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tends such functions in the old world, 1t
seemed to me that / was in a dream. No
armed guards, no ceremony, no delay or
oppressive etiquette-a large, airy and
comfortable room Is the Presidents office,
and as for President Taft. / go home his
liege forever He was delightful. He
knew SO much of my uncle's hopes and
ambitions and he spoke SO reverently and
kindly. 1t will be a memory to cheer my
declining days. Then l went to the man.
sion so simple and homelike. vision
came before me of the long suites OF state
apartments in the old world. those pal
aces of royalty, with hundreds of dark
ened rooms, where no child ever laughs.
no happy hearts beat. and grim armed
men stand like specters in the half twf-
light. Such q contrast, only four or five
staterooms in the White House and those
flowers and bright. healthy-looking potted
plants. with photos in frames smiling
down from mantels and tables. and every
indication of a happy and useful exist
ence. The White House seemed to typify
the hope and life and prosperity OF the
nation, and this incident alone makes
my visit to America worth while.
This same simplicity and organized
routine met me at every turn. A nation
which stands like a massive rock against
old-time oppression manages It's affairs
openly and without the crushing etiquette
OF the more ancient races and its doors
are wide spread that all may come in
and learn its ways. I had delightful
visit to the Capitol and met many of the
powerful leaders. but Of the kindly and
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the temptation to feed the baby let her
stick to the following articles OF diet,
which can hardly cause it TO become i'll:
Soft-boiled eggs: strained broths OF beef.
mutton and chicken, containing small
pieces Of stale or teasted bread: stale
bread or toast with milk: hominy cooked
six hours with milk; oatmeal o. rice
cooked three hours with milk: cornmeai
Cooked two hours) with milk: farina
Cooked one hour with milk The milk
should be boiled unless ii is certified
milk. Do not feed meat, vegetables.
candy, popcorn. sugar. bananas or any
thing else unless told TO do SO by q
physician.
Then. finally. there might be compiled
a sort of ten commandments for the
mother, something as follows:
l. Give the baby its food at regular
hours.
2 Give the baby water.
3. Give the baby no medicine unless
prescribed by the doctor.
4. Give the baby a tub bath every day.
5. Do not put warmer clothes on the
baby in the summer than you wear your
g. Keep a window open night and day
in the baby's room. Colds come from
closed windows. not from open ones.
Z. II the baby does not gain weight soe
the doctor. Something is wrong.
g. Do not rock the baby TO sleep. Put
it down and let it cry itself to sleep.
9. Boil all milk before giving 1t to the
baby.
10. II you cannot employ a doctor apply
to the nearest police station.
These and the many other vital things
that go to the keeping of baby In health
are merely matters of common sense.
The mother of a healthy baby is always
a sensible woman. If the baby 10 not
healthy. in nine cases out OF ten II Is the
fault of the care, for nine out OF ten
babies are normally healthy. Most babies
wear too many clothes You see every
where on hot days babies wearing flannel
petticoats and Jackets. Yet the mothers
do not wear them. The babies are suf-
fering terribly. The question OF cleanli.
ness is up to the mother. and filth is the
greatest breeder of disease.
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Latest in Dinner Kettles.

S<W e Americans are an up-to-date
w lot" said Wilbur Wright in an
after-dinner speech in Dayton.
Mr.. Wright smiled.
THE other morning in New York" he
resumed. las I was driving out Broadway
with a friend. 1 saw my friends book
keeper hurrying along with spare part
Of a Gnome motor in his hand.
Hello said, 7 didn't know your
bookkeeper could afford to go in for fly
ing!
flush! He can't said my friend.
That's his lunch, but he doesn't want
ANYBODY to know it."
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these shores. AS years are going by
swiftly this seemed the most appropriate
time to make my journey.
To say that my most optimistic dream
has been realized is but a feeble express
sion of my enthusiasm. My remembrance
of the capital and of American life was
getting haZy, and to renew my friendship
with old scenes under such delightful cir
cumstances is well worth the long tour.
The simplicity of American life in the
governmental sense appeals most power
fully. When 1 went to the White House
office. that modest building, and walked
into the presence of the chief executive
of the greatest nation on earth today
without any of the ceremonial which at
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The Graduates Revision.

HTHEsE young college A. BIS think
they know everything"
The speaker was a western detective.
