Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-30

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q great Paris shirt factory. Young wom-
en- were coming and going in numbers. 1t
was early Of a Saturday morning, at the
hour of engaging hands.
Monsieur. l want work."
Have you a baby"
''Ye-es. monsieur"
"All right. Come Monday morning.
Bring the baby"
would scarcely nave believed 1t II i
had not heard it. This was Paris in the
year 1907. How long ago was it when the
charge OF an infant injured a woman's
chances of employment? Certainly 1t was
only yesterday nat unincumbered girls
had preference. Now girl-mothers, even,
go before them!
Later. | saw them bringing their babies
the selected hands. selected because they
are giving population to %depopulating
France. They brought them to the fac
tory's nursery.
There were 40 babies. from 3 years Ia
Jew among the oldest) down to 3 weeks.
Tia: was three weeks ago. Certainly there
are some new ones; because this extra
orl,Eary Paris shirt factory's nursery has
three sunny bedrooms In which mothers
can stay with their babies of one day old.
a capable young doctor is employed by
the ye-r to spend half his time in tina
nursery. Ten nurse maids manag to do
all the Notwithstanding every baby's daily
baih-w.th the help of the mothers, who
have the right to slip in four times a day,
ten minutes each.
What does the factory give these
babies:' | asked the young doctor.
'SteriliZed. Neutrality-suspicious. milk and
libitum. when their mothers cannot feed
them; all their baby-clothing: baths;
hyg enic surroundings: warmth: safety.
pure air, the only things a baby needs!
Apart from this. the proprietors of this
factory wish to favor the mothers"
Young Mothers Secreteiy Favored.
Howl" 1 asked.
Secretly. i have known them to re-
ceive winter Jackets as gifts. l have seen
the coal supply attended to. Especially
their landlord is indoctrinated with pa
.r.otic principles of favoring repopulation.
The girl wife Is the states creditor. In
stead of being Disseminated against, she
should be aided"
that rich and powerful society, the
Societe de Charlie Mateinelle. first OF its
Kind to help young mothers. and founded
as carly as 1884, acts on the principle OF
rendering girl mothers pecuniarily attract
We. Its unceasing influence is exercised
Tally liz every ward of Paris.
What astonished me most was to learn
hat this shirt factory is by no means
alone AMONG its kind to go to great
ensths in the favorins of young mothers.
There are no statistics" said the doc
nor. ut is all private effort; and it may
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anybody chooses. BY this means one gets
devoted, faithful employees who will not
,trile, who will not scamp their work or
poll machines from spite. Personally /
Know of three other large factories rum
hing nurseries just like ours: and from the
lumber of Important looking business men
Who have recently inspected our system
judge the movement to be rapidly eX-
lending from a mixture of motives-in
which dread of French depopulation and n
growing sense of civic justice have a
arge place. You will see. the Plot law
will be passed one of these days-and the
French state will pay cash for babies"
The Anti D%epopuIation Bill.
Senator Edme Plot is Il remarkable man.
SON of Il Burgundian family go poor tina
he had to be kept from school to work in
he fields. he broke stone on the highways
md shoveled dirt in many parls of France
,s a COMMON laborer. But as early as 1S!
he was beginning to take small obs on
his own account: and in the end he be-
lame the greatest of French railroad con-
FACTORS.
Becoming very rich. he has made him
el famous since 1876 by a special kind of
lberality extending over all the golden
lopc of Burgundy-the giving out. yearly
Il great quantities of savings bank books
70 school children.
Since 1891. when he was elected senator
ie has given himself to defending the
gorking classroom which he springs and
shose needs and v,r;.::;r he knows. Above
III. he would favor poor parents of chill