Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-13
DELEGATES REPORT
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their organizations, they act together.
and retail dealers have their organiza-
tions where unity of purpose Is carried
out. The consumer stands alone In his
fight as an individual and not as an
army He is, therefore. always at dis
advantage But in this mothers congress
there might be a union formed of the
mistresses of households. which. by sin
gleness of purpose, unity of action and
power Of organization. could secure
better conformity to the law than any
vigilance on the part of the executors of
the law would be able to accomplish.
My plea, therefore. is. in order to secure
pure food in the household that this and
pei the manufacturers and dealers In food
stuffs to stop all adulteration. to stop all
misbranding. to stop all coloring, all de-
ception, and furnish the pure, unadul-
terated and palatable article.
What the Consumers Can Do.
Miss Alice Lakey. who spoke on What
the Consumer Can Do With Food"
charmed her audience with her common
sense talk. more particularly directed at
disease breeding filth in milk. Miss
Lakey showed at the end of her talk a
number of large photographs illustrating
the vile stables in which dairy cows are
kept; others showing tubercular cows.
and few that are considered really sam
itary.
One picture. Miss Lakey stated, was that
of dairy stable within fifteen minutes
walk from the White House. The picture
showed unspeakable conditions.
Under the symposium on the "Heredity
of the Child" Louise Pirington, MD, of
Boston was to have presented a paper
dealing with this phase of child develop
ment. but was unable to be present In
her stead, Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis read
few extracts from DR.. Pirington's
writings. in which it was stated that
heredity. while strong, might be over
come in some degree by careful study
OF conditions and the application of
common sense in training.
Health in DruRsp
Mrs. Martha M. Allen. superintendent
of the department of medical temperance
for the Worlds and National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, gave an
address on the subject. Can Health be
Bought at the Drug Store?" Mrs. Allen
said, in part:
There is no more popular subject with
mothers than that of how to preserve
their own health and that of their chill
drel. But few of them know the secret
OF right living which insures health. The
mass OF the people seem to believe that
health is sold by the bottle at the drug
store. and that to keep well, or to re-
gain lost strength. 1t is necessary to con-
sumo pills. powders, tablets and various
connections of alcohol favored with drugs
sold under fanciful names. Much OF this
erroneous and mischievous belief is due
to the false but alluring advertising of
proprietary medicines set diligently be-
fore the reading public, but part of
1t is undoubtedly the result of the teach
ing and example of large section of the
medical profession. which found it easier
to prescribe pills and potions than to
use hygienic methods in treating disc ase
Leaders in the medical profession are
now thoroughly aroused to the heed of
a radical change in the teaching and
pre f medicine and some Of them
common belief in drugs as remedial
agents. Sir Frederick Treves. surgeon
to King Edward. and DR.. Nicholas Sem
vent disease Is the great task to which
must apply themselves. DR.
Sem added: We have learned by long
weapons in fighting disease are not drugs
No Drugs for Consumption.
Some of the most successful physicians
now give no drugs in consumption. in
pneumonia, in typhoid fever or rheuma-
tism. One eminent New York physician
says he has reduced his death rate in
and relying upon hygienic treatment.
IF the most successful physicians have
better results without drugs, mothers
would be wise to initiate their example
in such simple cases of illness a cali for
home care. Multitudes of mothers have
done their children lasting injury by CIV
ing them morphine soothing syrups and
cough sErups, whisky sings. rock and
rye and coca wines and headache pow
ders and various other drug preparations
oh, ar
turbances, and sometimes to death.
1T is hard to convince people that most
Of the proprietary medicines largely adj
vertised are useless, and, In many cases,
harmful This is because they feel better
for time after taking dose. They do
not understand that the improved feel
ing is due to the benumbing action OF the
alcohol. or morphine, or cocaine, or choral.
or whatever drug Is used: nor do they
know that if they have any disease this
benumbing action is only hiding the symp-
toms; it has no curative effect.
Evening Program.
The program for this evening is as fol-
lows: Tonight will include long list
Of speakers. who will have for their sub
ject the general welfare of the child.
Among the speakers will be Miss Jane
Brownlee. Toledo. Ohio; Rev. 8. Woodrow.
Mrs. Edwin c. Grice, chairman national
parent-teacher committee. presiding;
Mrs. Henry A. True. Colorado: Mrs.
Charles H. keyes. Connecticut; Mrs.
James " Van Sickles. Maryland; Mrs.
o. T. Bright. Illinois: Mrs. Fannie Fern
Andrews, Massachusetts; 4Ars, A. E.
Dodd. New Jersey: Mrs. David o. Mears.
New York: Martin G. Brumbaugh. Ph.D.,
superintendent of schools, Philadelphia;
Miss Mary E. Ledyard, kindergarten SUI
pervisor Los Angeles Public Schools.
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