The sun., 1903-10-20
CHECK YOUR BABY AT ZION.
But Only Healthy Infants Arc Accepted
Poor Opinion Of New YOrk's.

But Only Healthy Infants Arc Accepted
Poor Opinion Of New York's.
Check the baby. Check the baby.
Nom. you can't take the baby into meet
ing. Two flights up and turn to your
right-that's tie check ROOM
The guard at tho door OF Madison Square
Garden told this to forty-three mothers
day. Checking the babies u not .
new incident in the lives of Zion women.
They are used to it, and so are the babies
AL day long yesterday while the Restors-
ton Host was out on the streets Of wicked
New York crying APeacel' to strangers.
the babies OF the host were giving the ten
Zion nurses about all they could do to
MAINTAIN peace in the baby check room.
A typical umbrella and cane check system
il used. At the matron's desk there is q
huge pincushion containing tags with
safety pin adjustments and coupon slips.
When a baby is lett in the check room
the pin and tag are attached to Its slip and
the mother gets the corresponding coupon.
A healthy. happy. well lunged lot OF babies
they are.
why. do you see that little one?' asked
the matron. That baby is the youngest
.
mother is here She's out making vista
tions to-day.
Who's taking care OF the baby7 Why,
what do you suppose we are here for7
No, we don't have wet nurses. We don't
believe In that. We use bottles and con-
baby got up ten days after it was born
and went about doing her housework.
yes; I am a Zion m other. Ihave FIVE
Never had a drop Of medicine in my life,
are always we'll
One little chap: whose name is John
Alexander Dowie Ebanks, began to cough
In spasms. -Oi he Just Las little spell
Of whooping cough says the matron.
sThat does not amount to much. He got
that in tllis wicked city.
.No, we don't have any special manner
Of dress for our babies, except We don't
bind our babies as you people do. And
we leave Their little feet bare Whenever we
can. It's healthy. No, We don't believe
In long dresses after the baby is three
months old
"What do I think Of New York babiesi
Why,they are the poorest, wea zenest looking
little scrub babies ever saw I thought
no babies could be worse than CAica 10
bsbies-but then hadn't been In New York.
Zone woman came l.ere this morning to
leave her baby. She wasn't a member of
Zion. And such a baby Did we take ity
Why, ! should say We didn't. We don't
have anything but healthy babies in Zion.
We would not take that baby. The mother
smslt Of beer she probably never would
have come back for the baby. We are not
going TO have any outside babies palmed
on on us. We love babies. but we nave
Our own.
'The baby might become another mem
ber Of Zion9 Well, those are not the kind
of members we are looking for. We want
members who know what they are doing
We cant take all the cast on children In
New York. Why, Overseer Mason was
told that there have been 1900 castaway
babies IN New York during the last ten
years. such a wicked, wicked place."
Another John Alexander Dowie, whose
final name In Jones began to pull at tho
bottle Of Jane Elkins, another checked
baby. Immediately there was a miniature
imitation Of Eli Jah III expressing his opinion
Of his critics. John Alexander Dowie
Jones' pulled and screamed and tore and
listed; bu' Jane Elkins was game, and would
not surrender The nurses went to tho
rescue, and at last view Jane had the bottle.
The nurses wear "a neat cadet blue uni
form with coquettish little beribb0ned
cars on their hair. which IL usually arranged
according 10 the mode OF Ethel barrymore,
low on nIs neck with a soft pomr adour
There is no fee for keeping the babies but
the mothers must supply their food.