Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-26

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business and pleasure has been arranged
by the educational department Of the
Young Women's Christian association in a
class for teaching business arithmet 1t is
to open Monday, January 10, and will in
clude work in simple forms OF addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division;
fractions, common and decimal, as they
occur in ordinary business transactions be-
tween clerk and customer. Especial drill
will be given in the mental work necessary
In office and store. numbers,
special measurements ard values will be
taught with special adoption to their use
in Wholesale, real estate and land offices;
also percentage, business forms used in
banking, postoffice, money, orders, loan Of
fices, etc. The aim of the class will be to
get a grasp Of practical arithmetic.
Shorthand will also be taught in another
class, and several other branches of prac-
tical business preparation essential to
every woman in the business world. Women
desiring to enter these classes may get
all Information at the office Of the associ-
alton. The arithmetic class will meet at
1880 Monday evening and the tuition for the
term of twenty lessons will be 81.
May the blessed Christmastide bring to
! you every ueBlT6 VI yOuI HSdIlt dlu the
glad new year give to you each day the
Joy Of service (and there is no greater joy)
in our loved white ribbon sisterhood." One
thousand copies of the above Christmas
greeting were mailed to the Women's
Christian Temperance union of Nebraska
from the state president, Mrs. Frances B.
Head. In addition to this greeting the
card bears on the reverse side the temper
ance map of Nebraska, and the motto,
wen make the map all white" And
then there Is some data regarding the
wet" and dry counties of the state, the
dry counties being white on the map and
the others black.
Palette and Brush, a magazine for art
students and crafts workers, shows pic
lures of some especially attractive needle
work and other work done by the art
classes Of the New York Young Women's
Christian association. Some OF the most
attractive exhibits in the recent arts and
crafts display in New York were furnished
by these young women, their work COM
pairing well with that from some of the
foremost art schools of the country.
"A most important right that the Amerl-
can baby should possess is that of having
a proper legal record made OF his or her
birth. The baby cannot attend to this
duty personally and, in fact, may not ex-
press very much interest In 1t, but Il
should be the care of the loving parents
and friends, and il is in many cases the
legal duty. of the physician or midwife who
helps to usher the child into the world,
to see that the birth is properly regis
tered.
Unfortunately, in many states there are
no laws at all for this purpose, or. per
haps, worse yet, they are laws that cannot
be reasonably expected to secure COM
plete records of births. Even In states
where laws exist that II efficiently ad-
ministered should secure the registration
of all births, the duty of registration Is
very frequently neglected by the physi-
clan or midwife, and the law Furnishing
such delinquency is not enforced by the
local or state authorities. The result is
that probably not neutrality-suspicious. no
one-thlrd-of the babies born each year in
the United States are registered at all,
The failure TO make such legal records
may be very annoying and Notifying In
future years. and may perhaps entail d.
rect loss OF money or privilege to the child
toward whom this important duty was
neglected"
The above editorial by Greasy L. Wilbur
NJ. D., in the American Baby for Janu-
airy, will find approval with clubwomen
For several years scores of clubs and
many OF the state federation have given
their efforts 10 securing better and uni
form laws governing the registration OF
births and marriages.