Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-08

| fidently expect to surpass the twenty per
cent reduction in the infant mortality rec
ord scored during July and August last.
year.
| The campaign is in charge Of the Divis-
ion Of Child Hygiene. whose head is Dr.
| 5. ]. Baker, and the office looks like the
staff tent of an army on maneuvers-
maps tagged to represent every death last
summer, maps by districts for the nurses.
and ward maps. Charts of all kinds are
ready, on which each move is planned
There are daily reports and weekly esti-
mates, which the doctors in charge follow
as closely as a broker does the fluctuations
| Of the stock market.
Besides the house-visiting there will be
Institutional work in nearly 200 centers
These are recreation piers, centers. play
grounds, and in many cases charitable or
ganzations equip their officers with the
necessary apparatus for the baby-cllnic
and offer their use. In these various CEN
tiers, at stated times, a doctor and nurse
hold mothers meetings, bathing, feeding
and weighing the children brought there
to illustrate the methods taught. Accord
ing to DR.. Baker, 1t is not the immigrant
mother who needs Instructions half as fire.
quently as the American tenement-born
daughter, who has left school at fourteen
to become an office girl, and, who, when
she marries, knows nothing Of home-keep-
ing
10 meet this situation lectures are being
given TO girls in the last two years. and
! little mothers leagues" are being formed
rapidly. There will be not less than twenty
| in Manhattan alone, formed this summer
according to the returns now coming in
In the Bronx, 50 prize has been offered
to the girl who writes the best essay on
the lecture TO be given there The BOYS
! then protested that they didn't want to
be left out so another doctor is to talk
to them and they will compete for a prize
! on that subject.
A circus feat by Oscar Moll, a machinist
employed by a motor car company, with a
garage at Broad and Green streets, stopped
a runaway and averted possible injury to
children playing on the streets and to Fred
Lister the son of caterer, on Longshore
street, who was in the wagon.
Mol was driving an automobile out Tor
resdale avenue in demonstrating it to a
prospective customer, when young Lister
sped by in tho wagon, calling for aid
Speeding his machine ahead OF the runa-
way, Mol fearlessly swung himself upon
it, climbed over the top and down to the
seat, and recovered the tangled lines by
reaching down among the flying hoofs
The boy was badly frightened, Moll who
Is Il years old, and lives on Arch street
4 near Sixteenth, received an ovation from
passersby who witnessed his act of daring
| strange looking man did all kinds of
stunts in the footpath of the WILLIAMSBURG
bridge on the Brooklyn side. He assembled
sruers' crawled along the iron pillars and
when policemen went after him he PLAYED
hide-and-seek and managed to get away.
Nothing was seen of him for a couple of
hours. Then he showed UP at the Eastern
District hospital, where the violent ring
ing or the electric bell brought the night
attendants. When the door was opened a
man rushed in and begged to be protected
from the devil, who he said had pursued
him relentlessly and was determined to get
him In his clutches.
The man, who proved to be Joseph Eigle
a cooper 235 Kent avenue became very
violent and it took several men to hold
him down while medical treatment was adj
mlnistered.
Louis Katz, IA Forsyth street a.
year-old boy, who was arrested with an
older boy for attempting to pick pockets
was in Children's court charged with be-
ing wayward. He told Judge Hoyt that
his father had driven him from home and
that when he met the other boy and was
told how he could get a meal easily. he
went out picking pockets.
do you know how?" asked Justice
Hoyt."
Sure 1 do"
Justice Hoyt. who had some friends sit
ting with him, asked the boy to step back
Of the bench.
How do you work fob pockets, vest
pockets and upper coat pockets?" asked
the justice.
The boy folded his arms, edged nm
against one of the Justices friends and
smoothly plucked out violet handkerchief
And how do you work a hip pocket or a
side coat pocket?"
Like this" said Louis, and he lifted
the pocket flap of a reporter, stuck two
fingers in and drew forth two nickels and
a dime.
Il find you guilty" said Justice Hovt
and III remand you to the Gerry society
The Night and Day bank on Fifth ava
nue. which announced that its doors would
always be open, Sundays and HOLIDAYS ex-
from midnight until a. m. There was
practically no business offered during the
small hours of night and those who did
come for money then were usually better
off without II.
The bank has run nearly two years. and
has made considerable money in that time
The Rollins case was not known nor
haps, to the Kenosha (Wis) women who
reached New York Friday on the IusI
tania, for one of them thought she couId
; fool Collector Loebs inspectors by con-
J oealing $1,000 worth of jewelry In a chamoIs
; bag carried under her skirt The woman
; turns out to be one of the most prominent
, and wealthy in Wisconsin, her husband be-
= Ing director of the leather trust and
the head of the biggest tannery in the
= world.
Openings for Young COIlegIans,
Philadelphia Ledger
I Tho president, in his commencement al