien of the reconcentrados.
- - -
War Department fund and bought rice and
other food stuffs, and agricultural imple-
ments, and started a general relief plan.
If he had not had faith in the people
he could not have done this, for he was
responsible for all that money. but the
people paid it back, every cent, under q
plan established by Gen. Bell. The opera
tions of the relief plan brought lin enor-
nous sums altogether out Of proportion
to expectation, all the poor were
fed, many We're established in bust
ness, the loan from the War Department
was paid off, and there was money left.
The fund has gone on growing, and
when Gen. Bell left the island the money
was turned over to the Philippine Govern
ment. The fund is NOW SO large that the
Government has been able to appropriate
$4,000 from it to establish an industrial
school where>Filipinos may be trained in
the useful arts. 1t. is this school that the
natives now desire to call the "Gen.
Franklin Bell Industrial School," because
Gen. Franklin Bell made it possible. Has
anybedy heard of any schools in Cuba be-
ing named after Weyleri How such a sug-
gestion must make the Antics squirm!