Seated in a San Francisco restaurant, he
resumed:
"A Leland Stanford boy, just about to
graduate, took me to task the other day
about a bank robbery. He showed me
where my reasoning had been wrong.
but you'll do better he ended. Don't
lose heart. One Is never too old to
learn
oh, you sweet girl and boy graduates
have revised that proverb.' 1 sneered. 1t
reads noW-one is never too young to
teach
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us in the star-strewn mantle of ro-
nance
But once in a while we want to take a
day and make it different-so that we
may remember great moments by it.
great moments that have made great
religions and great nations, and great
moments Of our own whose magic touch
has frightened and ennobled all our
years
You just watch us sensible women grab
every little holiday we can get our hands
on and pet it almost to death and keep
it all warm and cozy and cuddled up in
the hearts Of US.
That dear little thing is going to help
US keep our own dear man folks remind
ed, every once in a while, that we are
still alive.
Copyright. 1911, by Charlotte c. Rowett)
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THERE Are Hundreds of

THERE Are Hundreds of
1 Thousands of Babies
That Die Unnecessarily in
the United States Every
Year-The Great Mass of
These Deaths Could Be Pre-
vented by the Simple Ex-
pedient of Teaching Mothers
How to Feed Their Babies
A World Campaign to This
End Is On-It Is in the
Power of Any Intelligent
Man or Woman to Save
Scores of Lives-Are You
Busy With More Important
Things?
Copyright. 1911. by W. A. Du Puy.)
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where every effort was made to gain ad-
herentS to his cause. kossuth made one
of the greatest speeches of his life from
the platform of the House, an honor never
nor since before granted q non-member OF
the House of Representatives. That same
evening Gen. Rufus King. Vice President
of the United States, and Linn Boyd,
Speaker of the House, gave a banquet to
Kossuth which was attended by nearly a
hundred guests. including the President
and all his cabinet and such members OF
the House and Senate as could best aid
his cause. Among the methods employed
to raise funds for the Hungarian cause
was the issuing of dollar bill anticipat-
ing the currency of free Hungary. and
these were bought avidly by the sym
pathizers and were made redeemable
when Hungary should at last achieve
its Independence Some of these old bills
are now in the possession of Washing
tonians who were present at the great
ovation or who have inherited the relic
from their ancestors.
**
Nine. Ambrozovics arrived in this coun-
during the first week of May and Will
remain until the middle Of June. when she
sails for Mediterranean ports. She VIII
return directly to her home in Budapest
Her advanced age prevented her making
prolonged visit or from travelling
through the north. west and middle west,
where so many of her country people
have found good homes and prosperous
avocations. She visited the Norfolk navy
yard as the guest of her cousin. who is
the wife OF Capt. Alfred Reynolds. Q. S.
N. She came to Washington from Norfolk
and remained in Washington about a
week, and every moment was filled by
the cOurtesies of friends and of prom
inent officials. Her escort from Norfolk
and during her visit here was Chaplain
Roswell Randall Hoes, L. S. N, and he
and Mrs. Hoes invited a few friends to
meet the distinguished guest at dinner
May IA. One OF the most delightful Incl
dents Of her visit was trip to Mount
Vernon.
which makes up the dignified society
Of the Regents of Mount Vernon was in
session when the venerable Hungarian
reached Washington. AS Mrs. Hoes Is
member Of that board. she Immediately
extended an invitation. Nine. Ambro-
zovics passed an entire day at the home
of the first patriot.
ITO visit the tomb Of this wonderful
man was one of the reasons why came
to this country" she said. "and placed
INV tribute of reverence and affection
within the rail which screens the mauso-
leum-a wreath of violets and immor-
telles. have made q profound study of
the life and character of Washington, as
did my revered uncle. He thought him
the grandest character. whose deeds shed
luster, of all the ages, and I share this
opinion. The nation which he founded
is his best epitaph. and I rejoice to find
him so revered and his home the object
Of such loving care. After the regents OF
this sacred spot had shown me the most
attention and courtesy they pre-
sented me with two small urns in which
was growing ivy which entwines the
tomb with never-fading wreath OF green.
