New-York tribune., 1906-08-20
Of Interest ~
- to Women.
JUNIOR SEA BREEZE.
Crozcds Gather at Baby Demonstra-
tiOns EUery Ddy.

Every Tuesday and Friday afternoon az Junior
Sea Breeze. the Rockefeller summer camp LoL sSN
babies, they give baby demonstration AOf 'iiS
benefit OF the tenement house mothers. There ls no
going into scientific minutia the uItra-reine-
ments of a hospital word. Everything Is as simple
and as simply said the doctor and nurses can
make IL.
In one OF the wooden shacks on the high hlur
overlooking the East River at 6ith street some
times as many as fifty mothers and nve hundred
children gather on these afternoons
A disinterested observer might say that there
were many more interesting things In TINS WORLD
than watching a nurse in a blue singham gown
cleanse a baby's feeding bottle. All. but then' a
mother isn't disinterested observer. Why. even
the little fathers and little mothers. whose interest
in babies might be supposed 70 be reluctant ana
assumed temporarily only in times OF domestle
stress-even they find these demonstrations mighty
interesting. as is shown by the fve-deep border
OF them which hangs peTsstently 20 the railing az
long as there the least thing 70 be seen or heard
Room there for the babyV
Out from one of the hospital shscks white etlo
is rolled. with two very bright brown eyes peep1ns
out Of it from under thatoA OF curly brown hair.
"Oh. amt he darIin'i" cry the mothers.
Look at her-aint she too cute TO i've!
And all the mothers and little mothers ana little
fathers beam down on the baby Irene. who now
smiles as sweety out Of her blue klmono as L Ss
"AnS now saws Niirse Baldwin I am going 20
show you how 70 undTess a DaDy' anu tneM SA.GL.
give IL bath and dress IL again. That viii be tns
nas an blue Up RS 6n Bcsh she tsi S6
how to undress an infant Always SUP Us ct3;sS aS;
noS of eyer its feet @ . y ENJOYS baby to nave 's
lrene's mother. not uHpTetty s3hemian % sscona IN
small frame as the latter IS rapidly divested OF her
Taiment then covered with spotless blanket
Her next door neighbOr, pale slip OF irish sr+
neck neck When the bath 6egn-Segns at irenes rose
bud Of mouth. which is caLeIully s"aeoec . s Ous
with totOhpick wrapped in absorbent cotton ana
dipped in solution OF boracic acid -,
the tongue ana gums and guard against sprue.
Next come the face and mead. Be very caEesgl
with the ears. and after you have DRIED them VIA
Je towel A use ysn sS sSIS for 20 EACH ear NOW
the eyes Use a different swab for each eye, too.
TO prevent the carrying Of contag1on ana Z you
Rerchs RerS RG cotton U'' DTS OF Clean 0lo '0'As'
while the nurse is testing the water in tRs %oIrtB little
the house physician puts the mothers through a
OF the new born baby and the dangers OF tFachOma;
A towel is folded n the bottom OF the tub, and
Stirring her audience 70 fresh InSrIntEs Of 'Ai3:t
WashcIotS. and before the mothers are on 70 IL
she is back again on her pad, blinking and moist.
90 to g asgTsss Is the DFoDsE temperature
Have the tub nearly half full Don't be afraid 20
cut your baby's finger nails-Or toe nails either.
her dressing gown by now, ana after being uDlifted
like. is put back to bed and rolled away to her
up Of representatives of half modern Europe, dis
perses. The ample Italian women. who have
aebRsT the a nG go
their homes resolved 20 initiate as nearly as pos
sible what they have just seen. When the dem
the sterilizing OF milk. etc, all done with ordinary
inspiration is, if anything, more direct
In the background. seeking a chance for word
with the superintendent, hOvers an eager eyed
mother whose shirtwaist has broken out into
violent eruption Of purple polka dots
Doctor, she talterS, If my Johnny should
should die'-she gulpg down sob-''YOu wouldn't
bury him before I could see him, would your
More and more Junior Sea Breeze Is becoming
a social centre. The baby demonstrations only
q fraction Of the work carried on there. Besides
the healing Of sick babies there is shack where
babies are cared for by the day. Hundreds OF
mothers and children spend the day the
grounds. and parties are now coming UP from the
Nurses Settlement and St. Georges Church a
kindergarten and q visitor who follows the dis
charged babies to their homes and tries to get
the mothers TO maintain there something OF the
conditions that at Junior Sea Breeze have brought
their babies back 20 health also adjuncts Of
this lovely philanthropy. Junior Sea Breeze closes
September 10 but so successful has the work been
that it will be Teopened next year. The grounds.
so rough and unkempt. will be graded and
perhaps. the present staff of twenty-seven en-
larged The sixty beds are full all the time Only
one baby has been deserted since Junior Sea Breeze
opened How many little lives have been spared
directly and indirectly because Of it no one can tell