The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-25

preached about the value of change
of scene. Any one who lives in a
quiet and attractive place has chance
to spend a satisfying vacation at home
instead of counting nervous prostra-
ton by trying to keep up with the
fashionable procession on a very small
income
An English lady, Mrs. Broadbent,
has just published book called
Winding the Baby" with a view to
reforming careless little girls from ten
to thirteen on whom the responsibility
of caring for baby brother or sister is
sometimes thrust. There are serious
chapters on taking baby OUT tbaby's
Sleep "baby's exercise" "why does
baby cry?" etc. The serious ex-mayor
of the town Of Huddersfeld, a certain
Benjamin Broadbent Esq, has writ
ten a serious preface on infant NOR
tality, but if the small girls Of Eng
land take this serious book as serious
ly as these serious minded people ex-
pect it is to be feared that there is
something seriously wrong with the
Juvenile population of Great Britain
1t is bruited abroad that John D.
Rock efeller is to finance philanthropy
whose object is the educating of moth
ers in regard to the proper care of
their babies Poor Mr.. Rockefeller!
There are troubles before him! There
isn't the mother living who doesn't
consider her system Of infant up
bringing equal If not superior to any
other system ever invented, and when
the aged millionaire or his representa-
tives begin to circulate with their note
books and criticisms-to say nothing
of their own special brand Of triple.
warranted system-they will learn
what trouble is.
The revenge Of the New York city
board of education IN Investigating al
legged charges Of lobbying and absence
| without leave by teachers who were
sent to Albany to work In favor of the
bill for increased salaries is about as
mean an exhibition Of petty spite as
was ever made public One thinks it
would be q public service If some one
would start a movement to investigate
the fair minded and chivalrous board
out Of office. For meanness and bigot-
ry this matter of the salary bill is
something to make every New Yorker
blush with shame for his town
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| Hackensack, N. j., wants to put up
new schoolhOuse in It's Fifth district,
one where the residents are largely
wealthy people. Some citizens think
the Fifth district doesn't need its new
| schoolhouse at present A meeting Of
voters was recently held to decide the
question, and twenty-one ladies from
! the wealthy and exclusive district
were induced by male members Of
their families to go and vote upon the
/ question, as the law gives them the
/ right to do The measure in favor of
the schoolhOuse was lost, but perhaps
the Hackensack ladies, finding them
selves none the worse for that lively
voting experience, will put on their
thinking caps and wonder whether it
would really be any more unfeminine
to go to the polls on election day and
drop their slip Of paper quietly In the
/ box
Now is the joyous picnic season.
when the small boy and gi3l Of the
family go happily forth at dawn of
! day with a well laden basket under the
benefcent care of the Sunday school
teacher and return late at night minus
nearly all their possessions, including
garments, unacceptable from insect
bites and loaded down with an assert
ment of what mother calls trash" but
happy as kings and queens ex-
pected to be, but never are.
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The Baroness Adelina Patti Ceder-
strom, whose silvery notes have charm
ed the civilized world for the last half
century, is fond Of birds, but, oddly
enough, this human songbird especial
/ ly dOtes on the harsh voiced parrot.
She IS said to have seventeen pet par
rots at Craig y Nos castle, her home
in Wales.
Miss Gertrude Beeks, secretary OF
the welfare department of the Civic
federation, has been appointed to go to
Panama to investigate the housing.
food and amusements of the workers
on the canal, IN regard to which there
has been some decidedly unfavorable
lcriticism. Miss Beeks recently made
lR study of the conditions of child la
Dor In the southern mills,
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/ Smith college girls are this summer
maintaining small house at Waterloo.
N. j., in which poor city children are
10 be given a week or two Of country
life. The house will be IN charge Of
Miss Jean Chandler of the class ee
'08, who will be assisted by other col
legians. NARY DALE. +