It shall be my loving task to take this
IVY fresh and vigorous to my home and to
keep 1t as one OF the cherished memen-
tos of my journey"
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countrywomen and TO the general dif-
fusion of knowledge. Her husband,
Bella Ambrozovics. died in 1905. he
had been a DISTINGUISHED publicist, and
she was a materi; factor in his sue
cessful career. Already a scientist OF
recognized ability before his marriage.
his union with this cultured, highly
spirited and patriotic woman led him
to take an active part in the upbuild-
ing of his country. He held many
positions of note. and at the time or
his death he was chief councillor to the
Hungarian ministry of commerce.
This gave Nine. Ambrozovics an op-
portuntty to study and to aid the in
PRODUCTION of more advanced and prac-
tical methods of agriculture in the vast
farming land which surrounds Buda-
Pest Nearly all of her American life
was spent in New York city. and she
attended a famous private school of
those days. Here Mime. Ambrozovics
attained rare facility Of writing and
speaking English. She is likewise as
gifted in French. and since her return
to Hungary has mastered German,
Hungarian, Servish and some dialects
of the Slavs and Slovecks. She has
been q successful writer of children's
stories in the Hungarian tongue and
writes always with q moral OF patriot
ism or industry. She is also a skill
full water color artist, and made some
pretty sketches during her visit here.
Il find much sympathy felt for the
women Of my country-that 10, a SYM
pathetic interest I'm their welfare-that
/ have been making a few talks on
the theme. though nothing was farther
removed from my mind when I came
here. But Americans like to learn
their facts at first hand. and had 90
many questions to answer that I
thought 1T simpler to reply by an IN
formal chat.
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welcome accorded Louis Kossuth in the
capital and could give day and date and
names illustrious. to be sure, but growing
unfamiliar in the recorded events of to-
day. kossuth, said his niece, came to
America after the downfall of the revo-
luton to raise money to continue his
work for the independence Of Hungary.
He arrived In Washington in December.
1852, and so deep was the sympathy for
him and his cause that two members of
the United States Senate and the marshal
of the District of Columbia met him at
the station and conducted him to his
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CHE Is Making a Senti-
~ mental Journey Through
the Country and Visiting the
Places Endeared Through
the Memory of Her Illus
trous Kinsman-Has Been
From Her Early Girlhood a
Deep Student of Political
Afairs-The Daughter of
DIR. Rudolph Mezlenyi, a
Lawyer and Agriculturist of
Budapest, and of Sussannah
Kossuth, Sister of the Hun
garian Leader, and Widow of
Bella Ambrozovics, a Distin-
guished Scientist.
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the Senate chamber, accompanied by
Senators Lewis Cass and William III. Sew
ard, a burst of applause broke from the
disnifed statesmen. Gen. James Shields,
fresh from the victories gained in Mexico
and then representing Minnesota in the
upper house. presented Kossuth to his col
leagues and made a rousing speech, ex-
planning his mission. He was presented
to every member of the Senate and spent
several hours with them and formed
friendships which lasted to the end Of his
eventful life. He then went to the House,
where similar scenes were enacted and
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By Margaret B. Downing.

o T W ITHSTAND-
ING tho walls that
this Is the age OF
materialism and
I h at sentiment
and idealism have
no place in the
rush and strain Of
modern life, the
presence OF the
niece Of the heroic
Kossuth is an elo-
quent denial to
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sympathetic men who welcomed my
uncle and whom 1 knew in my early girl
hood. of course. not one Is left. But the
spirit is unchanged and the reverence
and affection which l find for all who
struggle to attain the highest in civic
and religious liberty inspires one to hope
much of the future"
Nine. Ambrozovics Possesses a wonder
full memory and she knows every detail
of her uncle's. reception in this country.
She dwelt frequently on the remarkable
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Asst year 400, OK,
babies died In the
nit e d States.
Health authorities
speak of 1t as the
."black year" The
summer months
June, July and Au-
gust - were the
period of frightfui
mortality. These
months are always
the time of year
as. Th asa ~ nvpf h0
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hostelry. Daniel Webster, Secretary
of State. called upon him Immediately
and made arrangements to present him
to President Millard Fillmore.
This ceremony occurred on the last day
of December, 1852. Five days later Kos
suth was accorded one Of the most extra
ordinary receptions ever given a for
eigner by the United States Senate. That
august body adjourned for the ceremony
and when the Hungarian patriot entered
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Pity the PIutocrat.

