Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-11-17

lYDNW room an electric light e
WVAI)M cased In red bulb Six times
, Mnl4llM minute -7.640 times day-tt
EfNXf<A Hight went out; and. every tim
e. ~ y the light faded from the bull
somewhere in the world the ligt
faded from mothers eyes. SO fast do our chi
dren die
Sometimes they Gle faster They died taste
last summer. II babies kept diaries, last summe
would go down In the annals OF the survivor
as the black summer of 1910" In the singi
city OF New York. 873 died In single weeA
Every little poor street had It's little white hearse
worse still, durfn gthe OF the summer
o,VOO children died that ought to have lived; tina
is to say they died from preventabe causes
Children die from two kinds OF causes; thos
that are preventabIe and those that are not Thi
IL news Your grandmother and possibly you
mother believed that every child that died cout
not have been saved Everybody thought Sc
Preventable causes OF deaths we're not recognized
IL was taken as a matter OF that womeI
should bear twice as many children as were re
CURED to maintain the population, because hal
OF them were bound to die
We still let half OF the children die but W.
know better. We know they need not die Wa
know they were born to live We know thai
they do not have chance to live We have even
exploded the old superstition that the children oil
the physically weak must OF necessity be physical
y weak We now know that the children of the
M
the child OF the strongest
Every intelligent physician knows this
statement to be true However let
Bone eminent physician stand for IT,
Caleb w Saleeby. OF the most emf ~
nent physicians In England. is such an
an authority. Read what he says on the Il
subject In "Parenthood and Race Gull W
turc":
Most OF the babies born in the clums
are splendid little specimens OF humanity-so far
es physique Is concerned--bearng no marks or
degeneration TO correspond with the deterioration
OF their parents In word. hereditory works
start"
In another part OF the same book DR.. saieeby
estimated that the number OF children who are
born so weak that they have little chance for
life does not exceed ten per cent: and he attri-
buted the weakness OF these to the effects OF alco-
hol and certain impote diseases upon one or
both OF their parents
Having now some fundamental facts that meet
with general acceptance among the enlightened
We may proceed to seek to the ques-
ton, Why are children permitted to die from
preveutable causes and what are those prevent
able causes?"
We need not go far Millions OF children that
are born strong enough to live under favorable
circumstances are killed by their mothers The
rest that die from preventable causes are killed
by the community--by you and by me- ii we help
to keep things they are. and by everybody
else who helps to keep things they
We will first consider the mothers who Kill
their children. Every mother kills or tends to
kill her children who does not take the trouble
to inform herself concerning the proper methods
OF child rearing. Ii is not that such mothers
are lazy II is not that they Indifferent to
their chdrens welfare They are simply ig-
norant Some of them are stepped In Ignorance
Some OF them are half-steeped But they are all
les
the germs Of diseases. kill more children than all
the elephants, tigers. lions, automobiles and street
cars In the world Therefore. flies are considered
mere Inconvenience They are regarded as un
Ia the soup, but not detrimental TO
the health They In the kitchen. the
ne their nth upon every particle of food that the
amily, including the children. eat Some OF this
ilth Is not deadly; OF It is but such
enorant mother ever connects In her mind the
'ong OF her baby with the coming OF the nes
Nor does any such ignorant mother nave any
OF the care with which she should
eed. not only her baby, but her hals-grown chill
ren II she aoesnt nurse her baby she doesn't
eaiize that sny milk she is likely TO find tor
ale is more likely to be poison than food Nor
oes she realize that such milk will be precisely
Is poisonous for her baby after II has beer
fcaned Such mothers usually buy their milk
rom the nearest grocery store The number OF
ubic centimeter makes the milk unit Tor use
ct analyses OF Nav York store milk. the
Their day, showed bacteria az high as Ss.o00Uoo
phat wonder that every summer 10 black sum
Ter" Tor the babies OF New forS's poory
,E many other ways. the ignorant mother Kills
err children with the food she gives them Many
baby six months old Is nibbling crackers
ananas aud pickles. while putting IN the rest OF
s time at an -aliday sucker OF a stics OF candy
others who want their children to 1--we should
bow that the premature giving OF any kind OF
lid food to baby Is exceedingly dangeroes,
IA after child is weaned II should he given
lid food only 10 accordance with the instruc-
ona % an intelligent physician, that meat and
uit texcept orange iuiee) are Ike SO much.
bison. even II they do moi produce death as
iickly stryehnine would. and that all during
,i.dhood. she food should be ample With cereals.
lib and vegetables basis and little meat
II eftener than once weak
But. chsfd-silier. the community exceeds
destructlyeness even the ignorant mother. by
Ia "a meant that the community maintains
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