New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-23

aio1e q good deal. ana often the IRE VIII out.
wonder they have pneumonia 50 much. I know
/ times. One night last winter she added Il had
onree oa2ieS at fhs turning point N the diseass-
| ST. another was the child Of some Germans living
You can fancy how I scur-ied from TO
"A great nsed-HteraHy a crying need-cf the
East Side is more day nurseries, and tn some
exist Nevertheless. I hrmy believe the true way
% help the babies IS TO improve conditions in their
homes. to get at their mothers. teach them how
70 cook. how 70 keep clean. how TO care for their
babies. In most cases they are very willing t.
learn and even where they seem at first h0pelessly
indifferent there may be some germ of love or pride
know she interrupted herself apoIogetcaIIy. eir
honestly it's quite true Last March / was called
to a pneumonia baby on Nlnth-st- The room the
who IistessIy holding the child said the chin
49, 80
woman TO open the windows and Ter Tire smoke out.
to the inner room. Well that room-you never saw
sicIa . asS' OF alth N you5 ne ne SLleA W
dirty woman. you ought 70 be ashamed Of your
wonder he drank Veil ran1e bo-l5e and GOT To-
scrubbtng brushes. food for sUpper-and went
back 70 make that den decent. At first the woman
went 70 work too II you'll believe IL We wrought
came home he looked in. and then went climbing
He ate the supper we cooked for him in speechsss
wonder That was in March. and to-day thar
ing how 70 keep her baby wen and her husband.
stays with his wife and baby. on OF course I've
have been easier 10 bring the baby here 20 the
taken home every night to the filthy place frsT
found it in the nursery wouldn't have helped II
Jeachable but It's always worth trying
DEVOTION OF JEWISH MOTHERS
OF all the babies Of al the nationalities that
crowd the East Side the Hebrew babies suffer least
from the evil conditions there The Jewish woman
is capable OF marvellous devotion TO her child. and
the Jewish viii ROT let his wife 90
work unless there is absolute necessity for IT,
She stays at home and takes care OF her baby
nursing II at breast until it Is big child This
is partly 10 avoid buying food for the extra mouth
but as mothers are generally strong-at least those
who are foreign born-they often have good milk
and the babe grows fat II is a habby fat. and
the infants are allowed drink tea and coffee
before they can speak they lose their pIumpness
early. and grow thin and nervous; but the Tiddish
baby nursing whenever Z chooses, never burdened
with many clothes, petted by father and mother
and big brothers and sisters. is not an unhappy
specimen And II il chances 10 be a boy II IS
7,r+ocrat from its birth. Settlement worker tells
story - .. 2H ~ fInboid A fever We
pad tIltcA - 49, 80 80 said and Of course
h. h0Vled Mamma YanOwsky and The four Miss
longing to tear my hair out but not quite daring
Then Papa YanOwsky came in He looked az ms
son. a the basin and sponge and then az ne Sc
verely. wants il not, he wants II not,-he told
Iporged- Then tried TO give him some medicine
and he struck it out Of my hand and spilled y al
I1lrrt3,rsd n70ndlv Well gave up the case in de
spar: but. OF course Aaron got well They're so
awfulIy wiry those children
The blind. instructive devotion Of some OF these
Jewish mothers 70 their ba bes il almost Ike the
devotion of certain animals 70 their young Nurses
ten OF women who had SAT- W night after nlgh,
with sick child. until they fairly staggered dazed
with fatigue. II made no difference 70 them ina.
te amer 5 n 5t+- FOR Tire babe il they saved
~E.v " r-arv hat
Sll al ne older cHiIdren are almost as de-
,-1+e1 - ~ ba5v ~ the farliIv A very common
instance is this one of the rweve-year-old brother
Of ths nurses step on the stair he would 60 %
;ovs OF he aut because she had come 10 help
his baby Then he would MI the icebag help pre-
pare the milk and stand by intelligenty 70 trans
late what the nurse said 70 the mother, VINO SPOKE
fteT sonle DAYS said the nurse Rachel de,
veIoped abscess on the leg and had 20 sen
iTIlr store hers telephoned to the hospitaL and
when ne arrange I T.eIs W. -11t mae r9tet ana
nodded 70 show that he understood; and then sue
a 95ca ne KS awfIily Ioaoh1g-the boys ses
control The imys s F1r-e aarA race anu
THE RENTS THE THING.
II has been said that the Yiddish baby Is gen
eraHv fairly vel nourisred but, Of course there
are exceptions. There is plenty Of ptnchtng PoV-
e~tv down there where Tire little Racheis and
Abrahams live. \ C1rau5-st doctor tells OF one
nursing baby whom he found 10 BE- practically
starving. the Tother had little and such poor
/ food TO eat that her milk was fairly blue
, II told her he said, that she must eat better
food or hsr baby would die. She spread her hands
out with that hopeless racial gesture OF theirs
+ Vat can do@' she asked Ven de rent ISIS PAID.
deere iss holdings left buy food Ich kann NIGHT e.
heIfen she added. reIapsing into her native Ger
man-TiGdish. The rent-Jhe reut-that - the CTS
on The East Side, thar is what takes food cut or
the chIldreus mouths and whatever MY Ce SALE
about the rent war being on. the rents IeEl..il
sns,mefly high This family. Tor instance Lsl-
in Two dark rooms on Water-s1s no th45o en- ems
dIthy heaps Of refuse IN the yard pay 81 a Tnonth.
originally il was S. The wife tod me mat ner
man worked lei shirts pu- Ne didL e.-ln L..S-l
more than enough 20 Pay the rent Sld laers ~ -
I only one daughter old eno-Sa 10 WoEA anu 'N9
IN 6a.Fkd e I5e' said 10 an sym OF
+ home And they have good reason one Settle
I mother having died. TO a well known institution
for the care OF orphaned babies Il was "a bottle
was sent away, and found the little creature
which when sent there vas Iat ana 10Y 10y
Either il aid not receive the right Kind OF food or
aulonr many babies it was neglected. anyway,
another baby this worker knows OF was kept ar
home after its mother He'd because the father
ana an the bie sister twelve wears Old utterly
refused 20 give II UP. though body said she
{ could never manage. But Leah keeps house. foot
- - yaa~s 80 raEas -1ra ~ rha ia nv and s.
far thew hourishiHg said the nurse though
the baby is bouncing boy with a piercing yell
him later But better that than an asylum
feriTg Tor s,ast Side rabies. is nevertheless
boom because IN summer they need not be herded
IN the tenements, tney can oe upon tne slreeIs-
A poor enough refuge The streets are. bur the
that II has than Settlement nurse
away with the seeds OF tuberculosis or decline in
her tney tLlole LOU ~ - -
saloons: they often and hear things childish
800 ,,1sI71a ar +be1, ayi1 certainly, bTIt yvith
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