JEROME s. McWADE. the Duluth cap
J italist. uttered a bonmot at a socialist
picnic last month.
Gentlemen" he said. ''be not too hard
on the plutocrat. His life is not all bee-
and skittleo-he doesn't play skittles."
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your best clothes. hush right up and
put a quarter in the contribution box.
and big league ball games; time
when, in our large centers OF civiliza-
ton, people are permitted to go without
collar from sunrise to sunset, sit with
their feet on the porch railing and con-
sumo things out of the ice box.
But you take holiday and a woman
can have a perfectly lovely time.
She has been planning about 1t for
days and days. in the first place: has
built a batch of sugar cookies snG a
chocolate cake; she has put Annater 8
best white dress into commission and
seen to it that Gordons Russian blouse
suit looks as cute as 1t can be.
1t doesn't bother her a bit IL James
is going to be that next day just as
soon as ever he wakes up in the morn
ing.
He doesn't have to wake up early
either. And when he does and she does
and the children do, they get up and
dress as if they had all the time there
is on earth. and then they have the
most hilarious breakfast! They have
ham and eggs, too. no matter how much
1t costs. None of that liver at ten a
pound and breakfast food. nine hundred
and ninety-nine dishes for nineteen cents
well, should say not!
James looks at his dimly remembered
wife across the breakfast table and comes
to with q start. "Gracious." says James,
'it seems good to be able to sit here
and talk and not have to hustle right
out Seems to me I don't have time to
say a word other mornings. Gee. you
look fine today!"
And then she gets a bit blushifed and
declares. Now don't be so silly-old
married folks like u.s." but she Is pleas
ed clear down to the very heart OF hers,
because this is exactly what she has
been planning ever since the last holf-
day breakfast that James would may
be think to say to her at the next
holiday breakfast. And here he actually
did say 1t the very first thing
Then they all hurry up and dress-the
entire family. mind you-and father keeps
on remembering this nice wife of his
and his wife Is as pleased. Why, that's
what she has been hoping and hoping
for ever since that last holiday when
he had time to think!
Then they see the parade. and after
ward they eat their dinner in the park
II 1t Is warm weather sort OF a holi-
day. 1t is . perfectly lovely ride out
to the park on the street cars even II 1t
is as crowded as II can be, because
everybody is SO smily and all the women
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are so pleased because their man folks
have remembered them. They meet lots
and lots of their friends out in the PARK: PARK:
too and the men say about MY wife.
how My wife says to me this morning,
and my wife and I are going to the
theater together tonight. just as proud
and not a single word about the of1ce
or the iron works or why is a stock
market or whence do we get steel
situation or anything like that. And
isn't that worth having holiday ar
ranged for any time?
OF course, lots Of people say that holi-
DAYS are arranged to celebrate something.
That some time somebody did something
we'll worth doing and extremely noble,
and it made a country stand firm against
adversely and its enemies: or that some
body did something that planted great
religious truth deep down in the hearts of
the people.
This is beautiful thought. and 1
haven't a doubt in the world that it is
one of the very best reasons why we
started having holidays In the first place.
But It isn't the only reason why we keep
them up. You can't have too many good
reasons for a good thing. and 1t doesn't
hurt q holiday a bit II the big public.
man. fashion reason for 1t isn't the only
one we women know about.
We want a day when our man folks
may be at liberty to think about their
families as things to take solid comfort
in and not merely to earn an energetic
remind them about things we used to do,
about how we used to be ourselves.
We want to be able to say. Don't you
remember that Christmas''-or New Year
or Fourth OF July or 17th Of March
when we two were just married, and
how we went out to dinner all alone. just
we two, and when we met and what we
said and how we laughed, and then how
we came home together. just we two,
under the starshine. and were SO happy
Don't you remember" we want to
say to them. "oh. don't you remember"
Don't you remember when she wasn't
your housekeeper. but your sweetheart.
and when she grew so wonderful because
she became the mother Of your son?
Don't you remember when you were
out Of a job and broke, that Christmas
or New Year or Fourth OF July or 18th
of March-and how she heartened you
up and got q holiday dinner out Of just
almost nothing at all. and kissed you
and petted you and said how you were
going to do fine'-said 1t so proudly
that you took heart and went out and
dragged q Job from the very air. 1t
seemed to you. and actually did do
fine?
