Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-01-10
MOTHER|NG LESSONS
IN ENGLISH SCHOOL
LIVE BABY ENGAGED AS SUBJECT
FOR SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND.
SCHOOL.
Hospital Nurse lnstruets Pupils Over
II How to Battle, clothe and
Feed Him and to Distinguish
Different Cries.

A novel subject of absorbing interest
has been added to the curriculum OF
High cliff school for girls. Scarbor-
ough. II may be called 'Mothering.
practical and theoretical"
real live baby has been engaged
as the subject" while a trained
nurse from Queen Charlotte Hospital.
London. explains To the pupils the
best way to battle and clothe baby and
generally how To he good mother.
Girls mast be l. or over To enter
this class. Eight girls at present
take part in the lesson. which may
follow such dun subjects as 'arithmet-
ic" or algebra"
Each girl takes her turn in looking
after the baby-a plump little girl.
aged Is weeks. They are taught by
the nurse the following subjects:
How to battle baby.
Scientific feeding and hygiene
Cooking for the home
How To detect baby's illnesses.
Every little duty which the care
full mother has TO attend To in the
home is taught the girls by the trained
nurse.
able tip in the art Of mothering:
How To tell. by the way baby cries.
why il cries and where the trouble
is. To distinguish the "teething' cry
from the stomach cry. the pin
cry. etc.
Throughout the lessons the subject
baby at the High Cliff school. has
been a model infant II is loved by
everyone.
How mothers and fathers are to
be taught the care of children" is the
real subject of the conference OF
health promoting institutions" TO be
opened by the lord mayor at the Guild
Hall on December s.
II will last two days, and has been
organized by the National League for
Physical Education and Improvement
Muriel Niscountess Helmsley will
speak about day nurseries. and Lady
Meyer will relate the history OF the
school for mothers at St Pancras. OF
which she is vice president
Miss Evelyn Bunting. one Of the
honorary secretaries. yesterday show
ed the Daily Mirror over this mothers
school. which is in ChaltOn Street.
EustOn Road. and vas founded three
years ago.
A large class of young mothers was
being instructed in the bathing of
babies. while infants and children I'M
der were being tended and amused
/ i'm other rooms.
Three lady doctors give advice and
instruction free. The women pay a
penny a week if they can afford it.
and their babies are weighed free
The aim of the school is to instruct
mothers for year with their first
babies. BY that time they should
know enough 10 bring up the largest
families satisfactorily.
Cooking is taught not only nj the
school, but i'm the women's homes.
which a Pudding Lady" visits to
show how. the cheapest materials can
be made the most of with the mean
est appliances
Every day twenty mothers. on the
average. dine at the school. which
is called The Welcome The cost
amounts to a little over two pence
a head, and the women pay one and
half pence if they have it-they
gladly pay unless they are penniless
Prize competitions for babies have
not been found altogether successful
at st. Pancras" said Miss Bunting.
unless every mother gets a prize.
The losers feel il too keenly London
Daily Mirror