The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28
CONSUME PTION,
 AMONG THE JEWS S Less Common Than Among
 the GentiIes SOME OF THE REASONS Domestic Servants WlI1 Have Union of Their Own In London-Queen of
 Spain Will Pay Welt to
 Homo In England.
By HERBERT TEMPLE,

London, November N.6Special. .)-How
 is 1t that there Is less consumption among
 the Jews than among the Gentiles? The
 Hospital discusses the question this week
 in an interesting article.
 Habits of life among the Jews" 1t
 says. supply many important factors
 tending toward racial survival. They
 marry young and their families are large.
 an essential item allowing a good margin
 for casualties.
 "But tho casualties, which decimate
 each generation of our own people dur
 ing the years of infancy find no parallel
 in the history of Jewish family, be it
 ever so poor. Nor is the reason far to
 seek.
 Tt is rarity to meet Jewish mother
 of the working class who does not feed pher baby at the breast, while among our
 own people of similar status the practice i is becoming daily less universal. Tt Is impossible to disguise the un-
 pleasant fact that our lower working
 class mothers are ceasing to suckle their
 infants. not from lack of capacity to do
 so, nor from want of maternal instinct,
 but because they are too often the bread winners of the family at a period when their whole attention ought to be devoted The habitual temperance of the Jews is also mentioned as a favorable influence. At last domestic servants are within measurable distance of having a union of their own.
 ''The idea of forming a Domestic Scr
 wants union," said Miss Kathlyn Oliver. who is acting secretary to the move- ment 'is meeting with very encourag-
 ing support.
 'In the north particularly the sugges- ton has been hailed with enthusiasm and hope capable committee of workers will be formed.
 1 "The need of some such organization 1 for domestic servants cannot be denied. Too many of them are overworked. un- derpaid and badly kept. They are not treated on the same plane as others, and | their occupation Is not treated with tho respect that 1t should command. we shall in fact try to educate ser wants to & proper sense of their impor- tance, and endeavor to raise the standard of domestic work to the level of other industries.
 i Another aim will be to agitate for leg islation to compel employers to provide proper and healthy accommodation for servants, and for reasonable hours of rest and labor.
 We shall also start a servants regis try office, and 'out-of-work pay will bs
 another problem the union will grapple I with. l "All masters and mistresses arc. hap oily not unreasonable, and some servants i enjoy comfortable situations, where they ! are allowed fair amount of time to 1 themselves for rest and recreation. There Is all the greater need for them to join l such a union and help those who are not so well off,
 Arrangements have been made for the Queen of Spain and her children to pay a visit to England at an early date The Queen will travel in strict incog- nito. and with her children will proceed | to the Isle of Wight.
 The Queen has sent 43 articles to the exhibition at Coxisbrool castle today of | the Royal Isle of Wight Needlework pujld. of which her mother is the presi- dent. Many of them are knitted gar ments and the Queens own handiwork