We women cannot keep a-tiptoe on the
heights all the time. every day cannot
be . wonder day. every night can't wrap
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n hen babies die like flies. These months
are now upon US. and the horror of the
last season is expected to repeat itself.
In 1909, the last year for which census
figures are complete. there were 2aS,OOO
baby deaths. In that year the death rate
was higher than ever before. But in 1910
1t jumped 40 per cent in many big cities
In Philadelphia it increased A. per cent
for given summer periods. So it is indi-
Gated that baby mortality Is increasing
in the United States.
There are ten babies die unnecessarily
to every death of man. woman or child
from typhoid fever in this country. There
are 80 per cent more deaths among
babies than from sufferers from tuber-
culosis of all ages. A baby dies some
where in the civilized world every ten
seconds There are 100000 civilized
babies that die every year. Seventy per
cent of these deaths are unnecessary.
Common sense and cleanliness would
save these lives. If all the milk that
babies drink the world around were boiled
half the number would be saved. This
simple expedient would save enough
youngsters every year to make a city
like Philadelphia or Chicago. In ten
years it would replace all the population
in the United States west OF the Missis-
sippi 1t would save one baby of your
acquaintance this summer and one each
summer as long as you live.
The baby was discovered in Paris by
DR.. Budin in 1890. A knowledge of it by
even great physicians Is therefore COM
paratively recent thing. Before the time
OF Dr. Budin the baby was a mysterious
thing born to many tribulations and to
die. Thirty per cent of the babies in
Paris were dying, and France needed
babies. DR.. Budin has shown France now
to keep the baby from dying. England
has adopted his methods and eventually
ii has spread to the United States. Today
a score of the big cities OF the United
States have found the baby and are
endeavoring to give it intelligent care.
The surface has yet but been
scratched. But the public Is awaken
ing. Last fall the American Associa-
tion for the Study and Prevention Of
Infant Mortality held it's first national
convention in Baltimore. 1t intends to
make itself a clearing house for infor-
nation for all the country. 1t will
tell any city or any community in the
nation how to reduce it's baby death
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bRuIGIN9 Tie BABES To The. DSPEN5ARY
For PURE, MIIt< AND ADVICE

net the money to buy it. the milk is siver
to them. A baby is considered to be
worth more than the price of a few
quarts of milk
munity are asked to come together on
consultation day. They meet the doctor
and the trained nurse. They bring their
babies. The doctor examines each of
these each week and makes record of
it's condition. The scale Is the chief fac
tor In the examination. If a baby is
normal 1t will have gained weight each
week. II it has not done this something
is wrong and its case requires looking in
to. The doctor and the nurse together
give demonstration of the proper man
ner of bathing and dressing a baby. One
OF the babies is used as a demonstration.
The mothers are shown their mistakes In
the clothing that their babies are wear
ing. A further demonstration is given of
the proper manner of preparing milk for
babies. 1t is all very simple and any
mother may learn 1t readily. No mother
comes half dozen times to consultation
without learning a great deal about the
proper care OF the baby.
There are mothers who through false
pride or timidity will not come to con-
sultation. Perhaps their babies are 50
They are sensitive of their very igno-
rance. Here is an additional task for the
trained nurse. She ferrets out these tim
id mothers. She goes ito their homes
ana tedcneS 1nom the CnlNSS IHey SnOulu
know about their babies. She visits all
the homes and shows the mothers the
mistakes they are making there. One
nurse is able to call upon all mothers of
small babies in a community of consider
able size.
In New York the work has gone a
step further and the training is be-
ing extended to those little girls Of the
tenements who are literally their sis
ters' and brothers keepers. Lessons
and practical demonstrations on live
babies of the best ways to feed and
bathe and care for their little charges
were given in the public schools late
in the spring by physicians and trained
nurses. and continued during the hot
days of the summer at the recreation
piers and summer Fairgrounds.
AS a result Of these lectures, what IS
known as the League of Little Mothers
was organized among the little foster
mothers of New York city. And though
the name does not appear In the register of
the General Federation OF Women's
Clubs, or on the roster Of the Congress
of Mothers. the new organization bids
fair to revolutionize conditions some of
these days. The health department sup
plies the certificates of membership in