Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-28

TN4IW room was an electric light.
kN0AIyM cased In red bulb Six times
MNlllN1M minute-7,640 times a day-the
E>fNXeA light went out; and, every time
G. ~ II the light faded the bulb.
somewhere in the world. the light
faded from q mothers eyes So fast do chill
dren die
Sometimes they die faster. They died faster
last summer II babies kept DIARIES last
would go down in the annals of the survivors
a the black of 1910" In the single
city of New York, S73 died in a single week
Every little street had it's little white hearse-
worse still. durin gthe course of the summer,
5000 children died that ought to have lived; that
is to say, they died from preventabIe causes
Children die from two kinds of causes; those
that preFentabe and those that not This
is news. Your grandmother and possibly. your
mother believed that every child that died could
not have been saved Everybody thought
Preventable causes of deaths were not recognized.
1t was taken matter of course that women
should bear twice many children
quired maintain the population because
of them bound to die
We stin let half of the children die but we
kno better. We know they need not die. We
know they were born to live We know that
they do not have chance to live We have even
exploded the old supposition that the children of
the physically weak must of necessity be physical
iy weak We know that the children of the
the child OF the strongest
Every intelligent physician knows this
statement to be true. However let
some eminent physician stand for it,
Caleb w Saieeby. one of the most emf ~
nent physicians In England, such
authority. Read what ne says on the II
subject In "Parenthood and Race Gull ~.
ture":
Most of the babies born in the cums
are splendid little specimens of humanity-so far
as physique is concerned-bearing no marks OF
degeneration to correspond with the deterioration
OF their parents. In a word, hereditory works
start" eSn
In another part of the same book DR.. Saleeby
estimated that the number of children who are
have ch1nc
life does not exceed per cent; and he attri-
buted the weakness of these effects of aIco-
hol and certain impoIite diseases upon one or
both of their parents
Having fundamental facts that meet
with general acceptance among the enlightened.
proceed to seek to the ques
ton. why children permitted to die from
preventable causes and what those prevent
able causes?'
born strong enough to live under favorable
circumstances killed by their mothers. The
rest that die from preventable causes killed
by the comnunity-by you and by me. if We help
to keep things they are and by everybody
else who helps to keep things as they are
We will first consider the mothers who kill
their children Every mother kills to
kill her children who does not take the trouble
to inform herself concerning the proper methods
of child rearing 1t is not that such mothers
lazy. 1t is not that they Indifferent to
their chiidren's welfare. They simply ig-
norant. Some of them stepped in ignorance.
Some of them haIfsteeped But they all
ignorant. They don't know that flies, by carrying
the germs of diseases, kill more children than all
the elephants tigers, lions, automobiles and street
in the world Therefore, flies considered
mere inconvenierces. They regarded un-
ornamental in the soup. but not detrimental to
the health. TAey in the kitchen. the
pantry and the dining room. painstakingly deposit
ing their filth upon every particle of food that the
family, including the children. eat. Some of this
Nth is not deafNy; of 1t is But such
ignorant motfNer ever connects in her mind the
going of her be1sg with the coming of the flies.
Nor does any such ignorant mother have any
conception OF the with which she should
feed. not only her baby. but her half-grown chill
dren- If she doesn't her baby she doesn't
realize that any milk she is likely find for
does she realize that such milk will be precisely
as poisonous for her baby after it beer
weaned- Such mothers usually buy their milk
from the nearest grocery store. The number OF
bacteria in milk. when it exceeds 100000 the
cubic centimefer, makes the milk UNFIT for use
Yet, some analyses of New York store milk. the
other day. showed bacteria high IS. 900 900
What wonder that every summer is BLACK sum
mer' for the babies of New York's poor?
In many other ways. the ignorant mother Kill:
her children with che food she gives them. Man,
a baby six months old is nibbling crackers
bananas and pickles while putting in the rest o
its time at an Halliday sucker stick of candy
Mothers who want their children live shoult
know that the premature giving of any kind o
solid food a baby is exceedingly dangerous
that after child is should be giveI
lions of intelligent physician: that meat AND
fruit Except orange jufce) like mucl
poison, If they do not produce death a
quickly as strychnine would that all durin,
childhood the food should be simple, with cereals
milk and vegetables basis and little mea