The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-26
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the mothers own homes. No matter how many children belong to the wo. man who must earn money to feed and clothe them, She has the consolation oi knowing that in the day nursery they will be kept immediately clean ana comfortable, will be well fed and snei- ltered from all harm. What is or im- mense importance Tn the beginning or l life, the infants hear only speech In quiet, gentle tones. Clean and light, warm in winter and cool in summer are the quarters where l the babes are cared for In the daylight hours. Sometimes they are brought as early as in the morning and Iett uh- | til as late at night No discrimination l of race or religion is made. shiny faced black pickaninny kicks It's merry legs in the next crib to fiaxen haired Scandinavian, the Russian baby plays l in tho toy room with the infant He brew. As in the apostles delineation of the true church, there Is here neither Greek nor Jew, male nor Female, but all are as one in Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaws five nurseries in the city Of Boston. She foots the bills for them all.
 Who kows but this b snevolent wo- mans plan, like her kindergarten scheme, will at length be a part or ev-
 cry city's municipal economy? The care of the day nursery of a family of three or four young children leaves a work ing woman free to go out to day labor in factory or private house and earn enough to feed, clothe and house her little ones Women of the poorer classes are thus encouraged to help themselves, and there is frightening of expense to the public charity fund.
 But Mrs. Shaw's good work for the babies does not end with the creeches she established for them. The plan of child culture she has thought out is-- first the day nursery. then the kinder garten. then the public school educa- ton, necessary part of which is man. ual and industrial training.
 This noble woman citizen Is herself pioneer Tn promoting manual training among school children. One Of her Boston enterprises is the North Ben nett Street Industrial School, where some 1900 pupils are taught the use of their hands. She also introduced the so called .sloyd'' training into the Bos- ton public schools.
 Agassiz's daughter extended the in- finitely broad white wings of her char ity over the mothers of the babes in the nurseries as well. For the women she started clubs in the houses where the day nurseries are.
 Another noble example of the rich
 
 is better still, her time and thought to the helping of the children of poverty Is Mrs Elsie Cfews Parsons, the daugh- ter Of Banker Henry Clsws.
 Mrs Elsie Clews Parsons declares in so many words that the economic de- pendency of a wife on her husband Is demoralizing to both husband and wife. When a wife is obliged to ask her hus-
 band even for car fare and tell him
 what she is going to do with each dime he gives her there are sown the poison seeds of matrimonial unhappiness and divorce.
 Further, this bankers daughter, who
 has stepped out of the class of mere
 fashionable women to use her brains and think what is for the good of her
 poorer brothers and sisters, faments for the awful waste of life among the ba- bies or noverty. She instances families in whicft~ten to fifteen children have been born and perhaps only one has survived infancy. These deaths among the babes of the poverty stricken are so common that even their mothers be- come callous and ratns ar indifferent.
 Neglect and ignorance of how to take care of infants are the cause of what in its result Actually amounts to child murder. TO at least partially check the frightfuI slaughter of the innocents Mrs. Parsons recommends the general establishment of day nurseries conduct ed on scientific principles and of pri- mary school restaurants, also scientif- icaIiy conducted. Above all, she would have a regularly salaried nurse attach ed to each public school.
 Charlotte Van Beck.